April Translation Deals

April Translation Deals

Catalan rights to Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction winner Vajra Chandrasekera’s RAKESFALL, to Chronos, by Elena Rodríguez at International Editors & Yáñez Co’ S.L. in association with Michael Curry. Czech rights to Katherine Addison’s THE GRIEF OF STONES to Dobrovsky, by Nada Popovic at Prava I Prevodi, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure. French rights to Seamus Sullivan’s DAEDALUS IS DEAD to  Elysande, by Sarah Dray at Anna Jarota Agency, on behalf of Katie Shea […]

Deal: Ada Palmer

Deal: Ada Palmer

Historian at University of Chicago and award-winning author of INVENTING THE RENAISSANCE Ada Palmer’s untitled book on censorship, unpacking our many false assumptions about what it is and how it operates, and providing a roadmap for thoughtful resistance, based in part on a museum exhibit and series of films exploring censorship during information revolutions, to Dan Gerstle at Norton, in a pre-empt, for World excluding the UK, by Cameron McClure.

Deal: E.B. Asher

Deal: E.B. Asher

Bridget Morrissey, Emily Wibberley, and Austin Siegemund-Broka writing as E.B. Asher’s LAST NIGHT IN LYRIS, pitched as The Hangover meets THE ATLAS SIX, in which three magical university dropouts might be the only ones who can save the school and the city from a curse that’s been cast the night before graduation—if they can remember what they did last night, to Priyanka Krishnan at Avon, for publication in fall 2027, by Taylor Haggerty at Root Literary for Morrissey and Katie […]

Review: THE HIVE by Ronald Malfi

Review: THE HIVE by Ronald Malfi

Booklist: “…one of his very best: a story that pulls readers deeply in with a consuming dread that becomes almost unbearable. Truly a magnificent work of horror fiction.”

The GoodReads Editor’s Picks for the Past Five Years

Congratulations to all the DMLA authors whose titles were named a GoodReads Editor’s Top Genre Pick for the past five years! Fantasy MAD SISTERS OF ESI by Tashan Mehta METAL FROM HEAVEN by august clarke THE STARSEEKERS by Nicole Glover THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS by Vajra Chandrasekera Horror THE REFORMATORY by Tananarive Due

Booklist’s Top Ten YA Debuts 2026

Booklist just released their Top Ten YA Debuts for 2026 and we’re thrilled to see the following DMLA titles included in the roundup! Out of Air by Rachel Reiss A deep-sea dive into a breathtaking cave leaves Phoebe and the Salt Squad cursed in this artful thriller full of airtight tension and robust character development. All the Noise at Once by DeAndra Davis Black and autistic Aiden wants nothing more than to play football with his quarterback brother, Brandon, but […]

Starred Review: THE CURVE OF THE WORLD by Vonda McIntyre

Publishers Weekly: A gentle elegiac tone pervades this stunning posthumous historical fantasy from multi–Hugo and Nebula award winner McIntyre (Dreamsnake), who died in 2019. In ancient Crete, Iakinthu, a former bull dancer, is at the apex of her second profession as chief diplomat-trader of her seafaring nation. To fulfill Minoan tradition, she must take her adopted son, Rhenthizu, to meet his birth mother in a faraway land no Minoan has ever visited, after which he will choose which woman to […]

Chicago Review of Books on TRACE ELEMENTS by Jo Walton and Ada Palmer

Chicago Review of Books on TRACE ELEMENTS by Jo Walton and Ada Palmer

Chicago Review of Books: “This is a savvy release by Tor and a smart and engaging work by Walton and Palmer.” The genre of science fiction has been stereotyped and maligned for too long, and two of its contemporary champions, Jo Walton and Ada Palmer, would like to set the record straight. It’s hard to imagine a pair better suited to the job. They are decorated science fiction authors in their own right. Walton won Hugo and Nebula Awards for Among […]

2026 Indies Choice Book Award!

2026 Indies Choice Book Award!

Congratulations to Neil Sharpson as his book DON’T TRUST FISH wins the 2026 Indies Choice Book Award in the Children’s Picture Book category!

Review: AND SIDE BY SIDE THEY WANDER by Molly Tanzer

Review: AND SIDE BY SIDE THEY WANDER by Molly Tanzer

Library Journal: The underqualified misfits undertaking this intergalactic art heist have no idea what mission they’ve actually signed up for. They think they’re going to steal back the art treasures that Earth gave up in return for a quick fix to their onrushing apocalypse. Now that Earth is repaired, it wants its stuff back, even if they have to steal it. The crew thinks the mission is sanctioned, their leader believes that everyone will forgive his deceptions, and the art […]