Donald Maass Literary Agency

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!

Booklist: For fans of hard science fiction chase tales like Corey J. White’s Repo Virtual (2020) or Daniel Suarez’s Change Agent (2017).

Vanessa Taylor and Drew Pearce will adapt Elizabeth Bear’s short story “Dolly” (Asimov’s). Following a competitive bidding war, the project has landed at Apple Studios. Academy Award-nominee Florence Pugh is attached to star. Pugh is repped by CAA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, Curtis Brown and Associates and attorney Ziffren Brittenham. Taylor is repped by ICM Partners, Robert Offer at Sloane Offer Weber Dern. Pearce and his Point of No Return Films is repped by WME and Jim Gilio and Warren Dern […]

Publishers Weekly: Barrett debuts with a delightful office romance for the #MeToo era…. Barrett expertly captures both the frenzied intensity of sex as distraction and the awkward drop back into reality as Corrine and Wesley face the limitations of their situation, but it’s the personal growth of both protagonists that really set this rom-com apart. This is a winner.

Library Journal: Born to serve and protect, Warlord Princes are sworn to their Queen. Daemonar Yaslana has always been bossy and protective, but he has reached an age where his behavior walks a fine line, and an emotional attack on his sister by a young Queen results in Daemonar beginning a new set of lessons under Witch, the Queen that many think of as old myth. When a curse is revealed to be rising in Kaleer, Daemonar along with his uncle […]

Rebecca Mix’s debut novel THE ONES WE BURN, a sapphic YA fantasy in which a blood-witch’s mission to assassinate the prince she is betrothed to is compromised by the discovery of a deadly plague—and by the beautiful princess intent on stopping it, to Alyza Liu at Margaret K. McElderry Books, for publication in fall 2022, by Kiana Nguyen at Donald Maass Literary Agency (World English).

Congratulations to all our DMLA authors who were chosen for the 2020 Locus Recommended Reading List! NOVELS – SCIENCE FICTION Machine, Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz) Network Effect, Martha Wells (Tordotcom) NOVELS – FANTASY Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom) Stormsong, C.L. Polk (Tordotcom) The Midnight Bargain, C.L. Polk (Erewhon) Creatures of Charm and Hunger, Molly Tanzer (John Joseph Adams) FIRST NOVELS Elatsoe, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido) Beneath the Rising, Premee Mohamed (Solaris) The Space Between Worlds, Micaiah Johnson (Del […]