Congratulations to the following DMLA titles for making the final ballot for the 2024 Dragon Awards!
Best Science Fiction Novel
Best Fantasy Novel (Including Paranormal)
Best Horror Novel
Chinese (simplified) rights to New York Times bestselling author Martha Wells’ WITCH KING, to Science Fiction World, by Gray Tan at Grayhawk Agency in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.
Chinese (complex) rights to New York Times bestselling author Martha Wells’ WITCH KING, to Gaea, by Gray Tan at Grayhawk Agency in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.
LJ Andrews’s THE EVER SEAS series, in a three-book deal, to Kossuth (HUNGARY); also to Artline Studios (BULGARIA), by Milena Kaplarevic at Prava I Prevodi, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier.
Spanish rights to Jo Walton’s AMONG OTHERS, to Duermevela, by Amaiur Fernandez at International Editors’, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure.
Turkish rights to Nnedi Okorafor’s WHO FEARS DEATH and AKATA WOMAN, to Ithaki, by Merve Ongen at Anatolialit Agency, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Donald Maass.
French rights to Robert Jackson Bennett’s novella TO BE READ UPON YOUR WAKING, to Le Belial, by Sarah Dray at Anna Jarota Agency, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure.
The finalists for the 2024 Ignyte Awards have been announced, and we are so excited to see so many DMLA authors on the list! Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera, C.L. Polk, R.S.A. Garcia, and Premee Mohamed!
Outstanding Novel: Adult
Outstanding Novelette
Outstanding Short Story
Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works
The shortlist for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction has been announced! We’re excited to share that three of our DMLA authors have been listed for their following works!
Publishers Weekly: This swashbuckling, planet-hopping riff on The Count of Monte Cristo from Palumbo (Skin Thief) follows Virika Sameroo, who, having emigrated as a child from the Exterran Antilles to Invicta, the capital planet of the Æerbot Empire, is determined to break through the poverty and prejudice that centuries of colonization have inflicted on her people. She becomes the first Exterran Antillean commissioned to an Æerbot spaceship, the Oestra—but as a woman and an Exterran, Virika is not trusted by her crew, and one officer in particular, Lieutenant Lyric, despises her for refusing his sexual advances. When Oestra’s captain falls ill and puts Virika in command, she brings the ship home to visit her mother and her lover. Their reunion is cut short when the captain dies—and Virika is arrested for his murder. Wrongfully sentenced to life in prison, she plots revenge against the empire. After escaping, briefly joining a band of pirates, and taking on the sobriquet the Countess, she leads the Antilleans into a rebellion against Invicta. Palumbo’s post-colonial space opera take on Dumas’s novel moves at a whiplash-inducing pace. Evocative descriptions, especially of food, add texture, though a late twist disappoints. It’s not perfect, but fans of speculative revamps of classics will find plenty to enjoy.
Audio rights to Robert McCammon’s LEVIATHAN to Louise Quayle at Audible, by Katie Shea Boutillier, for Cameron McClure.
Abridged/dramatic audio rights to New York Times bestseller Jim Butcher’s STORM FRONT and three additional titles in the Dresden Files series, to Anji Cornette at Graphic Audio by Jennifer Jackson and Michael Curry.
Many congratulations to DMLA authors, Martha Wells and Vajra Chandrasekera, on their 2024 Locus Awards!
SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL
FANTASY NOVEL
FIRST NOVEL
Join us in congratulating DMLA authors, Tananarive Due and Cassandra Khaw, for being nominated for the 2023 Shirley Jackson Award!
Novel
Novella
Locus: Like Elatsoe, Sheine Lende is much more chill than your typical YA fantasy or YA mystery. The stakes are high, but it never feels stressful. There is little on-the-page violence, and even when things get heavy or dangerous, the reader always feels safe. Little Badger guides the reader through a fascinating world. The pace is gradual without being too slow, and is light on action. Things take the time they take. Little Badger doesn’t skip the reader ahead or speed things up for the sake of drama.
The enlivening follow-up to the award-winning sensation The Annual Migration of Clouds.
Traveling alone through the climate-crisis-ravaged wilds of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains, 19-year-old Reid Graham battles the elements and her lifelong chronic illness to reach the utopia of Howse University. But life in one of the storied “domes” — the last remnants of pre-collapse society — isn’t what she expected. Reid tries to excel in her classes and make connections with other students, but still grapples with guilt over what happened just before she left her community. And as she learns more about life at Howse, she begins to realize she can’t stand idly by as the people of the dome purposely withhold needed resources from the rest of humanity. When the worst of news comes from back home, Reid must make a choice between herself, her family, and the broken new world.
In this powerful follow-up to her award-winning novella The Annual Migration of Clouds, Premee Mohamed is at the top of her game as she explores the conflicts and complexities of this post-apocalyptic society and asks whether humanity is doomed to forever recreate its worst mistakes.