Are you an avid reader of Young Adult books? This week you are in luck! With all of these new novels, you’re bound to find a new favorite book to add to your reading list. This week includes new novels from bestselling authors Ransom Riggs, Ashley Shuttleworth, Mindy McGinnis, and many more. Enjoy your new young adult books. Happy reading!
Looking for some new biography and memoir books for your library? There are so many new releases this week that you’re bound to find a new favorite. You can pick up new books from Kevin Garnett, Hermione Lee, Jason Dearen, and many more. Enjoy your new biography and memoir books. Happy reading!
In the spirit of celebrating Black History Month, the NewInBooks team has compiled a list of new releases by Black authors. From biographies to steamy romances, literary fiction to young adult, we've got something for every book worm. Please enjoy our selection and let us know if you have any recommendations!
Are you a fantasy reader looking for a new world to explore? We've found some amazing new releases from bestselling authors Kenney Myers, Genevieve Gornichec, Terry Mancour, Sarah J. Maas, Dianna Love, Sarah Noffke and Michael Anderle. Check out our latest fantasy book recommendations for your reading list!
Release Date: January 30, 2021
Jon Bragg enjoys a quiet life in the small town of Grinwell, Iowa. He has loving parents, a typical, bratty little sister, and a best friend named Marc Miller, who is so fascinated by Norse mythology that everyone at school calls him Thor; mostly to tease him, but he doesn't mind. However, when Jon turns sixteen, a new kid arrives, stirring up a whirlwind of trouble, and Jon and Marc find themselves caught in the middle of a hunt for demigods and their blue essence.
Release Date: February 9, 2021
Angrboda’s story begins where most witches' tales end: with a burning. A punishment from Odin for refusing to provide him with knowledge of the future, the fire leaves Angrboda injured and powerless, and she flees into the farthest reaches of a remote forest. There she is found by a man who reveals himself to be Loki, and her initial distrust of him transforms into a deep and abiding love.
Release Date: February 1, 2021
It is said by some that the Spellmonger’s exile to the Magelaw left Sevendor, the City of Magic, unprotected in his absence. That would be untrue, for though the mightiest mage of the era was forced by law and custom to refrain from visiting his realm in Castal, he left behind a significant body of learned and dedicated colleagues to continue his policies and see to the protection of the magelands. These were not all warmagi, nor even High Magi; indeed, the strength of Sevendor depended on magi of all types and descriptions.
Release Date: February 16, 2021
The fifth book in A Court of Thorns and Roses Series by New York Times Bestselling Author Sarah J. Maas... Nesta Archeron has always been prickly-proud, swift to anger, and slow to forgive. And ever since being forced into the Cauldron and becoming High Fae against her will, she's struggled to find a place for herself within the strange, deadly world she inhabits. Worse, she can't seem to move past the horrors of the war with Hybern and all she lost in it.
Release Date: February 16, 2021
Faced with losing the only grimoire volume Daegan has or turning his back on Casidhe, he makes a surprising choice. Time is literally running out of an hourglass for Casidhe to prove her value to Queen Maeve or face never leaving TÅμr Medb, but to hand the crazy queen a grimoire volume would destroy humans and nonhumans. Reese finds a place to stay away from those she cares for in Atlanta while hunting the origin of demons flooding the city, but she’s not as adept at hiding as she thinks.
Release Date: January 1, 2021
The 11th book in The Exceptional S. Beaufont Series... A secret has long been buried. And when it’s uncovered, the real history of the dragonriders will change everything. The most powerful magical creatures in the world, have long been hated—by most. With great authority, comes many who will challenge it. The new generation of dragonriders face many of the same problems as their ancestors. And it’d difficult to take hold of the world, when they are fighting amongst themselves. The Rogue Riders haven’t gone away.
