Congratulations to Darcie Little Badger as Elatsoe was included in this fantastic round-up of Kirkus’s Best Books of the 21st Century (so far!)!
Apr 182025
Mar 252025
We are thrilled to share that HEIRESS TAKES ALL is a Reese’s Book Club Spring 2025 YA pick! Congratulations to author duo Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka!
More from the announcement:
“This novel is your next can’t-miss read: unexpected alliances, sharp wit, and incredible plot twists. Our Spring YA pick, Heiress Takes All, is here – and we’ve asked Raegan Revord to read with us all year long. This story follows a former heiress who enlists the help of unlikely classmates for a heist at the wedding of the season… and it just so happens to be her father’s. This novel pairs high stakes with a lovable cast of characters and is sure to keep you up all night reading.”
Feb 262025
Congratulations to both Shaun David Hutchinson and Matthew Hubbard! Their respective works, SCHOOL FOR INVISIBLE BOYS (Hutchinson) and LAST BOYFRIENDS RULES FOR REVENGE (Hubbard) were listed in the American Library Association’s 2025 Rainbow Book List!
Dec 182024
Excited to see so many DMLA titles on the New York Times Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for 2024! Check out these spotlights!
Rakesfall
By Vajra Chandrasekera
Chandrasekera’s second novel shifts wildly in structure and narration to dazzling result. Souls recur in various combinations and circumstances, organized around how to endure fascism and kill kings. A TV show that is perhaps reality gives way to a play about beings who reincarnate over thousands of years, which gives way to a murder mystery involving a cybernetically enhanced near-immortal who wakes from an ancient sleep. Ambitious and kaleidoscopic.
Exordia
By Seth Dickinson
Dickinson’s science-fiction debut is a first-contact story about a Kurdish war orphan and the warmongering six-headed snake alien she meets in Central Park. Scrutinizing ethics, theoretical physics and the military-industrial complex, “Exordia” is so brilliant that I’m including it in this list despite its decidedly non-stand-alone ending, for which I feel the publisher owes me either an apology or the next two volumes in quick succession.
Those Beyond the Wall
By Micaiah Johnson
This is a stand-alone sequel to “The Space Between Worlds,” Johnson’s postapocalyptic debut. Here, travel through the multiverse is possible but comes with the risk of being crushed to death by a cosmic “backlash.” But someone has figured out how to shift that risk from the traveler to others, and innocent people are being killed. Stopping this will require old nemeses and unlikely friends to unite against a common enemy.
The Tainted Cup
By Robert Jackson Bennett
Bennett’s perfectly executed fantasy mystery novel introduces two dynamic detectives in a strange world, as if Nero Wolfe were solving mysteries in Area X. Dinios Kol is an “engraver,” able to remember crime scenes in perfect detail; his employer, Ana Dolabra, is an ostracized investigator whose sensory sensitivity often requires her to wear a blindfold. When a wealthy man is spectacularly murdered, Ana and Din are called in to solve the crime.
Dec 162024
We are so thrilled to see so many DMLA titles on NPR’s Best Books of 2024! Huge shoutout and many congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (RAKESFALL), Micaiah Johnson (THOSE BEYOND THE WALL), Robert Jackson Bennett (THE TAINTED CUP), Premee Mohamed (THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST), Nalo Hopkinson (BLACKHEART MAN), Darcie Little Badger (SHEINE LENDE), and august clarke (METAL FROM HEAVEN)!
Dec 092024
Join us in congratulating DMLA author, Shaun David Hutchinson, as his book, THE SCHOOL FOR INVISIBLE BOYS, makes the New York Public Library’s list for Best Books for Kids in 2024!
Nov 272024
We’re thrilled to share that two DMLA titles, THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST by Premee Mohamed and METAL FROM HEAVEN by august clarke, were part of the Washington’s Posts line-up for the 11 best science fiction and fantasy books of 2024!
Nov 012024
Congratulations, august clarke! METAL FROM HEAVEN (Erewhon) was listed on Publishers Weekly list for Best Books of 2024!
Feb 052024
Congratulations to our clients appearing on the Locus 2023 Recommended Reading List!
NOVELS – SCIENCE FICTION
- System Collapse, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)
NOVELS – FANTASY
- Witch King, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)
NOVELS – HORROR
- The Reformatory, Tananarive Due (Saga; Titan UK)
FIRST NOVELS
- The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
COLLECTIONS
- The Wishing Pool and Other Stories, Tananarive Due (Akashic)
- No One Will Come Back For Us, Premee Mohamed (Undertow)
- Skin Thief, Suzan Palumbo (Neon Hemlock)
NOVELLAS
- The Salt Grows Heavy, Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire; Titan UK)
- Hybrid Heart, Iori Kusano (Neon Hemlock)
- The Navigating Fox, Christopher Rowe (Tordotcom)
NOVELETTES
- “At Every Door a Ghost”, Premee Mohamed (Communications Breakdown)
- “Ivy, Angelica, Bay“, C.L. Polk (Tor.com 12/8/23)
SHORT STORIES
- “Those Hitchhiking Kids“, Darcie Little Badger (The Sunday Morning Transport 4/2/23)
- “Suppertime”, Tananarive Due (New Suns 2)
- “Homewrecker“, E. Catherine Tobler (Apex 11/21/23)
Dec 202023
The New York Times released their Best SFF Books of 2023 list, and huge congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera and Martha Wells for making the list!
- The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
- Witch King by Martha Wells
