Literary fiction readers are in for a treat. This week’s latest releases list is full of intriguing reads you won’t want to miss! The new releases list includes so many bestselling authors like Melanie Summers, Zora Neale Hurston, Maja Lunde, and many more. Enjoy your new literary fiction books. Happy reading!
Set off on an adventure to new worlds this week! This selection of new science fiction and fantasy books will surely please! Science Fiction fans should be excited about the latest from bestselling authors Evan Currie, Jesse Wilson, Mike Chen, and more. If Fantasy is what your library needs, you’ll be able to pick up the latest from P.G. Allison, M.D. Massey, E.A. Copen, Martha Carr, and more. Enjoy your new science fiction and fantasy books. Happy reading!
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, Adam Silvera, Anna-Marie McLemore, 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 Mae Adams, Anna Wiener, Colin O'Brady, and more. Enjoy your new biography and memoir books. Happy reading!
What can you tell us about your new release, Tracy the Fire Witch?
It’s a novella about a character I’ve created in the Missy the Werecat series. I thought I could use this story about how Tracy spends her spring break, dealing with terrorists over in Germany, to start a new series about Tracy. I hope to write future books focusing on her, outside of the adventures she has in the series about Missy.
What or who inspired you to become an author?
I've read lots of fantasy books about witches and werewolves and I really enjoy the genre but it always seems the focus is all about the supernaturals with their interactions with humans being almost non-existent, other than those humans who are "prey or food" (for vampires) or else those to hide from and avoid (for werewolves). Also, the werewolf books are all about the packs and the Alphas. What I wanted was a book where: "There is no pack, no pride of other werecats and no Alpha". So … I decided to write one, just to see if I could. I thought trying to write such a fantasy might be fun ... and, it was! I'm enjoying what I've created and it seems my readers seem to "get" what I'm doing and enjoy my books as well. Now, after seven books about Missy the Werecat, who is both a were and a witch, I thought I’d try a new series in the same world about her good witch friend Tracy, who is also a cadet at West Point.
What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?
I have many favorites and love to read books in a series by great authors. I’ll mention just a few, showing some of what I like:
The Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling
The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon
The Travis McGee Series by John D. MacDonald
The Psy-Changelings Series by Nalini Singh
The Mercedes Thompson Series by Patricia Briggs
And, here are some more authors whom I enjoy; I always read everything they write: Kelley Armstrong, David Baldacci, Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Lee Child, Sierra Dean, Jennifer Estep, John Grisham, Kim Harrison, Faith Hunter, Chloe Neill, Wayne Stinnett, Carrie Vaughn, Rachel Vincent and Eileen Wilks.
Say you're the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest? What would you want to ask?
I would never be host of a talk show; I’d be terrible. I would have loved to interview John D. MacDonald but he passed away years ago. He was such a prolific writer and each of his stories really holds your interest. Crime, suspense, human interest, hard-boiled thrillers -- he wrote so many things in so many ways. How did he do it?
What's your favorite thing about writing?
Not knowing when I start writing things just where the story will end up going. As I try to work through each situation which my characters find themselves getting into, possible scenarios and dialog will evolve and the result will often go places I’d never dreamed of. Then, of course, I go back and rewrite and edit and rewrite some more, but the storyline has emerged and it’s fun to see just what has happened.
What is a typical day like for you?
Some days I’m able to write and some days I’m not. There are so many other things going on, so it always depends. Work, family, friends, try to stay fit, try to change what I can’t accept and accept what I can’t change. You know … life!
What scene in Tracy the Fire Witch was your favorite to write?
I love trying to include some humor. Those scenes usually include Tracy’s soulmate John and the banter between the two of them often provides opportunities for fun and frolic.
Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?
Plan your work, then work your plan!
P.G. Allison is the author of the new book Tracy the Fire Witch.
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Parker S. Huntington is a USA Today Bestselling Author of contemporary romance. If you're a fan of her recent popular release Devious Lies or are just searching for a steamy new read to get lost in, we think you'll adore these latest romance books to read if you like Parker S. Huntington. Enjoy!
Release Date: January 7, 2020
The first book in the Playboy Prince Duet by USA Today Bestselling Author Nana Malone... I've been called a lot of things. Prodigal son. Black Sheep. Playboy Prince. Merciful is not one of them. But I don't care what you call me, as long as I get what I want and crave... and it's not the crown. She is the Princess I didn't see coming. I will give up anything to have her. Well... almost anything.
Release Date: January 4, 2020
He made a promise and I believed him. Brax Kent is a liar and shattered every piece of me. It was several years before I could go through a day without shedding a tear. Hate was the only thing I had left pushing me through the day. Then seven years later he shows up as my next-door neighbor... and he wants me back. Can I trust the man that ruined me?