Lexi Blake is a New York Times Bestselling Author of contemporary romance and romantic suspense novels. Some of her recent popular releases include: Submission Impossible, No Love Lost, Stealing Summer, and Happily Ever After in Bliss. If you've been searching for some new romance novels for your reading list, don't miss these books to read for fans of Lexi Blake. Enjoy your new books!
Release Date: January 21, 2021
The first book in the Throne Duet by Rina Kent... In the mafia world, women don’t reign. I’m the exception of that rule. I didn’t choose this life, it chose me. I have a legacy to protect, a power to snatch, and no one will stop me. If an arranged marriage is what it’ll take to lead, then so be it. What I don’t count on is that my chosen husband is a ghost from my past. Kyle Hunter. He was once my guard, my protector. Now, he’s after my kingdom. The road to the throne is paved with thorns, blood, and casualties. To win, I’ll risk it all. My heart included.
Release Date: February 11, 2021
There's a thin line between love and hate. What happens when you fall for the one person you swore you wouldn't? Find out in Anyone But You! 20+ full-length, steamy, enemies-to-lovers romance novels by 20+ authors. 100% of the proceeds will benefit End the Backlog!
Release Date: February 11, 2021
The fifth book in The Callahans Series by New York Times Bestselling Author Monica Murphy... Diego Garcia. Class bully. Football star. My boyfriend. I fell hard and fast for the resident bad boy and he fell just as hard for me too. We were the perfect couple, until things turned sour. Senior year and we’re both super busy. He has football. I have volleyball. Soon enough, I hear the rumors - Diego’s cheating on me. After everything we’ve been through, I’m devastated. Breaking up with him was the hardest thing I’ve ever done.
Release Date: February 9, 2021
Nate Monson was gorgeous, obnoxiously wealthy, and a player. He was also the person who could destroy my world with a single decision. I walked into that bar looking for him. He saw me. I saw him. The chemistry sizzled between us, but no. I hated Nate Monson. I hated him with everything in me, even though my body did not. It didn’t matter. Nothing I wanted mattered. He thought I wanted to get laid. What I wanted was for him to disappear.
Release Date: March 1, 2021
Luna Rossi is a veritable crafting genius—she can bedazzle and bead so hard her Etsy site is one of the hottest in the world. So it’s only natural that Luna would convince her brother and his husband-to-be to compete on The Wedding Game, a “do-it-yourself” TV show, for the title of Top DIY Wedding Expert. As a jaded divorce lawyer, Alec Baxter scoffs at weddings and romance. But when his recently engaged brother begs him to participate in The Wedding Game, Alec grudgingly picks up a glue gun and prepares for some family bonding.
Release Date: February 11, 2021
The fifth book in the Anderson Billionaires Series by New York Times Bestselling Author Melody Anne... Crew Anderson has been keeping a secret from his family — a huge secret that he doesn’t know how to handle. But soon he learns he can’t face this situation alone. So he goes to Darla, the best friend of his brother’s fiancé, Daisy, who happens to be a social worker.
What can you tell us about your new release, Anyone But You?
Anyone But You is a box set made up of 25 authors who have come together to raise money for a charity. 100% of the proceeds will be donated to End the Backlog.
End the Backlog is a non-profit organization that was created to help victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse. Their main goal is to end the backlog of rape kits that sit in evidence lockers all around the United States waiting to be processed. You can find out more at www.endthebacklog.org.
What or who inspired you to become an author?
Danielle Jacks: Book signings dominated my social calendar in 2019. I loved meeting authors and readers who were as passionate about books as I was. It inspired me to want a bigger part in the book world. The ironic thing is that it was R.L. Kenderson’s My Cover Model that led me to finding the book signings.
Aubree Valentine: My 11th grade English teacher who nurtured my need for creative writing, Nora Roberts and my blogger buddies who gave me the kick in the butt to do it.
Heather Lauren: my creative writing teacher in high school. It started with a poem about an ally cat and turned very steamy once I read "My favorite half night stand" by Christina Lauren. Believe it or not it was my first steamy read and I've never been the same.
