“This year also saw the final volume in Tom Pollock’s superb YA Skyscraper Throne trilogy: Our Lady of the Streets (Quercus) uses fantasy conceits and a tireless capacity for invention to map the dazzle, diversity and menace of London in ways simply unavailable to realist writers.”
Congratulations to DMLA authors who made Tor.com’s fan-based Favorite Books of 2014 list!
Congratulations to our DMLA authors who were chosen for Kirkus’ Best Fiction of 2014!
Congratulations to the DMLA authors up for 2014’s Goodreads Choice Awards!
Sian Kattë and her husband have an amicable empty-nest marriage and a thriving business, but that all changes when a god’s emissary assaults Sian and gives her mystical healing abilities that threaten the dominance of the male physician-priests. Longtime short fiction collaborators Lake and Page worked closely on this intimate novel (set in Lake’s Green universe) before Lake’s death in mid-2014, and their styles intersect with smooth perfection.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Isn’t that what they say? But how close is too close when they may be one in the same?
The Seven Stages War left much of the planet a charred wasteland. The future belongs to the next generation’s chosen few who must rebuild it. But to enter this elite group, candidates must first pass The Testing—their one chance at a college education and a rewarding career.
Cia Vale is honored to be chosen as a Testing candidate; eager to prove her worthiness as a University student and future leader of the United Commonwealth. But on the eve of her departure, her father’s advice hints at a darker side to her upcoming studies–trust no one.
But surely she can trust Tomas, her handsome childhood friend who offers an alliance? Tomas, who seems to care more about her with the passing of every grueling (and deadly) day of the Testing. To survive, Cia must choose: love without truth or life without trust.
Andrea Portes’ BURY THIS has been named a Top Indie Fiction pick by Library Journal!
The body of a young woman is found by a snow plower at the side of the road in 1979 small-town Michigan, and the case is unsolved for 25 years until some film students decide to make a documentary. The effect on the town, always insidious, turns incendiary. VERDICT Based on a true story, this book delivers suspense but means to be a social study, told in precise, lyrical language.
Congratulations to Carolita Blythe on Revenge of a Not-So-Pretty Girl being selected as a Bank Street Best Book of 2014!
Girls who are pretty have a way of looking down their perfect noses at anyone they feel isn’t worthy of sharing the air with them. They have a way of making regular girls like me feel inferior for not winning the gene pool lottery. Tormenting them is my way of getting even.
Everyone knows that pretty equals mean, and Evelyn Ryder used to be a beautiful movie star—never mind that it was practically a lifetime ago. There’s no time limit on mean. So if you think I feel guilty about mugging her, think again.
But for something that should have been so simple, it sure went horribly wrong.
DMLA congratulates Joelle Charbonneau and Paul Crilley on their books The Testing and The Osiris Curse: A Tweed and Nightingale Adventure on making VOYA’s Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror for Teens list for 2013!
Congratulations to Joelle Charbonneau and Cassandra Rose Clarke for their books The Testing and The Assassin’s Curse being included in YALSA’s 2014 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readers!
Congratulations to Tom Pollock on Our Lady of the Streets being named one of The Guardian‘s Best Science Fiction Books of 2014!
Jay Lake and Shannon Page’s Our Lady of the Islands has been named a Publishers Weekly Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book of 2014!