DMLA congratulates our authors on their mentions in Tor.Com’s Reviewers Choice Best Books of 2013 list!
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Matthew McBride’s THE SWOLLEN RED SUN to Rob Hart at The Mysterious Press, by Stacia Decker. In Gasconade County, Missouri—at one time called the meth capital of the world—Deputy Sherriff Dale Banks discovers $50,000 hidden in a cat’s litter box in the broken-down trailer Jerry Dean Skaggs uses for cooking crystal. And he takes it. Banks knows that what he’s done is wrong, but he’s done it for all the right reasons. At least, he thinks so. But for every wrong there is a consequence.
Owen Matthews’ HOW TO WIN AT HIGH SCHOOL, the story of a loser who, upon transferring schools his junior year, decides to do whatever it takes to reinvent himself, win over the popular crowd, and take over the school (Ferris Bueller meets Scarface) to Kristen Pettit at Harper Children’s, by Stacia Decker.
Romantic Times: After her father’s death, Catherine Meriweather is still adjusting to her cousin Edmund becoming the master of Meriweather Hall. Helping her with this is Jonathan Bradby, Edmund’s friend. Jonathan is a hero, or so they say. He knows his heroic act was just an accident. Instead of continuing to try and convince his friends of that, he decides he will just become a real hero by accomplishing a heroic act. Continue reading »
Jonathon Bradby would gladly return to fighting the French if it meant avoiding his new title: war hero. Only he knows the reputation isn’t deserved. Then a visit to Sanctuary Bay brings renewed acquaintance with the lovely Lady Catherine Meriweather. He’s drawn to her, yet Cat surely deserves a real hero.
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DMLA congratulates Fiona Maazel on her novel Woke Up Lonely being named one of New York Times‘ 100 Notable Books of 2013!
Shya Scanlon’s The Guild of St. Cooper, about an obscure author in a near-future post-evacuation Seattle who is drawn into writing a revisionist history that sets the book itself unspooling backward into its own alternate history and into a world—featuring giant rhododendrons, space aliens, and a certain Special Agent Dale Cooper—increasingly both familiar and unrecognizable, to Guy Intoci at Dzanc, by Stacia Decker.
Romanian rights to Brent Week’s THE WAY OF SHADOWS to Editura Art by Prava I Prevodi, in association with Cameron McClure, on behalf of Donald Maass.
Polish rights to Judy Huddleson’s LOVE HIM MADLY: AN INTIMATE MEMOIR OF JIM MORRISON to Wydawnictwo Dolnoslaskie by Prava I Prevodi, in association with Cameron McClure, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier.
Polish Rights to Anne Bishop’s DAUGHTER OF THE BLOOD, HEIR TO THE SHADOWS, and QUEEN OF THE DARKNESS to Initium by Prava I Prevodi, in association with Jennifer Jackson.
The Guardian: In All Is Fair by Em
ma Newman (Angry Robot, £7.99), the third volume of the Split Worlds trilogy, our reality is mirrored by a magical realm called the Nether, where decadence and luxury are a thin veneer over a corrupt and iniquitous society. Feisty protagonist Cathy, the Duchess of Londinium, capital of Nether, investigates the disappearance of her governess and attempts to bring about equality for women. Continue reading »
Publishers Weekly: A blistering pace and a stomach-turning homicide-for-hire scheme rockets Laukkanen’s third thriller featuring the detective odd couple of Carla Windermere and Kirk Stevens (after 2012’s Criminal Enterprise) from Minneapolis to grungy venues all over the United States. Since Windermere, a gorgeous African-American FBI agent, and Stevens, a middle-aged and married investigator with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, first worked together, they’ve stayed close—though not as close as both suspect they easily could be. Continue reading »