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Locus Recommended Reading List 2013

Feb 032014
 

Congratulations to all the DMLA clients who are featured on the 2013 Locus Recommended Reading List!

Novels – Fantasy:

  • American Elsewhere, Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit)
  • Sister Mine, Nalo Hopkinson (Grand Central)
  • Between Two Thorns, Emma Newman (Angry Robot)

Collections:

  • Conservation of Shadows, Yoon Ha Lee (Prime)
  • Kabu Kabu, Nnedi Okorafor (Prime)

Novellas:

  • “Rock of Ages,” Jay Lake (METAtropolis: Green Space)
  • “Iseul’s Lexicon,” Yoon Ha Lee (Conservation of Shadows)

Short Stories:

  • “Effigy Nights,” Yoon Ha Lee (Clarkesworld 1/13)
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Film Deal: The Wolf’s Hour by Robert McCammon

Jan 162014
 

mccammon-wolfshourUniversal has optioned The Wolf’s Hour, a novel by Robert McCammon, Chris Morgan and Emile Gladstone to produce and the script written by Bradley and Kevin Marcus. Read more about the deal here.

Michael Gallatin is a British spy with a peculiar talent: the ability to transform himself into a wolf. Although his work in North Africa helped the Allies win the continent in the early days of World War II, he quit the service when a German spy shot his lover in her bed. Continue reading »

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Tor.com Best Books of 2013

Dec 172013
 

DMLA congratulates our authors on their mentions in Tor.Com’s Reviewers Choice Best Books of 2013 list!

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Deal: Ronald Malfi

Nov 042013
 

Ronald MalfiBram Stoker Award nominee Ronald Malfi’s Little Girls, about a woman who, in the wake of her father’s death, moves with her husband and daughter back to her childhood home, and is haunted by a childhood tragedy that seems to be replaying itself with her daughter, as she becomes increasingly obsessed with investigating her father’s death, to Peter Senftleben at Kensington, by Cameron McClure.

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Publishers Weekly Best SF/F/H Books of 2013

Nov 042013
 

DMLA congratulates its authors whose work made Publishers Weekly’s Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Books of 2013 list:

  • American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett
  • Conservation of Shadows by Yoon Ha Lee
  • 21st Century Science Fiction, including stories by Elizabeth Bear, Yoon Ha Lee, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Karl Schroeder
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Review: Year of the Demon by Steve Bein

Oct 152013
 

bein-demonLibrary Journal: Because of her efforts to prove her worth, DS Mariko Oshiro has been promoted to Tokyo’s Narcotics Unit, an elite group of detectives who tackle the most difficult cases. When a member of a powerful yakuza syndicate places a price on Mariko’s head, she finds that the only way the bounty can be lifted is if she retrieves the iron demon mask recently stolen from the crime lord. Continue reading »

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Year of the Demon by Steve Bein

Oct 012013
 

bein-demonDetective Sergeant Mariko Oshiro has been promoted to Japan’s elite Narcotics unit—and with this promotion comes a new partner, a new case, and new danger. The underboss of a powerful yakuza crime syndicate has put a price on her head, and he’ll lift the bounty only if she retrieves an ancient iron demon mask that was stolen from him in a daring raid. Continue reading »

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Deal: Steve Bein

Aug 152013
 

steve-bein-b0026wSteve Bein’s Book 3 in the Fated Blades trilogy (to follow Daughter of the Sword and Year of the Demon) to Anne Sowards at Penguin (Ace/Roc) by Cameron McClure.

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