Donald Maass Literary Agency

Audio rights to Elizabeth Sims’s RITA FARMER MYSTERIES, YOU’VE GOT A BOOK IN YOU, and TIGHT RACE, to Kim Budnick at Tantor Media, in a five-book deal, by Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure.

French rights to British Fantasy Award finalist Cassandra Khaw’s NOTHING BUT BLACKENED TEETH and THE ALL-CONSUMING WORLD, to Pygmalion, by Zuzanna Brzezinska at Anna Jarota Agency in association with Michael Curry. French rights to Robert Jackson Bennett’s CITY OF STAIRS and LOCKLANDS, to Gilles Dumay at Albin Michel, by Zuzanna Brzezinska at Anna Jarota Agency, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure. German rights to Annika Martin’s JUST NOT THAT INTO BILLIONAIRES to Lyx, by Sarah Knofius at […]

Congratulations to Premee Mohamed for being nominated as a 2021 Aurora Award finalist! Best Novel Beneath the Rising, Premee Mohamed, Solaris

Publishers Weekly: Starling captivates and horrifies by turn in this intricately plotted, deliciously bonkers secondary world gothic fantasy…. Starling’s magic system is so spookily and fully realized, and the final twist so brilliantly turns the novel on its head, that even the most skeptical will be won over. This proves impossible to put down.

Tor.com: It’s been almost one long year since Network Effect dropped, and let’s face it: the world is ready for more Murderbot. Dry wit, misanthropy, and space adventures are promises delivered in full in this month’s 6th installment of Martha Wells’ Murderbot Diaries… Murderbot, though, isn’t a stand-in for any other oppressed group, as much as some of us might see ourselves in its outsider-status, hatred of ally condescension, and “not applicable” gender. The prejudice it faces isn’t because it […]

Publishers Weekly: Marino does an impressive job writing tender and heartbreaking moments without sacrificing the brutal tone that drives the story. Absolutely devastating.

Tordotcom is thrilled to announce the acquisition of World English rights of The Archive Undying and an additional novel by debut author Emma Mieko Candon by Editor Carl Engle-Laird from Caitlin McDonald at Donald Maass Literary Agency. The Archive Undying is an epic work of mecha sci-fi about Sunai, the immortal survivor of an Autonomous Intelligence that went mad and destroyed the city it watched over as a patron god. In the aftermath of the divine AI’s suicide, Sunai is on the run […]

Library Journal: In crime reporter Thompson’s gripping fiction debut, Allie is welcomed to her wealthy new neighborhood by being framed for murder. The spot-on depictions of modern parenthood and suburban life make this story even more suspenseful, as Allie tries to find the real murderer before her entire life is destroyed.

NPR: Martha Wells’ newest entry in her award-winning, nerd-charming, trope-bending Murderbot series, FUGITIVE TELEMETRY, is a lot of things that you probably don’t expect. One of Wells’ superpowers has long been her ability to pack an epic’s worth of material into a very small package. And here, she uses the condensed timeline and single location as a way to put Murderbot in a situation of constant moral reckoning. Sure, there’s no end here without a showdown, some explosions, a cool robot […]

Booklist: El works as part of the Order, a sisterhood and core central body that rules Aytrium and keeps it running. Her magic, or “lace,” is powered by consuming the flesh of her ancestors. This power comes at a harsh price, and it’s one that El is willing to escape at any cost, which is why she agrees when a resistance group asks her to spy on the sisterhood’s top officials. Hall’s world is intricately woven, with a complex web of side […]