Donald Maass Literary Agency

Korean rights to New York Times bestselling author Yoon Ha Lee’s PHOENIX EXTRAVAGANT, a novel of dragons, art, and revolution, to East-Asia Publishing Co., by Jackie Yang at Eric Yang Agency in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.

Library Journal: The Reverend Daughter Harrowhark Nonagesimus was the last necromancer of the Ninth House. Now she is Harrowhark the First, a Lyctor in service to the Emperor, the Undying King. But those in service hold both sword and power, and Harrow seems to be able to do neither. Her sword makes her physically ill, her body is failing, and her mind seems not far behind. Trapped in space with three seasoned Lyctors who seem to hate Harrow, training alongside […]

Author of FOOD OF THE GODS Cassandra Khaw’s FINE PRINT, a horror novella set in Vampire: The Masquerade’s World of Darkness in which an arrogant tech bro learns the importance of reading the fine print in the contract for immortality, to David Pomerico at HarperVoyager for HarperAudio, by Michael Curry.

Congratulations to the DMLA authors nominated for the 2020 Hugo Awards! BEST NOVEL Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing) BEST RELATED WORK “2019 John W. Campbell Award Acceptance Speech”, Jeannette Ng (Dublin 2019 ­ An Irish Worldcon) BEST GRAPHIC STORY OR COMIC LaGuardia, Nnedi Okorafor, illustrated by Tana Ford, colours by James Devlin (Berger Books/Dark Horse) BEST SEMIPROZINE Elsa Sjunneson, as managing editor for Fireside Magazine S.B. Divya, as co-editor for Escape Pod LODESTAR for Best Young Adult Book […]

Author of I AM PROVIDENCE, SABBATH, and MOVE UNDER GROUND Nick Mamatas’s THE SECOND SHOOTER, in which a reporter commissioned by a small conspiracy-minded publisher to research the second shooter phenomenon draws dangerous attention to himself, to David Thomas Moore at Solaris, by Michael Curry.

School Library Journal: Fitz Holton and Juniper Ramirez cross paths while touring colleges, though they have different goals in mind. Fitz would like to stay home and care for his ailing mother, who is encouraging him to get out and experience college, while Juniper is ready to get out of the house where she lives with her five siblings. Juniper heads out with her boyfriend Matt on visits, but once Fitz gets the courage to approach her, Juniper realizes that […]

Audio rights to Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Martha Wells’ Between Worlds: The Collected Ile-Rien and Cineth Stories, containing all five previously published short stories set in Ile-Rien and Cineth, plus a new story, “Night at the Opera,” set before The Death of the Necromancer, to Brian Sweany at Recorded Books, by Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.

Catalan rights to Nnedi Okorafor’s BINTI trilogy, to Raig Verd, by Amaiur Fernandez at International Editors’, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Donald Maass. Icelandic rights to Alexander Dan Vilhjálmsson’s SHADOWS OF THE SHORT DAYS to Hólmfríður Matthíasdóttir at Forlagið via Jennifer Jackson. Italian rights to Robert Jackson Bennett’s THE FOUNDERS TRILOGY, to Mondadori, in a three-book deal, by Stefania Fietta at Donzelli Fietta, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure. Turkish rights to Caitlin Starling’s THE LUMINOUS […]

Author of FOOD OF THE GODS Cassandra Khaw’s NOTHING BUT BLACKENED TEETH, a horror novella about a destination wedding weekend in Japan that quickly turns nightmarish for five friends when a ghost bride joins the festivities, to Kristin Temple at Nightfire (Tom Doherty Associates), with Ellen Datlow editing, by Michael Curry.

Publishers Weekly: The industrialized magic system is intricate and fascinating…, and Bennett’s characterization of the unhinged, all-powerful Crasedes strikes a perfect balance between terror and allure.