Hope Irving: As an introvert, fictional characters have always been my (imaginary) friends. Even as a kid, writing was my favorite pastime. A few decades later, my passion for calligraphy paired with a supportive husband to precipitate my debut work that I chose to write in English, although I’m a born and raised Parisian: an 8-book paranormal series!
What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?
Aubree Valentine: Ooo this is such a tough question. The Jessica Brodie Diaries Trilogy by Willow Summers counts for three lol. OH! AND Nora Roberts McCade Brothers series. (That makes six, but I can't cut even one!)
Danielle Jacks: Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles, Bully by Penelope Douglas, Feral Sins by Suzanne Wright, In the cards by Jamie Beck and Kiss an Angel by Susan Elizabeth Phillips.
Heather Lauren: Unraveling Him by Claire Kingsley, My Favorite Half Night Stand and Beautiful Stranger by Christina Laure, Every Breathe by Nicholas Sparks, and The Dare by Lauren Landish.
Hope Irving: The first book I ever read in English, which had a huge impact, was The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. Then: Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos, The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, The Deal by Elle Kennedy, and Him by Elle Kennedy and Sarina Bowen (the book that popped my M/M cherry).
Say you're the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest?
R.L. Kenderson: Suzanne Brockmann. She’s one of my favorite authors and she’s an inspiration.
Aubree Valentine: Nora Roberts, hands down (can you sense a pattern? Lol) because she's my unicorn and then QUEEN.
Heather Lauren: Claire Kingsley. I love her plot twists.
Hope Irving: Erin Morgenstern. I love her world building skills and magical words.
What would you want to ask?
R.L. Kenderson: “Who is your favorite character that you’ve written?” or “What is your favorite book that you’ve written?”
Aubree Valentine: What is your best advice to staying focused? Who's your favorite hero that you've written? Which heroine is most like you?
Heather Lauren: "If I were to ask about your current WIP what can you tell me?" Or "Which do you love writing more, romcom or your small town contemporary?"
Hope Irving: “What triggered the idea of this extraordinary circus and its star-crossed lovers?”
What's your favorite thing about writing?
R.L. Kenderson: The freedom to create my own stories and work in the comfort of my own home.
Danielle Jacks: This is going to sound nuts but talking to my characters. By the end of a book, I’m invested and it’s like we are friends.
Aubree Valentine: That moment when everything clicks and the words literally start flowing, and I can get lost in my own head with the characters.
Kyra Lennon: I love being able to bring ideas to life. When I find my stride with a new story, it feels like magic!
Heather Lauren: writing a story with characters I love and when I read it back I actually love it...is it bad that it always surprises me?" Lol
Hope Irving: “What triggered the idea of this extraordinary circus and its star-crossed lovers?”
What is a typical day like for you?
Danielle Jacks: Life is crazy at the moment. Every day is different. I work part-time and I have a daughter. I’ve joined a writing group and I try to take one day at a time.
Aubree Valentine: I wish it were more glamorous than this but, right now my days consist of waking around 8am and getting my b/g twins ready for cyber school and tending to all the fur babies. Then I'm supervising school most of the day and cramming in writing and working with my PR clients wherever I can.
Heather Lauren: since debuting February 3 2021 I've not found enough time in my day. Usually a night owl writer I've taken to getting up early, drinking my weight in coffee, marketing, getting my wonderful 3 children out of bed, fed and started on class online. I do more marketing on my phone then when I get my laptop back the real magic happens...interrupted a million times but magic still happens lol.
Hope Irving: I get to write the stories I want to read and then share them with other people, provoking emotions that I’ve never dreamed of.
What scene in Anyone But You was your favorite to write?
R.L. Kenderson: My contribution to the box set is My Guy Problem. My favorite scene to write was after the first time my hero trains my heroine and helps her stretch her muscles. It’s a little sexy and a little funny.