Release Date: January 2, 2020
I was the girl that nobody noticed. But then everything changed when I moved next door to Parker High's most eligible bastard, Tristan Blackwood. Apparently being able to throw a football elevates you to god status around here. He could have had anyone he wanted but somehow all he wanted was to torment me. This devil in a letterman jacket only wants to be my nightmare. And when my pride isn't enough for him, he decides he wants my body.
Release Date: January 7, 2020
Leave Me Breathless: The Ivy Collection is a set of eight standalone love stories from bestselling romance authors. The collection includes Faceoff by Sophia Henry, Anti-Venom: Vipers MC by Ashley Lane, Saint's Angel by K.L. Humphreys, Legend by C.M. Lally, Catching Chase by Michelle Windsor, and The Change Up by Evan Grace.
Release Date: January 7, 2020
The third book in the Hard to Love series by USA Today Bestselling Author W. Winters... I knew I shouldn't have fallen for him and I'm not the only one to ever do such a thing. I know I am not an awful person for desiring his touch, his kiss, his everything. But I knew I shouldn't have. There's something about it being wrong that tempts me that much more.
Release Date: January 7, 2020
The second book in The Sexy Series by New York Times Bestselling Author Carly Phillips... Tanner Grayson is trying to outrun the demons of his past. He has the rap sheet to prove it. The only thing that keeps his anger in check are the men he calls brothers and the club he calls home. He had no business taking the sexy woman doing shots in his club upstairs. Now he knows one night will never be enough.
Have you been on the lookout for some new fantasy and science fiction novels for your New Year's reading list? You won't want to miss these amazing new releases from bestselling authors M.D. Massey, Mark Anthony, P.G. Allison, Jeffrey Freedman, Seanan McGuire, and C.J. Cherryh. Enjoy your new fantasy and science fiction novels!
Release Date: December 27, 2019
The fifth book in the Junkyard Druid Novellas series by bestselling author M.D. Massey. This short story collection includes three separate novelette-length stories in the Colin McCool series: Voodoo Ball, Prince Mark's Price, and Breaking Up Is Hard To Do. Start reading this exciting urban fantasy collection to learn more about a thieving slenderman, a dark wizard on a quest to save a comic book store, and a zombie corgi.
Release Date: November 19, 2019
The first book in the Alternate Reality series by Mark Anthony... The year is 2040. Automated systems and A.I. robots perform most work obligations. Many humans have lost their societal value and struggle with their new reality. Eric Ryan sympathizes with their hardship. Eric's career as a neuropsychologist ended after medical tech pushed him into obsolescence. He now works with the displaced as a community therapist. But one day a robot unexpectedly shows up looking for mental health services.
Release Date: December 23, 2019
Tracy is just about to start her spring break vacation from West Point when a nightclub in Munich is bombed by terrorists. The U.S. Government's special task force has asked her to join the team being sent to Germany. The team already has a witch and a couple of werewolves. Tracy will provide them with some added firepower and hopefully stir up the terrorists and make them scramble.
Release Date: October 12, 2019
What happens when two earthquakes occur 42 minutes apart in Chile and China? The end of the world... As he drives his rescue vehicle across the magma lake toward the destroyed volcanic generator's intake pipe, Arnold Spark wonders if his design is to blame for the catastrophe. Now he searches the globe for truth.
Release Date: January 7, 2020
The fifth book in the Wayward Children series by New York Times Bestselling Author Seanan McGuire... When Jack left Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children, she was carrying the body of her sister back to their home on the Moors. The same sister she murdered in a fit of righteous justice. But it seems death in their adopted world isn't as permanent as it is here. It is clear something has happened to Jack. Something terrible.
Release Date: January 7, 2020
The 20th book in the Foreigner series by C.J. Cherryh... Bren Cameron is a diplomat in residence, usually representing the ruler of the atevi state. But the dowager, Ilisidi, has been known to borrow his services from time to time. She has her own notions of how to solve the simmering hostilities in the south and will play one problem against another. She is betting the lives of the people on being right.
What can you tell us about your new release, Leave Me Breathless: The Ivy Collection?
Response from author KL Donn: My title, Command, is one of the books in the Leave Me Breathless Ivy Collection. It was originally titled Bought Bride and supposed to be released in Fiona Davenport's PVB Kindle world before the program closed in 2018. It's a spin-off of my dark romance series: The Adair Empire. While it has some scenes that could have gone to the dark side (Channeling my inner Star Wars here LOL) I kept it lighter, more contemporary. Viktor is an intense man who deserved the light Emmy brought to his life after he did some not so savory things in his younger days.
What or who inspired you to become an author?
