Donald Maass Literary Agency

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison inked a four-book, world rights agreement with Anne Sowards at Ace Books. Jennifer Jackson at the Donald Maass Literary Agency brokered the deal. Two of these books continue Harrison’s Hollows series – the first to release will be the sixteenth installment in the series, TROUBLE WITH THE CURSED, currently scheduled for Summer 2022 with a sequel to follow. The remaining books will launch a new series that, Ace said, “follows a woman who cleans up the bad luck left behind […]

Congratulations to all our DMLA authors who have been nominated for 2020 Nebula Awards! Novel The Midnight Bargain, C.L. Polk (Erewhon) Network Effect, Martha Wells (Tordotcom) Andre Norton Award Elatsoe, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)

Congratulations to Premee Mohamed who’s BENEATH THE RISING was selected as a 2021 Crawford Award Finalist.

NPR: Machinehood takes its rightful place alongside the work of William Gibson, Malka Older, Isaac Asimov, Pat Cadigan, Vandana Singh, and Rudy Rucker as it engages with many of the topics we are wrestling with already, from bodily autonomy and privacy, to 24/7 news, invisible labor, influencer culture, disability, and political and military decisions based on assumptions forged in the past, rather than looking forward. This is an ambitious goal, and one that Machinehood achieves without losing touch with its humanity.

Publishers Weekly: [S]killfully blends a retro spy aesthetic with future technology.

Publishers Weekly: Mohamed’s thrilling, intricate sequel to Beneath the Rising picks up a year and a half after the events of the first book. Nick Prasad, driven by hatred for his former best friend, genius inventor Joanna “Johnny” Chambers, has joined the mystical Ssarati Society to help monitor magical threats against Earth. Mohamed’s lush, intense prose bewitches as Nick volunteers to spy on Johnny at the unveiling of her new reactor. When the party is overrun by monsters, Nick’s convinced that the […]

Audio rights to three books, GHOST, SPIRIT, and WRAITH, by Elle Andrews Patt sold to Victoria Gerkin at Podium Publishing by Paul Stevens.

Chinese rights to Robert Sheckley’s DIMENSIONS OF SHECKLEY, to Eight Light Minutes (China), by Gray Tan at The Grayhawk Agency on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier, for Cameron McClure. Estonian rights to New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher’s DEATH MASKS and BLOOD RITES, books 5 and 6 in the Dresden Files series, to Kirjastus Fantaasia, by Maša Ivanović at Prava i prevodi in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson. Farsi rights to New York Times bestselling author Martha Wells’ […]

Congratulations to Micaiah Johnson for having THE SPACE BETWEEN WORLDS nominated for the 2021 Compton Crook Award!

Congratulations to Anne Bishop for having SHADOWS AND LIGHT nominated for the Polish 2020 Best Book Award (Książka Roku) in the Fantasy category!