Congratulations to Neil Sharpson as his book DON’T TRUST FISH wins the 2026 Indies Choice Book Award in the Children’s Picture Book category!
Apr 172026
Apr 092026
Tension simmers across the Nine Lands. In the capital, the people of Lordsgrave seethe with resentment after the horrors of the greyblood attack. Clan Adatali is in open rebellion against the king, and as war in the Feverlands rages on, a humble tree feller—who looks a lot like missing invoker Jinao Mizito—has not forgotten the promise he made to avenge his brother.
Meanwhile, in the shadows, the king’s daughter Lyela continues to move her pieces across the board. Can the people of the Nine Lands reclaim their stolen history and unlock the secrets that have been kept from them for centuries?
Apr 072026
When Poppy Hill was a child she was stolen from her family’s Montana homestead and taken to the land of the fae, where she spent more than a century as a cook in the Wild King’s castle. Now back in the human world, she works for a company that brokers fairy bargains, looking for loopholes in their contracts.
Then a bargain that Poppy is negotiating goes disastrously wrong and she has to return to the world she grew up in to try to rectify her mistake, facing danger, intrigue and a pesky ex-boyfriend along the way.
Mar 172026
Publishers Weekly: McCarty’s elegant and melancholy fantasy debut follows Poppy Hill, who in 1880, at the age of five, was abducted by faeries and taken to their world, called Otherside, where she grew up and became a cook for the Wild King. She was then returned to the human world in the modern day as a woman in her late 20s. Poppy now works as a consultant for the Montana branch of law firm Carter Lane, which negotiates contracts between humans who want extraordinary abilities and Otherside agents, who grant them—for a price. Her specialty is scrutinizing contracts for loopholes that Otherside can exploit. The plot kicks into gear when Poppy botches a case involving German anthropologist Gabriele Albrecht, who wants to trade her sense of taste for the ability to speak every human language, not catching a loophole that results in Gabriele being bound to serve seven years in Otherside. Now Poppy must return to Otherside to rescue Gabriele, risking her safety, her job, and her friends in both worlds. This desperate quest leads her into negotiations with her former lover, Elan, and a plot to depose a king. Wistful and witty with exquisite worldbuilding, McCarty’s sprawling epic challenges notions of identity, loyalty, and the places one calls home. It’s a thrilling start.
Mar 022026
Library Journal: In McCarty’s debut, a human named Poppy tries to prevent diplomatic chaos but gets caught up in Fae court machinations. Three years ago, Poppy was returned to the human world after 100 years of serving on the Otherside, in the land of the Fae. She works for an organization that handles legal bargains between humans and the othersiders. After growing up in the Wild Lands of the Fae, she isn’t adjusting well, and when a deal goes wrong, she seizes the chance to return to the Otherside and fix her error. However, Poppy soon realizes that the stakes of her mission are far greater than she thought and that the fate of both worlds may rest upon her choices. This is a fantasy with a distinctly unsettling edge, featuring Fae who can be dangerous and cunning. While the focus of the book is Poppy’s struggle to find a place in one world or the other and understand her previous life, the worldbuilding leaves room for more adventures to come. VERDICT For readers seeking fae-related fantasy with more intrigue and introspection than romance.
Feb 282026
Czech rights to New York Times bestselling author Martha Wells’ PLATFORM DECAY, the eighth book in The Murderbot Diaries, to Dobrovsky, by Nada Popovic at Prava i prevodi in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.
French rights to New York Times bestselling author Martha Wells’ PLATFORM DECAY, the eighth book in The Murderbot Diaries, to Editions L’Atalante, by Sarah Dray at Anna Jarota Agency in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.
German rights to Melissa K. Roehrich’s Avonleya series, to Vajona, in a two-book deal, by Sarah Knofius at Thomas Schlueck Agency, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier.
Latvian rights to New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher’s STORM FRONT, FOOL MOON, GRAVE PERIL, and SUMMER KNIGHT, the first four books of The Dresden Files, to Prometejs, by Tamara Vukićević at Prava i Prevodi in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.
Slovene rights to New York Times bestselling author Martha Wells’ NETWORK EFFECT and FUGITIVE TELEMETRY, the fifth and sixth books in The Murderbot Diaries, to Aktivni Mediji, by Tamara Vukićević at Prava i Prevodi in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.
Spanish rights to Ronald Malfi’s THE HIVE and COME WITH ME, to Lubre, by Elena Rodriguez at International Editors & Yanez, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure.
Ukranian rights to Sue Burke’s INTERFERENCE, to Lobster, by Tamara Vukićević at Prava I Prevodi, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Jennie Goloboy.
Feb 192026
Check out this amazing interview Nicole Glover gives on NPR’S All Things Considered about her new book, THE STARSEEKERS!
Feb 132026
It’s an incredible honor to see so many DMLA authors on the Locus 2025 Recommended Reading List! Congratulations all around!
SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS
- The Folded Sky, Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz)
FANTASY NOVELS
- The Tomb of Dragons, Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris UK)
- Angel Maker, Elizabeth Bear (Sobbing Squonk)
- A Drop of Corruption, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscape)
- Queen Demon, Martha Wells (Tor)
HORROR NOVELS
- The Library at Hellebore, Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire; Titan UK)
FIRST NOVELS
- A Song of Legends Lost, M.H. Ayinde (Orbit UK; Saga)
COLLECTIONS
- Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, Thomas Ha (Undertow)
- One Message Remains, Premee Mohamed (Psychopomp)
NOVELLAS
- The Orb of Cairado, Katherine Addison (Subterranean)
- The Oblivion Bride, Caitlin Starling (Neon Hemlock)
NOVELETTES
- “The Witch and the Wyrm“, Elizabeth Bear (Reactor 2/26/25)
- “Uncertain Sons“, Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons)
- “The City of Tears“, Molly Tanzer (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 4/3/25)
SHORT STORIES
- “In My Country“, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 4/25)
Jan 062026
In the 1960s, the world was caught up in reaching beyond our planet and into the cosmos. It felt impossible—but there was nothing science, math…and magic couldn’t make possible. The race to space was on, and the Moon was what everyone had their eyes on.
Including Cynthia Rhodes, a brilliant arcane engineer at NASA’s Ainsworth Research Labs. Talented in math and magic, she hosts a magical educational show… a job she took mostly for a chance to regularly see the dashing Theodore Danner, a professor of arcane archeology.
She is also an amateur sleuth—something that has run in her family for generations.
When a cursed museum curator nearly interrupts a broadcast of their show, Cynthia finds an eager sleuthing partner in Theo. Pairing up, they begin investigating the strange behavior of the curator and a mysterious theft at the arcane history museum—until one of Cynthia’s own coworkers perishes right in front of her in a major lab accident that endangers Ainsworth’s role in the space race.
Certain it was murder instead of an accident, Cynthia sees this as a separate case at first. However the more she and Theo investigate, Cynthia uncovers a surprising link between the two incidents. The museum theft and murder are part of a larger equation—one that includes deadly enchantments, rumored pirate treasure, a peculiar plant, and a dire threat to the space program as well as everything she holds dear.
The Starseekers is another rip-roaring adventure for the Rhodes family, who have been using magic to aid their community and solve mysteries since before the Civil War. The times may have changed, but a Rhodes once again finds themselves thrust into a world of murders, theft, sabotage, and curses, and this time the stakes extend to the stars themselves.
Dec 222025
Congratulations to Neil Sharpson and Robert Jackson Bennett as DON’T TRUST FISH (Sharpson) and A DROP OF CORRUPTION (Bennett) have been named as one Book Page’s 10 Best Books of 2025!
