Donald Maass Literary Agency

Congratulations to Nnedi Okorafor! IKENGA has been nominated for the 2021 Edgar Awards in the juvenile category.

Congratulations to Darcie Little Badger! ELATSOE has been included on YALSA’s 2021 Best Fiction for Young Adults list!

Audio rights to New York Times bestselling author Tamsyn Muir’s sequel to PRINCESS FLORALINDA AND THE FORTY-FLIGHT TOWER, to Brian Sweany at Recorded Books, by Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.

Italian rights to Margaret Doody’s A WINTER’S MURDER, the first of a new mystery series set in the 19th centry, to Mondadori, by Stefania Fietta at Donzelli Fietta, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Donald Maass. Turkish rights to Nnedi Okorafor’s BINTI TRILOGY, AKATA WITCH and AKATA WARRIOR,  to Ithaki (Turkey), in a five-book deal, by Merve Ongen at ONK Agency, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Donald Maass.

Congratulations to Martha Wells for having NETWORK EFFECT chosen as Publishers Weekly Staff Picks Best Books of 2020! They write: Martha Wells’ cranky, TV-binging Murderbot, the star and narrator of four superb novellas before this novel, made for a perfect quarantine companion. Her SecUnit killing machine has favored a solitary existence ever since it hacked its way to sentience. It feels safest hunkered down in a storage bay, mainlining its favorite shows, far removed from the messy emotions and motives of […]

Publishers Weekly: With this gripping dystopian novel, Shirley (Eclipse) extrapolates a grim vision of a late-21st-century U.S. wracked by climate change. Former U.S. Marshal Darryl Webb is now a world-weary freelance tracker hired to find a missing serial killer believed to be in Stormland, a 400-mile stretch of devastated southeast U.S. coastline. Some 2,000 squatters live in the ruins of Charleston, inhabiting lawless, flooded enclaves—among them an eerie pseudo-religious cult, a gang of drug dealers, scavenger-refugees, and Gerald Fogle, Webb’s quarry. […]

Author of BENEATH THE RISING Premee Mohamed’s AND WHAT CAN WE OFFER YOU TONIGHT, a story of murder and vengeance in a city where anyone without a valid employment wristband can legally be hunted and killed by the government, to Dave Ring at Neon Hemlock, for publication in summer 2021, by Michael Curry.

Locus: Fugitive Telemetry is an interesting hybrid of murder mystery and space adventure. From the beginning of her career, Martha Wells’ characters have been relatable, understandable, complex, and human; her worldbuilding deft and interesting, filled with graceful detail and implying a universe beyond the page. The Murderbot stories continue this trajectory, with an entertaining protagonist – the incredibly relatable Murderbot – and a wry, witty, darkly humorous voice. Fugitive Telemetry is a brisk, well-paced delight, and fills in a gap […]

School Library Journal: Fast-paced dialogue, steamy make-out sessions, and a protagonist who grows throughout her journey will keep most thoroughly engaged.

Congratulations to our DMLA authors who were chosen as finalists for Audible’s Best Science Fiction Books of 2020! NETWORK EFFECT by Martha Wells THE SPACE BETWEEN WORLDS by Micaiah Johnson