Response from CM Lally: I've been influenced by a who and a what. First who: other Indie authors inspired me to be an author. Just seeing their reactions to my reviews and watching them post on Facebook about building the story up from overheard conversations to finding the perfect muse, it made me want a piece of that. It is an unbridled joy when a great review validates your time and efforts. For the what of inspiring me, it was the feeling of not being satisfied with some aspect of a story I was reading. My brain wanted it to go another way. Not to say my way would have been better, just what I expected with my experiences for their HEA or whatever was going on. I would become so invested in their story, I wanted control over it's middle or ending or whatever part I didn't like. So I decided to write my own.
What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?
Response from K.L. Humphreys:
When It Rains by Lisa De Jong
Lady Luck By Kristen Ashley
Scream for Me By Karen Rose
Yes to Everything By Shayne McClendon
Game of The Heart by Kristen Ashley
Say you're the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest? What would you want to ask?
Response from author Sophia Henry: I would have Stephen King as my first guest. (I like to aim high.) I'd ask him how he comes up with his ideas. I truly believe he is an unmatched genius in the modern literary world. It's absolutely amazing to me that he has consistently come up with so many high-concept ideas over multiple genres. He appeals not just to horror fans but also to the masses, evoking extreme emotion with stories such as Stand By Me, The Green Mile, and Shawshank Redemption.
What's your favorite thing about writing?
Response from author Sophia Henry: Being able to use my platform to connect with readers on a personal level. Sometimes I call my books "social commentary wrapped up in a happily ever after." It's important for me to use real issues we face every day in my stories. I love when readers tell me they empathize with characters, see themselves in a character, or want to be friends with my characters! I love when readers tell me my books helped them through a tough time in their life. I love when readers tell me my books helped them see a different perspective.
What is a typical day like for you?
Response from author Evan Grace: I get up at 6 every morning to get everyone up and ready for school and work. We’re a one car family so after I drop everyone off I go lift weights for about an hour. Once I get home I get cleaned up and then sit down to write for a few hours until it’s time to pick everyone up. After dinner I do some admin stuff then I write until about 9 or 10pm and then lay in bed, reading until I finally go to sleep.
What scene in Leave Me Breathless: The Ivy Collection was your favorite to write?
Response from Michelle Windsor: My absolute favorite scene to write in Catching Chase was when Jasper Chase finds out he has a three year old child from a woman he fell for four years earlier. There are so many emotions that I had to write; confusion, shock, anger, betrayal, in such quick succession. It wasn't anything I had written before, so it was a great new challenge, and I think it came out beautifully! Can't wait for everyone to read it!
Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?
Response from CM Lally: My motto for writing is "to do the story and characters justice". By this I mean...do the research needed, take time to find the perfect words by understanding where you want their story to go. It may be fiction but it's an escape and the feelings still need to be real.
Leave Me Breathless: The Ivy Collection is the new romance collection from KL Donn, Ashley Lane, Evan Grace, K.L. Humphreys, C.M. Lally, Natalie Hill, Michelle Windsor, and Sophia Henry.
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By Penelope Bloom
My newest book, Ruthless Love, is what's called a "bully romance". Even if you've never heard of a bully romance, it probably seems like a pretty wild jump to go from romantic comedies about bananas and cherry pies to writing about bullies falling for the girls they pick on. But hear me out!
As much as I love writing goofy, wild books that are designed to make you laugh while you fall for the characters, there's a catch to rom com: the humor comes with a cost.
I always think of it in terms of old sitcoms. It was really common for shows in the 90s and 80s to be filled with laugh track moments, but they would always try to get serious near the end and teach a lesson. Or there would even be "special" episodes that tackled a serious problem like a character's alcoholism or abuse. To me, it always felt jarring. I didn't usually turn on The Fresh Prince for an emotional rollercoaster like the episode where someone gets shot.
Those memories have stuck with me, and I always keep it in the back of my head when I'm writing. With my rom coms, I know why readers are in my book. They're looking for light-hearted fun and laughs. That means every time I get tempted to turn a plot arc more serious or darker, I have to ask myself if I'm wanting to do that selfishly or if it serves the purpose of the book. Almost always, it's just selfishness. It would be satisfying for me as a writer to explore something more deeply, but I have to admit it's not best for the book and let the opportunity slip away.
That brings me to this book. After over a year of exclusively writing romantic comedies, I've had a lot of built up desire to write something more serious and with a little more edge. Ruthless Love is the start of that series of books. As I hoped, it felt so therapeutic to write this, and it was one of the fastest books I've written in a long time for that reason. Back when I first switched from standard contemporary romance to romantic comedy, the same thing happened. I had this burst of excited energy when I jumped into the Objects of Attraction series that made the first three or four books fly by.
