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Jackie Dinas and Alexandra Sunshine at Kensington acquired, in a four-book deal, North American rights to the Fallen series by Melissa K. Roehrich (pictured l.) from Katie Shea Boutillier. The series, per the publisher, “is a sweeping enemies-to-lovers romantasy epic that follows a royal heiress and a vengeful warrior forced into uneasy proximity as they embark on a dangerous quest to recover a lost dragon egg—one prophesied to save their dying realm.” The first book is scheduled to publish in fall 2027.

Congratulations to all the DMLA authors named as finalists in the 2026 Hugo Awards! Best Novel A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscape) Best Novelette “Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy” by Martha Wells (Reactor, July 10, 2025) Best Short Story “In My Country” by Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld, Issue 223) Best Series The Chronicles of Osreth by Katherine Addison (Tor US; Solaris UK; Subterranean) White Space by Elizabeth Bear (Saga Press; Gollancz) Best Related Work Inventing the Renaissance by […]

Locus:  “A rich and provocative exploration of how and why we relate to art at all — and how it informs the ways we relate to each other.”

The 2026 Locus Award Finalists were announced and we’re thrilled to see so many DMLA authors included! SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS The Folded Sky, Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz) FANTASY NOVELS The Tomb of Dragons, Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris UK) A Drop of Corruption, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscape) Queen Demon, Martha Wells (Tor) HORROR NOVELS The Library at Hellebore, Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire; Titan UK) FIRST NOVELS A Song of Legends Lost, M.H. Ayinde (Orbit UK; Saga) NOVELLAS The Orb of […]

Audio rights to Robert McCammon’s SHOPPE OF OLDE CURIOSITIES, a short story collection, to Louise Quayle at Audible by Katie Shea Boutillier at Donald Maass Literary Agency, for Cameron McClure (World English).

Catalan rights to Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction winner Vajra Chandrasekera’s RAKESFALL, to Chronos, by Elena Rodríguez at International Editors & Yáñez Co’ S.L. in association with Michael Curry. Czech rights to Katherine Addison’s THE GRIEF OF STONES to Dobrovsky, by Nada Popovic at Prava I Prevodi, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure. French rights to Seamus Sullivan’s DAEDALUS IS DEAD to  Elysande, by Sarah Dray at Anna Jarota Agency, on behalf of Katie Shea […]

Historian at University of Chicago and award-winning author of INVENTING THE RENAISSANCE Ada Palmer’s untitled book on censorship, unpacking our many false assumptions about what it is and how it operates, and providing a roadmap for thoughtful resistance, based in part on a museum exhibit and series of films exploring censorship during information revolutions, to Dan Gerstle at Norton, in a pre-empt, for World excluding the UK, by Cameron McClure.

Bridget Morrissey, Emily Wibberley, and Austin Siegemund-Broka writing as E.B. Asher’s LAST NIGHT IN LYRIS, pitched as The Hangover meets THE ATLAS SIX, in which three magical university dropouts might be the only ones who can save the school and the city from a curse that’s been cast the night before graduation—if they can remember what they did last night, to Priyanka Krishnan at Avon, for publication in fall 2027, by Taylor Haggerty at Root Literary for Morrissey and Katie […]

Booklist: “…one of his very best: a story that pulls readers deeply in with a consuming dread that becomes almost unbearable. Truly a magnificent work of horror fiction.”

Congratulations to all the DMLA authors whose titles were named a GoodReads Editor’s Top Genre Pick for the past five years! Fantasy MAD SISTERS OF ESI by Tashan Mehta METAL FROM HEAVEN by august clarke THE STARSEEKERS by Nicole Glover THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS by Vajra Chandrasekera Horror THE REFORMATORY by Tananarive Due