Congratulations to Anne Bishop! THE QUEEN’S BARGAIN – debuts at #47 on the USA Today bestseller list.
Starred Review: Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Publishers Weekly: The masterful second genre-bending tale in Muir’s Locked Tomb trilogy (after Gideon the Ninth) ratchets up the horror, hijinks, and gallows humor of the series to a fever pitch. Queer necromancer Harrowhark Nonagesimus, heir to the Ninth House, has gotten everything she’s ever wanted: as a newly minted Lyctor, she’s earned a place by the side of the Necrolord Prime and a chance to revive her dying House. But something went wrong during her transformation, leaving her Lyctorhood […]
Review: Creatures of Charm and Hunger by Molly Tanzer
Booklist: A compelling, fun, and thought-provoking story for fans of Seanan McGuire, Alma Katsu, and Erin Morgenstern…. a perfect choice for teens, especially those who enjoy dark fantasy with detailed worldbuilding.
2020 Crawford Award
Congratulations to Tamsyn Muir for having GIDEON THE NINTH selected as the winner of the 2020 Crawford Award, presented annually by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) for a first book of fantasy fiction!
February Subsidiary Rights Deals
Audio rights to Anne Perry’s Books #13-19 of the Thomas Pitt series, to Brian Sweany at Recorded Books, in a multi-book deal, by Katie Shea Boutillier for Donald Maass.
February Translation Rights Deals
Chinese rights to James Scott Bell’s THE LAST FIFTY PAGES, to China Renmin University Press, in a nice deal, by Yijhen Lee at The Grayhawk Agency, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Donald Maass. French renewal rights to New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop’s DAUGHTER OF THE BLOOD, HEIR TO THE SHADOWS, and QUEEN OF THE DARKNESS, the first three books in the Black Jewels series, to Bragelonne, by Robin Batet at the Anna Jarota Agency in association with […]
Starred Review: Network Effect by Martha Wells
Publishers Weekly: Hugo- and Nebula-winner Wells’s excellent first full-length Murderbot Diaries novel (after the novella Exit Strategy) sees her hilariously humanlike Artificial Intelligence Security Unit recount a routine space mission gone horribly awry. […] SecUnit’s gloriously candid, frequently confused assessments of its crew and their predicaments allow for an amusingly childlike perspective on what it means to be human. Wells puts an astonishing amount of technical detail into SecUnit’s narrative, which will please hard sci-fi readers without detracting from the engaging […]
2019 Nebula Awards Finalists
Congratulations to our DMLA authors who were chosen as finalists for the 2019 Nebula Awards! Novel Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing) Game Writing The Magician’s Workshop, Kate Heartfield (Choice of Games) Fate Accessibility Toolkit, Elsa Sjunneson-Henry (Evil Hat Productions) Andre Norton Award Dragon Pearl, Yoon Ha Lee (Disney Hyperion)
Deal: Jo Ann Ferguson
In a three book deal, Jo Ann Ferguson, writing as Jo Ann Brown, will be a launch author for the new Love Inspired trade fiction line coming in Spring 2021 with Amish Bad Boys: Return to Bliss and two sequels, acquired by Tina James at Harlequin via Jennifer Jackson.
Deal: Michael Livingston
Winner of the Distinguished Book Prize from the Society for Military History, Michael Livingston’s CRECY: THE BATTLE OF FIVE KINGS, how the author and other modern scholars used neglected manuscripts, satellite technology, and old-fashioned fieldwork to discover that nearly everything that has been written about 1346’s Battle of Crécy –one the most famous and widely studied military engagements in history — may be wrong, to Marcus Cowper at Osprey, by Paul Stevens.