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2016 Locus Recommended Reading List

Feb 092017
 

Congratulations to the DMLA clients who made the 2016 Locus Recommended Reading List!

Novels – Fantasy
* City of Blades, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway)

Novels – Horror
* The Family Plot, Cherie Priest (Tor)

First Novels
* Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

Collections
* Project Elfhome, Wen Spencer (Baen)

Novellas
* Hammers on Bone, Cassandra Khaw (Tor.com Publishing)

Novelettes
* “Foxfire, Foxfire”, Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/03/16)

Short Stories
* “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies“, Brooke Bolander (Uncanny 11-12/16)
* “Breathe“, Cassandra Khaw (Clarkesworld 5/16)
* “Shadows Weave“, Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 5/26/16)
* “Afrofuturist 419“, Nnedi Okorafor (Clarkesworld 11/16)

The Black Wolves of Boston by Wen Spencer

Feb 072017
 

From the Romantic Times Sapphire award winning author of the Internationally best-selling Elfhome series.

REBUILD A LIFE, SAVE A CITY

Silas Decker had his world destroyed when he was attacked by vampires outside of New Amsterdam. He has rebuilt his life a dozen times in the last three hundred years—each time less and less successfully. Now he lives alone, buried under a hoarding habit, struggling to find some reason to wake up with the setting of the sun.

Eloise is a Virtue, pledged to hunting evil. What she doesn’t know is how to live alone in a city full of strangers who know nothing about monsters.

Seth is the sixteen-year old Prince of Boston, ward of the Wolf King. Now he is left in a city that desperately needs his protection with enemies gathering all around.

Joshua believes he is a normal, college-bound high school senior. His life is shattered when he wakes up in a field, covered with blood, and the prom committee scattered in pieces about him like broken dolls.

These four must now come together to unravel a plot by Wickers, witches who gain power from human sacrifices and have the power to turn any human into their puppet. Four people who lost everything struggle to save Boston by saving each other.

Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor

Jan 312017
 

Cover for Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor.It’s been a year since Binti and Okwu enrolled at Oomza University. A year since Binti was declared a hero for uniting two warring planets. A year since she found friendship in the unlikeliest of places. And now she must return home to her people, with her friend Okwu by her side, to face her family and face her elders. But Okwu will be the first of his race to set foot on Earth in over a hundred years, and the first ever to come in peace. After generations of conflict can human and Meduse ever learn to truly live in harmony?

January Translation Deals

Jan 312017
 

photo of the earth from spaceSpanish renewal rights to Brent Weeks’ Night Angel series, to Debolsillo, in a three-book deal, by Maru de Montserrat of International Editors’ in association with Katie Shea Boutillier.

Japanese translation rights to Yoon Ha Lee’s Hexarchate series, including NINEFOX GAMBIT, RAVEN STRATEGEM, and REVENANT GUN, to Tokyo Sogensha, in a three-book deal, by Kohei Hattori at the English Agency (Japan) Ltd. in association with Jennifer Jackson.

December Translation Deals

Dec 312016
 

photo of the earth from spaceGerman rights to Lynda S. Robinson’s first four books in the LORD MEREN MYSTERIES, to Weltbild, by Kathrin Nehm at Thomas Schlueck Agency in association with Katie Shea Boutillier.

Deal: Anne Perry

Dec 052016
 

Photo of author Anne Perry.Three new historical mystery works by best-selling author Anne Perry for publication in 2018, to include the 24th in her William Monk series, the 16th of her Christmas novellas, and the 33rd in her Thomas Pitt series, moving the series into the first decade of the 20th Century with a cast of younger characters and featuring Thomas Pitt’s now-grown son Daniel, in a significant deal to Susanna Porter at Ballantine, by Donald Maass, in association with Meg Davis at Ki Agency in London.

Deal: Leslie S. Klinger

Dec 022016
 

Photo of author Les KlingerLeslie S. Klinger and Laurie King editing their third anthology of Sherlock Holmes inspired stories, including contributions from Cara Black, Rhys Bowen, Feed Barrel Coleman, Jamie Freveletti, Gregg Hurwitz, and more, to Claiborne Hancock at Pegasus Books, by Donald Maass.

Guardian’s Best SF and Fantasy Books of 2016

Dec 012016
 

Congratulations to the DMLA authors with work named in The Guardian‘s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2016!

  • Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
  • Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
  • Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

November Translation Deals

Nov 302016
 

photo of the worldFrench rights to New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop’s MARKED IN FLESH, Book 4 of the Others series, to Bragelonne, by David Camus at Anna Jarota Agency in association with Jennifer Jackson.

German rights to Jim Butcher’s ACADEM’S FURY, Book 2 of the Codex Alera series, renewed by Blanvalet, via Bastian Schlueck at the Thomas Schlueck Agency in association with Jennifer Jackson.

Japanese rights to NYT bestselling author Emily Brightwell’s MRS. JEFFRIES TAKES STOCK, to Tokyo Sogensha, by Kohei Hattori at The English Agency, in association with Katie Shea Boutillier.

Thai rights to Shaun David Hutchinson’s WE ARE THE ANTS, to The Reading Room,  by Itzel Hsu at The Grayhawk Agency in association with Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Amy Boggs.

Czech rights to Brent Weeks’s THE BLOOD MIRROR, Book 4 in the Lightbrigher series, to Fantom Print, by Nada Cipranic at Prava I Prevodi in association with Katie Shea Boutillier.

Russian rights to Jo Walton’s AMONG OTHERS, to AST, by Alexander Korzhenevski Agency in association with Katie Shea Boutillier.

German rights to the Nebula and Hugo Award winner for Best Novella, Nnedi Okorafor’s BINTI novella series, to Michael Schuster at Cross Cult, in a three-book deal, for ebook and omnibus publication, by Julia Aumuller at Thomas Schlueck Agency in association with Katie Shea Boutillier.

A Christmas Message by Anne Perry

Nov 012016
 

Cover for A Christmas Message by Anne Perry.Christmas 1900.

Victor Narraway, Thomas Pitt’s former boss and his new wife Vespasia are travelling by train from Jaffa to Jerusalem. Although enjoying their time together and the interesting people they meet, Vespasia soon becomes concerned that someone is watching their every move.

When one of their new acquaintances is found murdered, the only clue is a mysterious piece of parchment written in a foreign tongue, and a message imploring Narraway to continue the stranger’s quest. Sensing its importance, Narraway and Vespasia decide to fulfil their dead friend’s wish.

Continuing to Jerusalem with the parchment in hand, they quickly find themselves embroiled in danger. With Vespasia’s fears suddenly realised and a watcher on their trail, will Narraway and Vespasia’s fates follow that of their friend or can they make it to Jerusalem unscathed?

A Christmas Message is the tantalising new festive tale from the pen of Anne Perry, the master of Victorian crime.

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