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Film deal: Martha Wells The Murderbot Diaries to Apple TV+

Dec 162023
 

Photo By Lisa Blaschke

Deadline: Martha Wells’ bestselling Hugo- and Nebula Award-winning book series The Murderbot Diaries, is being adapted by Chris and Paul Weitz (About a Boy) and Paramount Television Studios.

Apple TV+ has picked up 10 episodes starring and executive produced by Emmy winner Alexander Skarsgård (Succession). The Weitz brothers are writing, directing and producing under their Depth of Field banner. Andrew Miano also executive produces alongside for Depth of Field. David S. Goyer executive produces alongside Keith Levine for Phantom Four. Wells will serve as consulting producer. Wells is represented by Jennifer Jackson at the Donald Maass Literary Agency and WME.

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Review: Exordia by Seth Dickinson

Dec 132023
 

Publishers Weekly: Survival is the measure of success for people overwhelmed by alien forces in this adroit alternate history of first contact from fantasist Dickinson (the Baru Cormorant trilogy). Anna Sinjari, a Kurd living in 2013 New York City, finds an eight-headed extraterrestrial casually snacking on turtles in Central Park. Bound soul to soul by a mysterious alien force, Anna and Ssrin, who turns out to be a rebel from the Exordia galactic empire, attempt to recover a crashed spaceship and avoid the enforcers coming to nab Ssrin. The trail leads them back to Kurdistan, where Anna must confront her mother, Khaje, and fellow villagers, who are all still wary of Anna after she made a devil’s bargain to help them survive an Iraqi-led genocide. The rest of the world notices their struggle, bringing in a swarm of special forces units and nuclear-armed aircraft to an otherwise peaceful countryside. Layering in a bromance, an odd-couple pair of female physicists, an Iranian fighter pilot with a Top Gun obsession, and mother-daughter conflict, Dickinson skillfully puts the cosmic scale of the Exordian rebellion into manageably personal terms. With cool alien technology, admirably hopeful heroes, and SFF pop culture references littered throughout, this will have readers hooked. 

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Amazon Best SFF of 2023!

Dec 112023
 

Congratulations to DMLA author, Martha Wells, for her book WITCH KING which was named as one of Amazon’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2023!

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Congratulations to Martha Wells!

Dec 012023
 

The latest Murderbot Diaries, SYSTEM COLLAPSE by Martha Wells, is a New York Times best seller, debuting at #12 (hardcover) and #4 (combined hardcover and ebook)!

Everyone’s favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells’s bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series.

Am I making it worse? I think I’m making it worse.

Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there’s an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza can’t have the planet, they’re sure as hell not leaving without something. If that something just happens to be an entire colony of humans, well, a free workforce is a decent runner-up prize.

But there’s something wrong with Murderbot; it isn’t running within normal operational parameters. ART’s crew and the humans from Preservation are doing everything they can to protect the colonists, but with Barish-Estranza’s SecUnit-heavy persuasion teams, they’re going to have to hope Murderbot figures out what’s wrong with itself, and fast!

Yeah, this plan is… not going to work.

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November Translation Deals

Nov 302023
 

Annika Martin’s THE GRUMPY BILLIONAIRE, Book 8 of Billionaires of Manhattan series,  to Petra Kruijt at April (The Netherlands), by Vere Bank at Sebes & Bisseling, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure.

Spanish rights to Jo Walton’s NECESSITY, to Duermevela, by Amaiur Fernandez at International Editors’, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure.

Ukrainian rights to New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher’s STORM FRONT, FOOL MOON and GRAVE PERIL, the first three novels in the Dresden Files series, to Art Publishers “Nebo” LLC, by Sanja Stefanjesko at Prava i Prevodi in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.

French rights to Nnedi Okorafor’s BINTI TRILOGY, WHO FEARS DEATH and THE BOOK OF PHOENIX, to Livre de Poche, by Sarah Dray at Anna Jarota Agency, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Donald Maass.

French rights to Nnedi Okorafor’s NOOR, to Rivages, by Sarah Dray at Anna Jarota Agency, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Donald Maass.

Japanese rights to New York Times bestselling author Martha Wells’ SYSTEM COLLAPSE, the seventh book in the Murderbot Diaries series, to Tokyo Sogensha, by Shreya De Sousa at The English Agency (Japan) in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.

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Congratulations to Jim Butcher!

Nov 222023
 

We are thrilled to share that Jim Butcher’s THE OLYMPIAN AFFAIR is a New York Times bestseller, coming in at #15 for hardcover and #14 overall!

The fate of the Cinder Spires may be decided by crossed swords in the next exhilarating fantasy adventure from the author of the Dresden Files, in this New York Times bestselling series of noble families, swordplay, and airships.

For centuries the Cinder Spires have safeguarded humanity, rising far above the deadly surface world. Within their halls, aristocratic houses rule, developing scientific marvels and building fleets of airships for defense and trade.

Now, the Spires hover on the brink of open war.

Everyone knows it’s coming. The guns of the great airship fleets that control the skies between the last bastions of humanity will soon speak in anger, and Spire Albion stands alone against the overwhelming might of Spire Aurora’s Armada and its new secret weapon–one capable of destroying the populations of entire Spires.

A trading summit at Spire Olympia provides an opportunity for the Spirearch, Lord Albion, to secure alliances that will shape the outcomes of the war, and to that end he dispatches privateer Captain Francis Madison Grimm and the crew of the AMS Predator to bolster the Spirearch’s diplomatic agents.

It will take daring, skill, and no small amount of showmanship to convince the world to stand with Spire Albion–assuming that it is not already too late.

 

 

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2023 Goodreads Choice Awards : opening nominees

Nov 202023
 

Congratulations to the following DMLA authors for being nominated for the 2023 Goodreads Choice Awards!

BEST FANTASY

  • Martha Wells – WITCH KING

BEST SCIENCE FICTION

  • Martha Wells – SYSTEM COLLAPSE

BEST HORROR

  • Tananarive Due – THE REFORMATORY
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Audible’s 12 Best Sci-Fi Listens of 2023

Nov 172023
 

Huge shout-out to DMLA author, Martha Wells and her book, System Collapse for being named as an Audible Best Listen of 2023!

“In this second full-length novel in the series, Martha Wells’s Murderbot shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, this may just be the most vulnerable we’ve seen our favorite ruthless killing construct. Kevin R. Free is similarly unstoppable as a performer. AI has never had so much heart.”

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