Danielle Jacks: I loved writing Dirty Kisses and Conflicting Wishes. I’m a new author and so far my stories have been YA. This is a steamy box set and I wanted to rip the band-aid off quickly so my opening scene is a striptease. I had so much fun unwrapping Damien, my leading man.
Aubree Valentine: It's def the scene in Hot Cop where Rhys is with his son and there is a complete blow out. That or the nightstand scene.
Heather Lauren: My novel is Un-Swipe and I absolutely LOVE these characters ❤ my favorite parts are when they are fighting and playing pranks on each other or the scene when my heroine goes after what she wants...in costume 😉
Hope Irving: I reserve some time each evening for reading, which helps to build my craft. As for writing, I learned to make time for it, since I still have a day job that pays the bills. I write whenever at home in Paris, France. No wonder the addition of French flare is irresistible to me! I usually write long hours during the weekend because I’m a painfully slow writer and that’s when I have the most time. The only requirement is music blasting through my noise-cancelling headphones, which is the most efficient way to create “my bubble” and set the mood for the chapter I’m writing.
Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?
R.L. Kenderson: “In the Book of Life, The answers aren't in the back.” ― Charles M. Schulz
Danielle Jacks: Live. love. Laugh.
Aubree Valentine: "Remember, hurting is feeling and feeling is living, and isn’t it good to be alive?" - Crashed, K. Bromber
Heather Lauren: "Fake it until you make it" no idea but as someone who is terribly shy sometimes I tell myself to pretend I can and then I get sh*t done even if it's outside my comfort zone.
Hope Irving: My contribution to the anthology is This or That. Although I stepped out of my comfort zone with my first M/M, I thoroughly enjoyed writing this enemies-to-lovers story. The first encounter between my characters was a lot of fun to write. This very early scene starts with an unsolicited kiss, a haunting cowboy hat, and unprecedented sensations… followed by a punch!
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What can you tell us about your new release, Hollywood Expats?
I wanted to write a novel that read like a real-life travelogue written by American expats in Europe. A bit of an homage to "Tender is The Night" and "The Last Tycoon," where I combined the Hollywood insider theme of "The Last Tycoon" with the Americans in Paris theme of "Tender is the Night." It's a tribute to F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hemingway but dragged kicking and screaming to the 21st century.
What or who inspired you to become an author?
My mom is a writer, and I started writing quite young. I wrote a novel in high school, but the manuscript is lost to history!
What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?
I'm a huge John le Carré fan, and my favorite book of his is "The Honorable Schoolboy." I try to re-read it every couple of years. I'm also a huge Graham Greene fan, and I think his novel "The End Of The Affair" is a modern classic. "The Razor's Edge" by W. Somerset Maugham has influenced my writing style the most (perhaps not for the best!) and made me a big fan of the unreliable narrator, or at least made me reject the idea of an omnipresent, all-knowing narrator.
Rounding up the list of my top 5 favorite books is 1984 by George Orwell (should be required reading at schools). For fifth place, it's a toss-up between "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad (an unblinking view into the horrors of colonialism in the Belgian Congo), "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville, for his love of whales (one of my favorite animals), and "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov, for some of the best prose ever written in the English language and the most unreliable of unreliable narrators.
Interestingly, both Conrad and Nabokov weren't native English speakers but ended up writing some of the most exquisite prose in the English Language. This is something that I take to heart as a non-native English writer who only writes in English (I'm from Venezuela originally).
Say you're the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest? What would you want to ask?
Since my most favorite authors are all gone, I'd have to be someone like Bret Easton Ellis for his great prose (even if his themes seem vacuous at first glance). I'd ask him if he thinks that his books represent the progression (or really, regression) of the American WASP male as F. Scott Fitzgerald idealized it, through a downward spiral that begins with "Less Than Zero" and culminates with "American Psycho" and "Imperial Bedrooms" as a reflection of America's decline by the corruption of its ruling class. Kind of like the fall of the Roman Empire due to the deterioration of its ruling class.
