Congratulations to all our DMLA authors who have been chosen as 2021 Hugo Award finalists! Best Novel Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com) Network Effect, Martha Wells (Tor.com) Best Series The Murderbot Diaries, Martha Wells (Tor.com) Best Editor, Short Form S.B. Divya Best Semiprozine S.B. Divya, as co-editor for Escape Pod Elsa Sjunneson, as non-fiction editor for Uncanny Magazine Best Fan Writer Elsa Sjunneson Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book Elatsoe, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido) Astounding Award for Best New Writer […]
2021 Compton Crook Award
Congratulations to Micaiah Johnson for having THE SPACE BETWEEN WORLDS chosen as the 2021 Compton Crook Award winner!
Deal: Victoria Fulton and Faith McClaren
Wendy Loggia at Underlined has bought Horror Hotel by Victoria Fulton and Faith McClaren; Alison Romig will edit. Pitched as The Blair Witch Project for a new generation, this YA horror novel features a group of amateur YouTuber teen ghost hunters who travel to a haunted hotel, the site of an infamous L.A. tragedy, to spend the night and secretly film after dark. When they stumble upon a dead body, they realize that the most terrifying horror stories aren’t always paranormal. Publication is set for spring 2022; […]
Review: Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
Library Journal: Preservation Station was supposed to be a low threat-assessment, but the SecUnit named Murderbot finds itself standing in front of a dead body, facing a mysterious murder. Mensah asks Murderbot to help investigate the death and find out if GrayCris was involved, even though both sides have little trust for each other. Murderbot attempts to work with Senior Officer Indah and her agents, but identifying the dead is the least of their problems. Deceptions and more deaths lead […]
Review: Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw
Publishers Weekly: A famously haunted Japanese mansion is the wedding venue of choice for an adventurous couple in this hair-raising novella from Khaw (These Deathless Bones)—and the local spirits are not the only obstacle to marital bliss. Five childhood friends with a metric ton of baggage between them fly to Japan to witness the union of two of their own—but old hurt and stubborn grudges cast long shadows within their group, and the social drama takes center stage, even as […]
Review: Hot Copy by Ruby Barrett
Library Journal: An engaging debut featuring intense feelings and situations, with plenty of heat.
Review: Escaping Exodus: Symbiosis by Nicky Drayden
Booklist: In Drayden’s Escaping Exodus series, humans carve out lives in the bodies of space creatures called the Zenzee, capturing a new home whenever an old one wears out. In the first volume ( Escaping Exodus, 2019), the matriarchal, polyamorous society realized their Zenzee had consciousness, and committed to respecting and restoring their world as much as possible, living with minimum negative impact. This second volume starts with now-ruler Doka and his wife, Seske, fighting for this new reality, which […]
Deal: Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller sold CONSTELLATION FIVE, a new volume collecting recent short stories set in their nationally best-selling Liaden Universe® series, to Toni Weisskopf at Baen Books via Jennifer Jackson.
Deal: Emma Mieko Candon
Emma Mieko Candon’s STAR WARS VISIONS: RONIN, an original novel inspired by one of the unique tales from the upcoming Star Wars Visions animated series, to Tom Hoeler at Del Rey, for publication in October 2021, by Caitlin McDonald.
March Subsidiary Rights Deals
Audio rights to New York Times bestselling author Martha Wells’s three new untitled Murderbot Diaries books, to Brian Sweany at Recorded Books, in an exclusive submission, by Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.