Mary Robinette Kowal’s Of Noble Family (book 5 in the Glamourist Histories) along with Stagecraft and Ghost Talkers in a three book deal to Liz Gorinsky at Tor Books by Jennifer Jackson.
Kirkus, Starred Review: Who would kill a sweet, elderly nursing home resident? That’s just one of the problems Rebecca Robbins has to solve now that she’s decided to remain in her hometown of Indian Falls and continue running her mother’s roller rink. Continue reading »
Cherie Priest’s Godbothering and an untitled contemporary fantasy to Liz Gorinsky at Tor Books by Jennifer Jackson.
Jacey Bedford’s two science fiction novels and one fantasy novel to Sheila Gilbert at DAW by Amy Boggs.
Publishers Weekly: Ex-con Roy Alison would like to go straight, but he can’t seem to make up for past mistakes, and his only options are just more bad choices. Weddle’s debut novel is a suspenseful series of interrelated stories of tragedy, despair, and hopelessness in a rural Southern town. There is no joy here, as Weddle paints a vivid, depressing picture of a blue-collar community crushed by economic collapse and endemic substance abuse with characters, events, and dialogue that seem all too real. Continue reading »
Sophia Meriweather will—if all goes as it should—marry the heir to her father’s estate. If she’s to secure her family’s future, Sophia must put her would-be groom’s best friend from her mind. But keeping the darkly handsome widower and his two young children out of her heart is proving nearly impossible. Charles Winthrop, Lord Northbridge, doesn’t believe in love. Lovely Sophia may have charmed his normally silent children, but, for a man of honor and duty, she was a wife he dared not wish for. Yet nothing is as simple as it seems—especially when it comes to matters of the heart
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DMLA extends congratulations to the winners of the 2013 Hugo Awards and to the clients who took home a rocket in the following categories:
- Best Related Work: Mary Robinette Kowal, for her participation in Writing Excuses Season Seven
- Best Semiprozine: Jason Heller for his participation in Clarkesworld
- Best Fancast: Elizabeth Bear for her participation in SF Squeecast
French rights to Todd Robinson’s THE HARD BOUNCE to Gallmeister, by Anna Jarota at Anna Jarota Agency, in association with Cameron McClure on behalf of Stacia Decker.
French rights to Matthew McBride’s FRANK SINATRA IN A BLENDER to Gallmeister, by Anna Jarota at Anna Jarota Agency, in association with Cameron McClure on behalf of Stacia Decker.
German rights to Mike Shepherd’s KRIS LONGKNIFE: DEFIANT and KRIS LONGKNIFE: RESOLUTE to Bastei Lubbe by the Schlueck Agency in association with Jennifer Jackson.
Japanese rights to Mary Robinette Kowal’s SHADES OF MILK AND HONEY to Hayakawa by Owl’s Agency in association with Jennifer Jackson.
Adam Christopher’s The Burning Dark, The Jovian Conspiracy, The Stars Below (Books 1-3 in the Spider Wars series) to Natalie Laverick at Titan Books by Stacia Decker.
Steve Bein’s Book 3 in the Fated Blades trilogy (to follow Daughter of the Sword and Year of the Demon) to Anne Sowards at Penguin (Ace/Roc) by Cameron McClure.