Happy Valentine’s Day! Sort of.   If your heart is as black as night, may I suggest an alternative romance that will send a different kind of shiver down your spine: Dead Girl Running  [HQN, April 24*] from romantic suspense heavy-hitter, Christina Dodd. Even the romance naysayers won’t be able to resist the book that Booklist says in its starred review is a “guaranteed keep the-lights-on-late read.”   Enjoy the read? (read more…)

Great news from ALA Midwinter! We are thrilled to announce that Tasha Kavanagh’s Things We Have in Common [MIRA Books] is a 2018 YALSA Alex Award winner! For more about the book and an excerpt, visit our sister site, BookClubbish.   Fifteen-year-old Yasmin Doner is a social misfit who yearns for a sense of belonging, finding comfort only in food and the fantasy of being close to Alice Taylor, a girl (read more…)

Congratulations to Benjamin Ludwig, whose critically acclaimed novel and LibraryReads Pick Ginny Moon [Park Row Books] was selected for the Texas Librarian Association 2018 Lariat Reading List! If you are attending TLA in Dallas this year, don’t miss the chance to hear the author speak at the Lariat session on April 5th. Stay tuned for more details!   GREAT NEWS FOR BOOK CLUBS! The beloved Ginny Moon is now available in paperback. (read more…)