What's your favorite thing about writing?
Low budgets. If you want your character to drive a Ferrari and have a house on Mulholland drive, you can make it happen. And for free! Also, to preserve moments in time that can be read hundreds of years in the future and produce an emotional connection with a reader over the ages. That's how I feel when I read Dickens or Conan Doyle. It's an emotional connection across time, and there's something magical about that.
What is a typical day like for you?
I haven't really left the house since March 2020 due to Covid, so I've switched from dedicating time to my photography and filmmaking to focus more on writing and editing. I try to do some writing or editing every day when I'm working on a book.
I've also put a treadmill and a spin bike next to our balcony to workout with views of the Hollywood Hills as I watch a Netflix show in French or Italian to keep my mind busy learning something new every day.
What scene from Hollywood Expats was your favorite to write?
The scene where the French gangbangers show up was fun to write about because it was based on a real-life incident that wasn't much fun to live through! Also, the Eurostar scene was the catalyst to begin writing the book due to another real-life incident on the Eurostar train between Paris and London (won't give away any spoilers, you'll have to read the book!)
Do you have a motto, quote, or philosophy you live by?
It has to be carpe diem if Covid has taught us anything. Fortunately, it was my motto before Covid as well.
Max Milano is the author of the new book Hollywood Expats.
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What can you tell us about your new release, Jon Bragg Blue Essence?
I have always loved Norse myths and I haven't read a ton that were family friendly and covered a wider range of gods outside of Thor and Loki (they are great don't get me wrong). My goal was to bring Bragi to the forefront a bit more as controversial as he may or may not be depending upon who you talk to. I love the range of things that can be covered through his use of poetry and music to influence others.
What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?
1) The Mercy Thompson Series by Patricia Briggs
2) The Michael Vey Series by Richard Paul Evans
3) Mirror Lake Wolves Series by Jennifer Snyder
4) Prime Prophecy Series by Tamar Sloan
5) Jumper Book Series by Steven Gould
Say you're the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest? What would you want to ask?
I would love to talk with Patricia Briggs about the various challenges she had writing the Mercy Thompson series and just to ask about the path she took to reach success with that series. I would also like to know what other ideas she may have had that didn't take off as well as Mercy Thompson.
What's your favorite thing about writing?
I enjoy the lack of constraints on creativity. If you can think it, you can create it. I love the freedom that provides to just explore issues from different angles and find ways to make even ordinary situations seem interesting and relevant.
What is a typical day like for you?
I typically wake up at 4am and hit a quick workout (usually the rowing machine). I then get ready for work (I am the CTO of a startup) and work from 5:30am until around 5:00pm. I then go home and eat dinner with the family for an hour or so. After that, I am in my home office working on my latest project until 11pm or midnight. Rinse and repeat.
What scene from Jon Bragg Blue Essence was your favorite to write?
I love the descriptions of the scenes related to the big snow storm and just describing that for the uninitiated in Iowa winters.
Do you have a motto, quote, or philosophy you live by?
Fight the good fight. Basically, try to do the best to stay positive and provide positive messages and pick and choose the things I battle over very carefully. You can see that displayed prominently on my website and as a major part of my logo.
Kenney Myers is the author of the new book Jon Bragg Blue Essence.
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Hold on to the edge of your seat as we hunt for clues and solve the case with these exciting new mystery and thriller books for the week! There are so many bestselling authors with new novels for you to dive into this week including Mark Greaney, J.A. Jance, Charles Todd, and many more. Enjoy your new mystery, thriller, and suspense novels. Happy reading!
Looking to fall in love with some new romance reads? You’ll adore these exciting new novels! This week you can get your hands on books by bestselling authors Monica Murphy, R.L. Kenderson, Rina Kent, Lexi Blake, and more. Enjoy your new romance books and happy reading!
