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June Translation Deals

Jun 302014
 

A picture of Earth from space.Russian rights to Karl Schroeder’s LOCKSTEP, to AST, by Alexander Korzhenevski in association with Cameron McClure.

Dutch rights to Anne Bishop’s first two novels in the Others series, WRITTEN IN RED and MURDER OF CROWS, to De Fontein by Moa-Lisa Björk at the Lennart Sane Agency in association with Jennifer Jackson.

French rights to Nnedi Okorafor’s KABU KABU, the short story collection, to Patrick Dechesne at Les Editions de l’Instant, by Pierre Corman at Anna Jarota Agency, in association with Cameron McClure.

Romanian rights to Jim Butcher’s STORM FRONT, FOOL MOON, GRAVE PERIL and SUMMER KNIGHT, the first four books in the Dresden Files series, to Hipgnosis Vision SRL, by Nada Cipranic at Prava I Prevodi, in association with Jennifer Jackson.

2014 Sunburst Awards Nominees

Jun 262014
 

cover for Nalo Hopkinson's Sister Mine. A beautiful and colorful surrealist painting of two women with dreadlocks, one a deep purple, the other a burnt orange, swirling into each other.Congratulations to Nalo Hopkinson on Sister Mine being nominated for a 2014 Sunburst Award for excellence in Canadian literature of the fantastic!

We’d had to be cut free of our mother’s womb. She’d never have been able to push the two-headed sport that was me and Abby out the usual way. Abby and I were fused, you see. Conjoined twins. Abby’s head, torso, and left arm protruded from my chest. But here’s the real kicker; Abby had the magic, I didn’t. Far as the Family was concerned, Abby was one of them, though cursed, as I was, with the tragic flaw of mortality.
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May Translation Deals

May 312014
 

earthGerman rights to Sharon Lee and Steve Miller’s CONFLICT OF HONORS, AGENT OF CHANGE and CARPE DIEM, to Atlantis Verlag in a three-book deal, by Kathrin Nehm at Thomas Schueck Agency in association with Jennifer Jackson.

German ebook rights to Robert Sheckley’s DIMENSION OF MIRACLES, to Heyne, by Kathrin Nehm at Thomas Schlueck Agency in association with Cameron McClure.

German rights to Brent Weeks’s novella PERFECT SHADOW, to Urban Hofstetter at Blanvalet, by Kathrin Nehm at Thomas Schlueck Agency in association with Cameron McClure.

German ebook rights to Robert Sheckley’s IMMORTALITY, INC., THE STATUS CIVILIZATION, MINDSWAP and OPTIONS, to Heyne, by Kathrin Nehm at Thomas Schlueck Agency in association with Cameron McClure.

Spanish rights to Chuck Wendig’s BLACKBIRDS, to Hidra, by Isabel Monteagudo at International Editors’, in association with Cameron McClure on behalf of Stacia Decker.

May Subsidiary Rights Deals

May 312014
 

a pair of black ear budsThe 1955 Pulitzer-Prize winning novel ANDERSONVILLE by MacKinlay Kantor, to Steve Feldberg at Audible, by Cameron McClure.

Congratulations to Claire Donally!

May 262014
 

Cover for Last Licks by Claire Donally. In the background is a grand mansion, complete with fountain and hedge maze. A cat walks up the garden path. In the foreground is a wheelchair with a red cushion, on which sits a cat cleaning its paw.Last Licks debuts at #23 on the New York Times Mass-Market Fiction Best Seller list!

When Sunny Coolidge’s curmudgeonly boss, Oliver Barnstable, lands in rehab after breaking his leg, Sunny is stuck shuttling between their offices in Kittery Harbor, Maine, and the facility where Ollie is recuperating. And if putting up with temper tantrums from her boss wasn’t enough, his rehab roommate, Gardner Scatterwell, is a shameless flirt.

But when Scatterwell dies unexpectedly in the night, Ollie is convinced it wasn’t from natural causes. He gives Sunny a new assignment—find out who killed the old tomcat.
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Prix Imaginales 2014 award for Best Translated Novel

May 212014
 

French cover for Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death (Qui a peur de la mort?). A stark black and white illustrated cover where birds, crocodiles, and camels outline a skull, with two people's profiles as the skull's eyes, a tree and a woman wearing a buzzard hat for the nose, and 7 silhouettes journeying across a stark desert makes the teeth.DMLA congratulates Nnedi Okorafor on winning the Prix Imaginales 2014 award for Best Translated Novel for her novel Who Fears Death? (Panini Books, translated by Laurent Philibert-Caillat).

2013 Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy

May 202014
 

Hopkinson - Sister Mine coverDMLA congratulates Nalo Hopkinson on winning the 2013 Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy for her novel Sister Mine!

2013 Bram Stoker Awards

May 152014
 

david-gerroldDMLA congratulates David Gerrold on winning the 2013 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction for his story “Night Train to Paris!”

Prix Imaginales 2014 nominee

May 122014
 

French cover for Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death (Qui a peur de la mort?). A stark black and white illustrated cover where birds, crocodiles, and camels outline a skull, with two people's profiles as the skull's eyes, a tree and a woman wearing a buzzard hat for the nose, and 7 silhouettes journeying across a stark desert makes the teeth.Congratulations to Nnedi Okorafor on the nomination of Who Fears Death for the Prix Imaginales 2014!

In a far future, post-nuclear-holocaust Africa, genocide plagues one region. The aggressors, the Nuru, have decided to follow the Great Book and exterminate the Okeke. But when the only surviving member of a slain Okeke village is brutally raped, she manages to escape, wandering farther into the desert. She gives birth to a baby girl with hair and skin the color of sand and instinctively knows that her daughter is different. She names her daughter Onyesonwu, which means “Who Fears Death?” in an ancient African tongue.

Reared under the tutelage of a mysterious and traditional shaman, Onyesonwu discovers her magical destiny-to end the genocide of her people. The journey to fulfill her destiny will force her to grapple with nature, tradition, history, true love, the spiritual mysteries of her culture-and eventually death itself.

Last Licks by Claire Donally

May 062014
 

Cover for Last Licks by Claire Donally. In the background is a grand mansion, complete with fountain and hedge maze. A cat walks up the garden path. In the foreground is a wheelchair with a red cushion, on which sits a cat cleaning its paw.When Sunny Coolidge’s curmudgeonly boss, Oliver Barnstable, lands in rehab after breaking his leg, Sunny is stuck shuttling between their offices in Kittery Harbor, Maine, and the facility where Ollie is recuperating. And if putting up with temper tantrums from her boss wasn’t enough, his rehab roommate, Gardner Scatterwell, is a shameless flirt.

But when Scatterwell dies unexpectedly in the night, Ollie is convinced it wasn’t from natural causes. He gives Sunny a new assignment—find out who killed the old tomcat.

And speaking of cats, Shadow, Sunny’s feline partner in crime, takes a peculiar interest in the rehab’s resident angel of death—a calico cat called Portia, with an uncanny talent for cozying up to patients right before they pass away. Together, Sunny and Shadow will have to nose out clues to discover if Portia’s jinx had anything to do with Gardner’s passing—or if all his catting around finally got him fixed.

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