Congratulations to DMLA authors who received Hugo nominations!
- Best Novel: Skin Game by Jim Butcher
- Best Fancast: Tea and Jeopardy by Emma Newman and Peter Newman
Apr 102015
April 10, 2015
Apr 092015
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller’s next two novels in the popular Liaden series, to Toni Weisskopf at Baen Books by Jennifer Jackson.
April 9, 2015
Apr 082015
Publishers Weekly: Downum (the Necromancer Chronicles) grounds this tale of friendship and love in a community of artists and magic users. When a ritual goes terribly wrong and leaves Vancouver artist Blake Enderly in a coma, his best friend, Liz Drake, and her stereotypically English boyfriend, Alex, travel to Vancouver to find out what happened to him. To save his life, Liz must navigate deadly magical peril in the waking world and undertake a quest in an equally dangerous dream world that leads her to Robert Chambers’s Carcosa and its ruler, the Yellow King. Downum’s narrative is packed to excess with artists and hangers-on, a dangerous drug with connections to the dream world, bloodthirsty maenads, and gun-toting cleanup artists specializing in supernatural mishaps. Readers eager for diverse characters will delight in the casually displayed variety of sexual and romantic orientations, including Liz’s comfortable asexuality. The vividly evoked bohemian, magical Vancouver and the haunting dream lands are largely secondary to the bonds of love, romantic and otherwise, among the novel’s likable, intensely beleaguered core characters.
April 8, 2015
Apr 062015
Publishers Weekly: Fresh and contemporary, this hybrid novel/comic packs a lot of plot in a relatively short book, but its strongest suit may be Priest’s keen understanding of the chasmic gap between the way teens and adults engage in the landscape of the Internet. Back in fifth grade, best friends May and Libby created Princess X, a katana-wielding heroine who wears Converse sneakers with her ball gown. Ever since Libby and her mother died in a freak accident, May’s life has been as gray as her Seattle homeuntil the 16-year-old spots a Princess X sticker in a store window, leading her to a Princess X webcomic that suggests that Libby might still be alive. With the help of Trick, a hacker-for-hire, May follows the trail that Princess X’s near-mythic narrative leaves for her, which incorporates Seattle landmarks like the Fremont Troll and characters like the dangerous Needle Man and the mysterious, helpful Jackdaw. Illustrations from the Princess X comic – skillfully rendered by Ciesemier and printed in purple – add greatly to this techno-thriller’s tension.
April 6, 2015
Mar 312015
Polish rights to Jim Butcher’s STORM FRONT and the next five books in the New York Times bestselling Dresden Files series resold to Mag Jacek Rodek via Milena Kaplarevic at Prava I Prevodi in association with Jennifer Jackson.
French rights for limited editions of Brent Week’s Night Angel trilogy, to Bragelonne, by David Camus at Anna Jarota Agency, in association with Katie Shea Boutillier, on behalf of Donald Maass.
German translation rights to Jim Butcher’s and Evil Hat Productions’ Dresden Files Roleplaying Game to Christian Loewenthal at Prometheus Games Verlag by Jennifer Jackson.
French rights to Robert Sheckley’s short story A MOUNTAIN WITHOUT A NAME, to Le Passager Clandestin, by David Camus at Anna Jarota Agency, in association with Katie Shea Boutillier.
March 31, 2015
Mar 272015
Jim Butcher’s Skin Game, the latest in the Dresden Files, spent its second week on the New York Times Best Sellers list!
Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional wizard, is about to have a very bad day…
Because as Winter Knight to the Queen of Air and Darkness, Harry never knows what the scheming Mab might want him to do. Usually, it’s something awful.
He doesn’t know the half of it… Continue reading »
March 27, 2015
Mar 232015
Cherie Priest’s BRIMSTONE, in which a shellshocked WW1 survivor may be receiving via the ashes of burned buildings love letters from his dead wife and seeks the help of a friendly medium in a historic spiritualist community as inspired by a real place and a real set of bizarre (otherworldly?) incidents, to Anne Sowards at Penguin Random House by Jennifer Jackson.
March 23, 2015
Mar 202015
Vision in Silver by Anne Bishop debuts at #16 on the New York Times Best Sellers Hardcover list, #20 on the NYT ebook list, and #40 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books List!
The Others freed the cassandra sangue to protect the blood prophets from exploitation, not realizing their actions would have dire consequences. Now the fragile seers are in greater danger than ever before—both from their own weaknesses and from those who seek to control their divinations for wicked purposes. In desperate need of answers, Simon Wolfgard, a shape-shifter leader among the Others, has no choice but to enlist blood prophet Meg Corbyn’s help, regardless of the risks she faces by aiding him.
Meg is still deep in the throes of her addiction to the euphoria she feels when she cuts and speaks prophecy. She knows each slice of her blade tempts death. But Others and humans alike need answers, and her visions may be Simon’s only hope of ending the conflict.
For the shadows of war are deepening across the Atlantik, and the prejudice of a fanatic faction is threatening to bring the battle right to Meg and Simon’s doorstep…
March 20, 2015
Mar 192015
The paperback of Skin Game by Jim Butcher debuts at #12 on the New York Times Best Seller list!
Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional wizard, is about to have a very bad day… Because as Winter Knight to the Queen of Air and Darkness, Harry never knows what the scheming Mab might want him to do. Usually, it’s something awful.
He doesn’t know the half of it… Continue reading »
March 19, 2015
Mar 172015
Two DMLA books were awarded a 2014 Earphones Award by AudioFile Magazine:
March 17, 2015