April Translation Rights Deals

Apr 302022
 

Bengali rights to Hugo Award-winner Elizabeth Bear’s untitled short fiction collection, consisting of ten stories never before appearing in Bengali, to Kalpabiswa Publications, by Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.

Dutch rights to Annika Martin’s BREAKING THE BILLIONAIRE’S RULES & THE BILLIONAIRE’S FAKE FIANCE, to April Books by Emma Lind and Phillip Sane at Lennart Sane Agency on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure.

French rights to New York Times bestselling author Martha Wells’ THE WIZARD HUNTERS, THE SHIPS OF AIR, and THE GATE OF GODS, the Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy, to Éditions L’Atalante, by Megan Husain at Anna Jarota Agency in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.

German rights to Annika Martin’s BILLIONAIRE BUTTDIAL, to Lyx, by Sarah Knofius at Thomas Schlueck Agency on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure.

2022 Igynte Awards Finalists

Apr 282022
 

Congratulations to all our DMLA authors who were chosen as 2022 Igynte Awards Finalists!

Best Novel: Young Adult
A Snake Falls To Earth – Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)

Best Novella
Nothing But Blackened Teeth – Cassandra Khaw (Tor Nightfire)

Best Novelette
“The Music of the Siphorophenes” – CL Polk (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)

Best Comics Team
Abbott: 1973 – Saladin Ahmed (writer) (Boom! Studios)

The Ember Award (for unsung contributions to genre)
Tananarive Due

Deal: Iori Kusano

Apr 082022
 

Iori Kusano’s novella HYBRID HEART has been acquired by dave ring at Neon Hemlock in a World English deal via Jennifer Jackson. Rei is a pop idol in near future Japan with middling success trying to push forward in her solo career despite competition from Vocaloid-style digital singers. Haunted by both guilt and the insidious manipulations of a controlling talent manager, Rei is forced to question what parts of herself—and those around her—she will sacrifice on the path to success. Neon Hemlock will publish in their 2023 novella series.

The Storm Beneath a Midnight Sun by Alexander Dan Vilhjálmsson

Apr 072022
 

The standalone follow up to Shadows of the Short Days is a gritty, dark fantasy novel for fans of China Mieville and Neil Gaiman, that will thrill readers as they explore Hrimland’s dark, horrifying depths.

CHANGE DOES NOT ALWAYS HAPPEN FOR THE BETTER.

War on the mainland is draining Reykjavík. For some, the remote islands off Hrímland’s coast are their only hope of survival.

Elka, a recovering addict, has fled there with her son Sölvi. In their village they find a new life – all thanks to the Deep, a peculiar power their neighbours praise for the booming fishing industry. Everything seems perfect, but Sölvi does not trust the people who take his mother in.

Kari is a professor of sorcery, recruited for a career-making venture – an excavation of an ancient power. He must go deep into the magical wasteland, find what is buried there, and turn the tide of the war forever.

But the world might not be ready for the storm he will unearth . . . and how far will a grieving woman go to find some peace, and what will she sacrifice?

Review: Trouble with the Cursed by Kim Harrison

Apr 042022
 

Publishers Weekly: Following 2020’s Million Dollar Demon, the 17th installment of Harrison’s Hollows series proves that heroine Rachel Morgan’s adventures are far from over, with a new set of complications expanding her circle of influence and magical skills. After transforming the vampire Constance into a mouse, witch-born demon Rachel acts in her name while secretly running Cincinnati with her partner in crime, Pike. As the demon subrosa, Rachel is responsible for keeping the city’s supernatural population in line, but her position remains tenuous. When a vampire representative from D.C. arrives to meet with Constance, Rachel must find a way to cover Constance’s absence without revealing her own involvement and while avoiding accusations of murder. Meanwhile, the local demons start acting up, with Rachel’s housemate, Hodin, behaving suspiciously and another apparently kidnapping mortals. And with her closest friends distracted by their own lives, Rachel is especially vulnerable when an unexpected foe makes their true agenda clear at last. More personal subplots—including Rachel’s upcoming wedding to the elf businessman Trent Kalamack—move forward at a leisurely pace, while the return of Rachel’s best friend, Ivy, offers a welcome adjustment to the cast dynamic. Fans will be pleased to see plenty of life left here.

March Translation Rights Deals

Mar 312022
 

French rights to New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop’s CROWBONES, a novel of the Others, to Bragelonne, by Megan Husain at the Anna Jarota Agency in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.

German rights to Lara Elena Donnelly’s AMBERLOUGH, to Cross Cult, by Sarah Knofius at Thomas Schlueck Agency, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier, for Caitlin McDonald.

German rights to Robert McCammon’s FREEDOM OF THE MASK, to Luzifer, by Sarah Knofius at Thomas Schlueck Agency, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier, for Cameron McClure.

Taiwanese/Complex Chinese rights to Micaiah Johnson’s THE SPACE BETWEEN WORLDS, to Apex, by Gray Tan at The Grayhawk Agency, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier, for Cameron McClure.

 

2021 Nebula Award Nominees

Mar 112022
 

Congratulations to all our DMLA authors who have been chosen as 2021 Nebula Award Nominees!

Nebula Award for Novel

  • Machinehood, S.B. Divya (Saga)

Nebula Award for Novella

  • And What Can We Offer You Tonight, Premee Mohamed (Neon Hemlock)
  • The Necessity of Stars, E. Catherine Tobler (Neon Hemlock)

Nebula Award for Short Story

  • “Proof by Induction”, José Pablo Iriarte (Uncanny 5–6/21)
  • “Laughter Among the Trees”, Suzan Palumbo (The Dark 2/21)

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

  • A Snake Falls to Earth, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)

“Author Martha Wells graciously declined her nomination as a novella finalist this year for Fugitive Telemetry: Murderbot Diaries, Book 6, published by Tordotcom. Wells felt that the Murderbot Diaries series has already received incredible praise from her industry peers and wanted to open the floor to highlight other works within the community.”

Crowbones by Anne Bishop

Mar 082022
 

In this engrossing and gripping fantasy set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Others series, an inn owner and her friends must find a killer—before it’s too late.…

Crowbones will gitcha if you don’t watch out!

Deep in the territory controlled by the Others—shape-shifters, vampires, and even deadlier paranormal beings—Vicki DeVine has made a new life for herself running The Jumble, a rustic resort. When she decides to host a gathering of friends and guests for Trickster Night, at first everything is going well between the humans and the Others.

But then someone arrives dressed as Crowbones, the Crowgard bogeyman. When the impostor is killed along with a shape-shifting Crow, and the deaths are clearly connected, everyone fears that the real Crowbones may have come to The Jumble—and that could mean serious trouble.

To “encourage” humans to help them find some answers, the Elders and Elementals close all the roads, locking in suspects and victims alike. Now Vicki, human police chief Grimshaw, vampire lawyer Ilya Sanguinati, and the rest of their friends have to figure out who is manipulating events designed to pit humans against Others—and who may have put Vicki DeVine in the crosshairs of a powerful hunter.

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