Back then, I had convinced myself that I needed to get over it. The Objects series did so well that I felt obligated to stay in the romantic comedy arena. I knew a bunch of new readers had discovered me because of those books, and it felt like I'd be confusing them and irritating them by writing something with a different tone.
Over time, I realized it was worse to keep forcing myself to chug away aht something that didn't feel natural. The books wouldn't be as good, because I didn't have that excited energy.
So that brings me here. Maybe it's not the wisest business decision from a "branding" perspective, but I'm going to keep chasing what makes me energized as an author. I've always had one belief as an author that I try to hold above anything else: Write the best books I can, improve and learn from my mistakes, and the rest will follow.
In that spirit, I'm so excited to bring my newest release to you all: Ruthless Love. If you've never read a bully romance or heard of it, the trope is pretty interesting. There's a pretty wide spectrum as far as how dark the books trend. Mine is definitely on the lighter side, but the main characteristic of these books is the characters tend to be younger, like in high school or college. Beyond that, the hero in the book is more of an anti-hero, and he bullies or enables bullying of the heroine to start the book. As in all romances, he ends up changing his ways and falling for her, but (to me) the thing that makes this trope so fun is how impossible it can seem to imagine the characters getting together at first. So it's all about creating that insanely thick wall between them and then watching them find ways to overcome it for the rest of the book.
I'm super thrilled with how this book turned out, and I hope you'll check it out. Thanks so much!
Penelope Bloom is the author of the new book Ruthless Love.
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What can you tell us about your new release, The Spark Anomaly?
The Spark Anomaly transports you to a world that is not so very different from our own. However, certain subtle differences have a huge impact on the characters, their situations, the environment, and the interactions between them. The characters are thrown into an action/adventure global mystery that they need to solve to save the world. The principal characters are:
I relate most to Cathy, because she reminds me of myself when I was in college, and I admire Soona the most for her grit and heart.
As an engineer, I had a lot of fun designing yet-to-be-discovered scientific laws and new technologies to permeate their world, but I tried my best to keep them in the background so as not to slow the story's pacing.
What or who inspired you to become an author?
I first started writing as a substitute for fulfilling my lifelong quest to create sentient life. Years ago, I designed software that simulated the evolution of an alien world. Through strict survival-of-the-fittest principles, life forms evolved that exhibited complex behaviors, including species that learned to ambush prey and hunt their parents. After watching these newly evolved creatures chase each other around my graphics screen, I knew that this approach was the best approach to one day create sentient life. I imagined spending the rest of my days designing ever more complex life forms.
However, after realizing that the effort to create sentient life would be massive, I decided instead to write my first novel, Prena's Eye, about a simulated world and my imagined success in creating intelligent life. Then once I had started writing, I fell in love with the process. Now I'm hooked.
What is your favorite novel?
My favorite novel is Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth. I love how Follett relentlessly drives the plot with lots of action, plot twists, and compelling three-dimensional characters while seamlessly weaving in historical facts and explanations of the technical challenges of cathedral building—without ever boring the reader.
I attempted to strike a similar balance in The Spark Anomaly by integrating a fully realized world set in 2067 with a fast-paced story, plot twists, and exciting characters.
Say you're the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest? What would you want to ask?
The last thing I would ever want to do is host a literary talk show. But if I had to choose a guest, I might pick Douglas Adams. I would ask him about the meaning of life, the universe, and everything. He should have better insight into those matters now that he's dead.
What's your favorite thing about writing?
The high I get from writing a novel is like the high I get from reading a novel, but with ten times the intensity. I delight in watching a new universe come to life. I fall in love with my characters. And even though I'm the cause of their misery, I sympathize with their situation.
What is a typical day like for you?
I try to write for at least an hour every day, first thing in the morning. Then I compete in an ongoing Internet-based stationary bike competition.
During my commute into the office, I daydream about plot lines and characters.
I spend the rest of the workday as the CEO and CTO of a pair of high-tech engineering companies I co-founded. I have over fifty engineers and programmers working for me.
In the evening, I go home to my wife and three children, where I typically referee my children's ongoing civil war.
What scene in The Spark Anomaly was your favorite to write?
I don't have a single favorite, but I enjoyed writing the Anechoic Library scene because it was an emotional turning point for my heroine. I also had a lot of fun designing the sound-canceling technology, imagining interesting ways that the system might fail, and then making use of that information in a poignant plot twist.
Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?
I'm not sure a single quote can sum up my philosophy on life, but I've always liked the Albert Einstein quote, "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
This quote rings true for me as both an engineer and a novelist.
I also like the quote attributed to Lucille Ball: "If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it."
I realize this statement is counterintuitive, but she was right. And I love working on too many projects.
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