2024 has flown by at lightspeed, what a tremendous journey it has been! Here are the books that have you laugh, cry, and gasp in astonishment all year long. FEBRUARY The Vibes: fiction that moves at a breakneck pace across the genre divide MARCH The Vibes: when life gives you lemons, Found Family get’s you... Read More

Aranya Jain is an editor who joins us from Putnam, Penguin Random House. Aranya has edited multiple #1 New York Times-bestselling authors, including David Ellis and the Clive Cussler franchise, as well as Bram Stoker long-lister Josh Winning and authors Kia Abdullah, Jennifer Herrera, Rachel Eve Moulton, and Hiyoko Kurisu. After growing up in London with... Read More

DAW Books acquires World English rights for THOUGHTS BE BLOODY, a queer and trans reimagining of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, if Hamlet took place at a magic school. In THOUGHTS BE BLOODY by Auden Patrick,  Horatio Bithersea has only ever felt safe at Elsinore, where his magic is not a threat, and he can freely live his life... Read More

DAW Books acquires HOUSE OF DUSK by Deva Fagan, a romantic epic fantasy featuring a fire-wielding nun grappling with her dark past and a young spy caught between her mission and a growing attraction to an enemy princess. Read More

Customized itineraries for every reader! Staycation with a book instead of overheating outdoors and celebrate those titles that make us want to drop everything and cancel those social plans every time. Starting with FLOATING HOTEL! Welcome to the Grand Abeona Hotel: home of the finest food, the sweetest service, and the very best views the... Read More

North American rights have been acquired by Executive Editor Navah Wolfe at DAW Books for a two-book deal starting with Idolfire, which will be published in March 2025 by DAW and Hodderscape in the UK. “Idolfire has been a dream project of mine for a long time now,” Curtis say. “Honestly, I can’t believe it’s going... Read More

DAW Books has acquired North American rights for Mad Sisters of Esi, a  stunning meta fantasy about the power of stories, belief, and sisterhood by Tashan Mehta.  In the vein of Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi and Italo Calvino’s If On A Winter’s Night a Traveler, Mad Sisters of Esi is told from the alternating POVs of... Read More

“…epic science fiction at its most genuinely epic.  Ruocchio has made something fascinating here, and I can’t wait to see what he does next.” —James S.A. Corey, New York Times-bestselling author of The Expanse novels DAW is thrilled to welcome back Christopher Ruocchio and books six and seven of the Sun Eater series!  Betsy Wollheim,... Read More

Katie Hoffman, Senior Editor at DAW Books, has acquired North American rights to The Serpent Called Mercy, a Malaysian Chinese-Inspired epic fantasy novel from debut author Roanne Lau.  Fans of the tense, dynamic action of The Witcher and Squid Games, and readers of Asian speculative fiction like works by Shelley Parker-Chan, Sue Lynn Tan, and... Read More