S.B. Divya’s debut novella, MINERVA’S CHALLENGE, about a race across the Sierra Nevadas that attracts the wealthiest bio-engineered contestants, featuring a girl who cobbles together her enhancements from others’ cast offs and and has no chance of winning but receives surprising help, exploring the various facets of privilege, to Carl Engle-Laird at Tor.com by Cameron McClure.
Spectrum award winner John Pitts’ NIGHT TERRORS, the fourth book in an urban fantasy series featuring blacksmith Sarah Beauhall, who must slip into an alternate nightmare dimension in order to save her girlfriend and keep the living nightmares from invading our world, moving to Kevin J. Anderson at WordFire Press, by Cameron McClure.
Polish rights to Jim Butcher’s THE AERONAUT’S WINDLASS, Book 1 in the Cinder Spires series, to MAG JACEK RODEK, by Milena Kaplarevic at Prava i Prevodi in association with Jennifer Jackson and Michael Curry.
German rights to Robert Jackson Bennett’s The Divine Cities trilogy, to Lübbe, at auction, in a three-book deal, by Julia Aumüller at Thomas Schlueck Agency in association with Katie Shea Boutillier, on behalf of Cameron McClure.
Korean rights to Jo Walton’s AMONG OTHERS, to Design Comma, by Jackie Yang at the Eric Yang Agency in association with Katie Shea Boutillier.
Italian rights to Robert McCammon’s novella I TRAVEL BY NIGHT, to Independent Legions, by Aurora Peccarisi at The Italian Literary Agency in association with Katie Shea Boutillier, on behalf of Cameron McClure.
Portuguese rights to Anne Bishop’s MURDER OF CROWS, Book 2 in the Others series, to Saida de Emergencia, by Carmen Corral at International Editors in association with Jennifer Jackson.
Latvian rights to Robert Jackson Bennett’s CITY OF STAIRS, to Prometejs AB, by Nada Cipranic at Prava I Prevodi, in association with Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Cameron McClure.
Italian renewal rights to Robert Sheckley’s TIME KILLER to Mondadori, by Aurora Peccarisi at The Italian Agency in association with Katie Shea Boutillier.
Rhiannon Held’s WOLFSBANE, Book 4 of the Silver series, to Anji Cornette at GraphicAudio, by Katie Shea Boutillier, on behalf of Cameron McClure.
Audio rights to Elizabeth Sims’ Lillian Byrd series, to Steve Feldberg at Audible, in a five-book deal, by Katie Shea Boutillier, on behalf of Cameron McClure.
Audio rights to Nnedi Okorafor’s short story collection KABU KABU, to Damilola Aransiola at Talking Bookz, by Katie Shea Boutillier (Africa only).
Audio rights to J.A. Pitts’ NIGHT TERROR, Book 4 in the Sarah Beauhall series, to Steve Feldberg at Audible, by Katie Shea Boutillier, on behalf of Cameron McClure.
Audio rights to Susan R. Matthews’ BLOOD ENEMIES, a new novel in the Philip K. Dick Award nominated Jurisdiction Universe series, to Steve Feldberg at Audible, by Michael Curry, on behalf of Jennifer Jackson.
Locus: One of McCammon’s great achievements in this novel is the horrifying sense he conveys of humanity reduced to the equivalent of so many ants in a field, being stomped on by warring combatants. The scenes of battle between the two armies and the firepower and weapons they yield are spectacular and vivid. […] Readers familiar with Stinger will find that many of the relationships, interactions, and plot twists in that novel resonate with those in The Border, though without directly paralleling them. It’s a credit to McCammon’s craft as a writer that two books separated by almost 30 years show such a consistency of vision and imagination.
Read the full review of The Border in this month’s Locus.
French rights to Anna Zabo’s TAKEOVER, to Bragelonne, by Katharina Loix van Hooff at Anna Jarota Agency in association with Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Jennifer Udden.
German rights to Molly Tanzer’s VERMILION, to Papierverzierer Verlag, at auction, by Julia Aumüller at Thomas Schlueck Agency in association with Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Cameron McClure.
German rights to Robert McCammon’s short story THE DEEP END, to Krachkultur, by Julia Aumuller at Thomas Schlueck Agency in association with Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Cameron McClure.
Turkish rights to Anne Bishop’s WRITTEN IN RED, Book 1 in the Others series, to Martı Yayınları, by Nazli Çökdü at the ONK Agency in association with Jennifer Jackson and Michael Curry.
Polish renewal rights to Brent Weeks’s The Night Angel Trilogy and THE BLACK PRISM, Book 1 of the Lightbringer series, to Mag Jacek Rodek, in a four-book deal, by Milena Kaplarevic at Prava I Prevodi in association with Katie Shea Boutillier.
Robert McCammon’s short story collection BLUE WORLD, to Steve Feldberg at Audible by Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Cameron McClure.
Congratulations to the DMLA clients nominated for a 2015 British Fantasy Award!
Best Fantasy Novel: City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett
Best Short Story: “A Woman’s Place” by Emma Newman
The city of Bulikov once wielded the powers of the gods to conquer the world, enslaving and brutalizing millions—until its divine protectors were killed. Now Bulikov has become just another colonial outpost of the world’s new geopolitical power, but the surreal landscape of the city itself—first shaped, now shattered, by the thousands of miracles its guardians once worked upon it—stands as a constant, haunting reminder of its former supremacy.
Into this broken city steps Shara Thivani. Officially, the unassuming young woman is just another junior diplomat sent by Bulikov’s oppressors. Unofficially, she is one of her country’s most accomplished spies, dispatched to catch a murderer. But as Shara pursues the killer, she starts to suspect that the beings who ruled this terrible place may not be as dead as they seem—and that Bulikov’s cruel reign may not yet be over.
Elisha is no longer the lowly barber he was, but it is hard to tell exactly who he is now. The beautiful witch Brigit, his former mentor, claims him for the magi, all those who have grasped the secrets of affinity and knowledge to manipulate mind and matter, and who are persecuted for it. Duke Randall, the man who first rose against the mad King Hugh, has accepted him as a comrade and ally in the perilous schemes of the nobility. Somehow, he has even become a friend to Thomas, both the rightful king and, something rarer, a good man.
But he is still a regicide, and in order to solidify Thomas’s authority among the restive barons, he had to let the new king sentence him to a horrific public execution. With Thomas’s covert aid, Elisha faked his death and went into hiding, but the peasants of London are beginning to call it a martyrdom, as legends of Elisha’s spectacular “miracles” in the service of his country have spread. Yet Elisha is finally beginning to understand the dreadful power within him, and he has never felt less holy—or more terrified.
Because there is another force at work in the world, a shadowy cabal beyond the might of kings and nobles, that sees its opportunity in the chaos of war and political turmoil—and sees its mirror in Elisha’s indivisible connection with Death. For these necromancers, Elisha is the ultimate prize, and the perfect tool.