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Library Journal: “Offer Carrick’s excellent duology starter to fans of Leigh Bardugo’s The Familiar or anyone looking for a new historical fantasy series.”

We’re over the Sanctuary Moon to announce that the newest Murderbot Diaries book – PLATFORM DECAY – by Martha Wells landed at #8 on the New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestseller list and reached #9 on the Combined Print and E-book list! It also came in at #8 on the USA Today list and #6 on the National Indie Bestseller list! Congratulations, Martha!

Publishers Weekly: Underdogs abound in this scrappy, series-launching historical fantasy from Carrick (the Rook and Rose trilogy), the pseudonym for Marie Brennan and Alyc Helms. The authors pit a displaced human and the faerie changeling left in her stead against a Spanish colonial empire bent on conquering both the New World and the faerie realm of the Sea Beyond. The human protagonist, called the Hungry Girl for her need to eat regularly, unlike her fae captors, was sent to the […]

Publishers Weekly: This engrossing psychological thriller from Pashley (The Watcher) finds 25-year-old budding chef Brett Novak heartbroken, out of work, and down to seven dollars in her bank account. She’s delighted and relieved when a former colleague recommends her for a temporary job as a personal chef for bestselling mystery author Carson Smart. She arrives at Smart’s beautiful, secluded beachfront property on Cape Cod in high spirits, but nothing prepares her for his offer of $20,000 for two weeks of […]

Kirkus: Two veteran authors join forces under a pseudonym to launch a series about a wildly unlikely amateur sleuth. Mo Ellery never wanted to get involved in detection. All she wanted was to hold on to her live-in boyfriend and keep her job at a Chicago marketing agency. After losing both within a few minutes of each other (the losses are connected, but you’ll never guess how), she moves to downscale Buffalo Park and takes the only job she can […]

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).