Today on the blog, we welcome back the amazing Heidi Heilig—author of the acclaimed The Girl From Everywhere—who returns with her sophomore series, For a Muse of Fire. The book is about Southeast Asian–inspired shadow puppets, necromancy, colonialism, and rebellion and is just as complex and delicious as that sounds. Heilig has been very outspoken […]
Two things today’s releases are gonna do in spades: help quench your thirst for more queer fantasy and crush your heart with the intensity of its contemporary. Grab yourself a warm cuppa something, maybe put that homework aside for “a few minutes,” and curl up with one of mid-November’s excellent new offerings.
Publishing pulled out some seriously big guns for this frontloaded penultimate month of 2017, from the explosive start of a new sci-fi series by New York Times-bestselling author Marissa Meyer to a welcome rom-com return from sophomore author Lily Anderson, and pretty much every single thing you can imagine in between. Looking to start a […]
Writing about YAs releasing from independent publishers is one of my favorite things, because you get to see so many premises and so much representation you rarely get from the bigger guys. What’s exciting us this year? Everything from historical time travel to an opinionated Twitter caricature come to life to 9/11 Truthers to pot […]