Mar 182022
 

Sharon Lee (left) and Steve Miller (right)

Sharon Lee and Steve Miller’s next three novels in the epic Liaden Universe ® series, to Toni Weisskopf at Baen in a six-figure deal by Jennifer Jackson.

Mar 162022
 

Congratulations to Darcie Little Badger for her inclusion in the 2021 British Science Fiction Association Shortlist:

Best Book for Young Readers
A Snake Falls to Earth, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
Mar 152022
 

Tara Weikum at HarperTeen has preempted Ellen O’Clover’s debut novel Seven Percent of Ro Devereux. When her senior project—a future-predicting app based on the game MASH—goes viral, 18-year-old Ro and her app-selected match/ex-best friend Miller become the public faces of a phenomenon that spirals out of control. Publication is set for winter 2023; Katie Shea Boutillier did the six-figure, two-book deal for world English rights.

Mar 112022
 

Congratulations to all our DMLA authors who have been chosen as 2021 Nebula Award Nominees!

Nebula Award for Novel

  • Machinehood, S.B. Divya (Saga)

Nebula Award for Novella

  • And What Can We Offer You Tonight, Premee Mohamed (Neon Hemlock)
  • The Necessity of Stars, E. Catherine Tobler (Neon Hemlock)

Nebula Award for Short Story

  • “Proof by Induction”, José Pablo Iriarte (Uncanny 5–6/21)
  • “Laughter Among the Trees”, Suzan Palumbo (The Dark 2/21)

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

  • A Snake Falls to Earth, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)

“Author Martha Wells graciously declined her nomination as a novella finalist this year for Fugitive Telemetry: Murderbot Diaries, Book 6, published by Tordotcom. Wells felt that the Murderbot Diaries series has already received incredible praise from her industry peers and wanted to open the floor to highlight other works within the community.”

Mar 082022
 

In this engrossing and gripping fantasy set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Others series, an inn owner and her friends must find a killer—before it’s too late.…

Crowbones will gitcha if you don’t watch out!

Deep in the territory controlled by the Others—shape-shifters, vampires, and even deadlier paranormal beings—Vicki DeVine has made a new life for herself running The Jumble, a rustic resort. When she decides to host a gathering of friends and guests for Trickster Night, at first everything is going well between the humans and the Others.

But then someone arrives dressed as Crowbones, the Crowgard bogeyman. When the impostor is killed along with a shape-shifting Crow, and the deaths are clearly connected, everyone fears that the real Crowbones may have come to The Jumble—and that could mean serious trouble.

To “encourage” humans to help them find some answers, the Elders and Elementals close all the roads, locking in suspects and victims alike. Now Vicki, human police chief Grimshaw, vampire lawyer Ilya Sanguinati, and the rest of their friends have to figure out who is manipulating events designed to pit humans against Others—and who may have put Vicki DeVine in the crosshairs of a powerful hunter.

Mar 042022
 

Library Journal: In this new collection, editors Butcher and Hughes introduce a dozen short stories by some of today’s best urban fantasy writers. Standouts include Anne Bishop’s “The Dark Ship,” where, across the ocean from her tales of the Others, an act from a young woman brings her, and her town’s troubles, to the attention of great powers. Two powerful women face grief and hope on a search for their daughter in Annie Bellet’s “Train to Last Hope.” Werewolf Asil discovers that online dating may not be the trial he believes it is in “Dating Terrors,” by Patricia Briggs. Jim Butcher centers “Little Things” on the pixie Toot-Toot as he defends Dresden’s new castle, with an uneasy ally in Mister the cat. Avid fans of these authors will enjoy where their stories intersect with favorite characters, while new readers will find the shorts accessible and filled with vivid worldbuilding and interesting figures.

VERDICT A resoundingly successful collection of stories focused on heart, humor, and the strength of courage.

Mar 032022
 

Congratulations to Cassandra Khaw for her inclusion in the 2021 Bram Stoker Awards Final Ballot. NOTHING BUT BLACKENED TEETH was chosen in the Superior Achievement in Long Fiction.

Mar 022022
 

Victoria Fulton (left) and Faith McClaren (right)

Victoria Fulton and Faith McClaren’s ELLIE IS COOL NOW, in which a TV writer who didn’t peak in high school is given the ultimatum by her boss to go to her 10-year reunion or lose her big break, and takes the bait to (hopefully) prove once and for all, she is cool now, originally published via Wattpad, to Madeleine Colavita at Forever, in a very nice deal for publication in winter 2023, by Katie Shea Boutillier.

Feb 282022
 

a pair of black ear budsAudio rights to New York Times bestseller Jim Butcher’s new novella THE LAW, with the author to narrate, to Kate Runde at Podium Publishing, in a six-figure deal, at auction, by Michael Curry and Jennifer Jackson. Limited edition rights to Bill Schafer at Subterranean Press.

Audio rights to USA Today bestselling author LJ Andrews’s THE BROKEN KINGDOM SERIES, to Kate Runde at Podium Audio, at auction, in a four-book deal, by Katie Shea Boutillier

Audio rights to Mia Tsai’s BITTER MEDICINE, to Brian Sweany at Recorded Books, at auction, by Katie Shea Boutillier, on behalf of Anne Tibbets.