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April Translation Rights Deals

Apr 302022
 

Bengali rights to Hugo Award-winner Elizabeth Bear’s untitled short fiction collection, consisting of ten stories never before appearing in Bengali, to Kalpabiswa Publications, by Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.

Dutch rights to Annika Martin’s BREAKING THE BILLIONAIRE’S RULES & THE BILLIONAIRE’S FAKE FIANCE, to April Books by Emma Lind and Phillip Sane at Lennart Sane Agency on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure.

French rights to New York Times bestselling author Martha Wells’ THE WIZARD HUNTERS, THE SHIPS OF AIR, and THE GATE OF GODS, the Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy, to Éditions L’Atalante, by Megan Husain at Anna Jarota Agency in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.

German rights to Annika Martin’s BILLIONAIRE BUTTDIAL, to Lyx, by Sarah Knofius at Thomas Schlueck Agency on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure.

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Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire 2022

Apr 292022
 

Cover of Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett.Congratulations to Robert Jackson Bennett for having both Foundryside and Shorefall shortlisted for the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire 2022’s Best Foreign Novel!

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2022 Hugo Award Finalists

Apr 142022
 

Congratulations to all our DMLA authors who have been selected as 2022 Hugo Award Finalists.

BEST SERIES

The Kingston Cycle, by C. L. Polk (Tordotcom)
Terra Ignota, by Ada Palmer (Tor Books)

BEST SHORT STORY

“Proof by Induction”, by José Pablo Iriarte (Uncanny Magazine, May/Jun 2021)

BEST SEMIPROZINE

S.B. Divya as editor and Premee Mohamed as assistant editor from the Escape Pod team

LODESTAR AWARD FOR BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK

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

ASTOUNDING AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER

Micaiah Johnson (2nd year of eligibility)

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March Translation Rights Deals

Mar 312022
 

French rights to New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop’s CROWBONES, a novel of the Others, to Bragelonne, by Megan Husain at the Anna Jarota Agency in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.

German rights to Lara Elena Donnelly’s AMBERLOUGH, to Cross Cult, by Sarah Knofius at Thomas Schlueck Agency, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier, for Caitlin McDonald.

German rights to Robert McCammon’s FREEDOM OF THE MASK, to Luzifer, by Sarah Knofius at Thomas Schlueck Agency, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier, for Cameron McClure.

Taiwanese/Complex Chinese rights to Micaiah Johnson’s THE SPACE BETWEEN WORLDS, to Apex, by Gray Tan at The Grayhawk Agency, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier, for Cameron McClure.

 

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2021 Nebula Award Nominees

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.”

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Review: Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennett

Feb 212022
 

Publishers Weekly: Gods collide in the high octane finale to Bennett’s epic fantasy Founders Trilogy,… Bennett advances the plot precipitously and raises his characters’ power levels to the “nigh-incomprehensible,” but the grounding themes of family and love as Sancia and Berenice risk their happiness to save the world, are what readers will take away.

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2021 Locus Recommended Reading List

Feb 042022
 

Congratulations to our DMLA authors on the 2021 Locus Recommended Reading List!

Novels – Science Fiction

  • The Second Shooter, Nick Mamatas (Solaris)
  • Noor, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
  • Perhaps The Stars, Ada Palmer (Tor; Ad Astra)

Novels – Fantasy

  • Soulstar, C.L. Polk (Tordotcom)
  • The Mask of Mirrors, M.A. Carrick (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

Novels – Horror

  • A Broken Darkness, Premee Mohamed (Solaris)
  • The Death of Jane Lawrence, Caitlin Starling (St. Martin’s)

Young Adult Novels

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

First Novels

  • Machinehood, S.B. Divya (Saga)
  • Star Eater, Kerstin Hall (Tordotcom)
  • The All-Consuming World, Cassandra Khaw (Erewhon)

Illustrated and Art Books

  • After the Rain, Nnedi Okorafor, adapted by John Jennings, art by David Brame (Abrams ComicArts/Megascope)

Novellas

  • A Blessing of Unicorns, Elizabeth Bear (Audible Originals 10/20; Asimov’s 9-10/21)
  • And What Can We Offer You Tonight?, Premee Mohamed (Neon Hemlock)
  • The Annual Migration of Clouds, Premee Mohamed (ECW)
  • Remote Control, Nnedi Okorafor (Tordotcom)
  • The Necessity of Stars, E. Catherine Tobler (Neon Hemlock)
  • Fugitive Telemetry, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)

Novelettes

  • “The Red Mother”, Elizabeth Bear (Tor.com 6/23/21)
  • “Broad Dutty Water: A Sunken Story”, Nalo Hopkinson (F&SF 11-12/21)
  • “The Black Pages”, Nnedi Okorafor (Black Stars)
  • “Music of the Siphorophenes”, C.L. Polk (F&SF 3-4/21)
  • “In the Garden of Ibn Ghazi”, Molly Tanzer (F&SF 3-4/21)

Short Stories

  • “The Wishing Pool”, Tananarive Due (Uncanny 7-8/21)
  • “Clap Back”, Nalo Hopkinson (Black Stars)
  • “Proof by Induction”, José Pablo Iriarte (Uncanny 5-6/21)
  • “Love, That Hungry Thing”, Cassandra Khaw (Apex 1/21)
  • “Laughter Among the Trees”, Suzan Palumbo (The Dark 2/21)
  • “Of Claw and Bone”, Suzan Palumbo (The Dark 5/21)
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January Subsidiary Rights Deals

Jan 312022
 

a pair of black ear budsAudio rights to Otherwise Award nominee Amanda Downum’s STILL SO STRANGE, to Brian Sweany at Recorded Books, by Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.

Graphic audio subrights to Ada Palmer’s THE WILL TO BATTLE and PERHAPS THE STARS, books 3 and 4 of the Terra Ignota series, to Anji Cornette at GraphicAudio, in a two-book deal, by Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure.

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January Translation Rights Deals

Jan 312022
 

Chinese (complex) rights to Nebula and Hugo Award winner Martha Wells’  NETWORK EFFECT, FUGITIVE TELEMETRY, and a new novella in the New York Times bestselling Murderbot Diaries series, to Global Group, by Gray Tan at Grayhawk Agency in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.

Japanese rights to Donald Maass’s THE EMOTIONAL CRAFT OF FICTION: HOW TO WRITE THE STORY BENEATH THE SURFACE, to Filmart-sha by Kohei Hattori at The English Agency on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Donald Maass.

Russian rights to New York Times Bestselling author Jim Butcher’s PROVEN GUILTY, WHITE KNIGHT, SMALL FAVOR, TURN COAT, CHANGES, and SIDE JOBS, all from the Dresden Files series, to Azbooka-Atticus, by Alexander Korzhenevski at Alexander Korzhenevski Agency in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.

Russian rights to Ada Palmer’s TOO LIKE THE LIGHTNING and SEVEN SURRENDERS, to AST, in a two-book deal, by Igor Korzhenevski at Alexander Korzhenevski Agency, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure.

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