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 Scott Reintgen, L.E. Flynn, Cat Winters, 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 novels from Leander Kahney, Stassi Schroeder, Jeremy Cowart, and more. Enjoy your new biography and memoir books. Happy reading!
What can you tell us about your new release, The Circle: Taken?
After finding success as a USA Today & Washington Post bestselling author I decided to embark on a journey with a team of young adult writers to write an exhilarating new YA series. The result is a spell-binding adventure of friendship, love and unforeseen twists where the hero learns that our most dangerous enemies are often the people we trust the most. A captivating novel filled with forbidden romance and shocking betrayals that demands - Can One Decision Determine Your Destiny?
What or who inspired you to become an author?
Reading and writing have always been my favorite things to do. Books are an amazing escape. I love the idea of superheroes and believe that every one of us has a hero within us. In The Circle Taken, Alexia has to overcome multiple physical and personal obstacles to discover that she is a hero.
What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?
1. Harry Potter 2. Hunger Games 3. Outliers 4. To Kill A Mockingbird 5. Marvel Comics
Say you’re the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest? What would you want to ask?
Definitely J.K. Rowling. I would ask her how it feels to have had such a profound influence on the imagination and reading habits of countless children and adults around the world.
What's your favorite thing about writing?
Creating a new world and characters with a mix of fascinating personalities. They then come together to overcome impossible obstacles while building friendships, finding love and learning about themselves. I love creating unexpected twists and turns that leave readers guessing and on the edge of their seats.
What is a typical day like for you?
I write for about 10 hours a day. Right now I’m working on a screenplay, TV pilot, and the second book in The Circle Taken series. I try to run at least four miles a day for stress relief and to get creative ideas. On evenings and weekends I work with my team of young adult writers on story concepts and media marketing. We love to connect with readers via social media. More info about our team can be found at sagesask.com.
What scene in The Circle: Taken was your favorite to write?
Without giving away any spoilers, I loved the catalyst near the end where the main character, Alexia, has to decide which path to take. She has to choose between what’s best for her and what’s best for her team. Her decision changes everything and forces her to realize who really matters.
Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?
The destination is so much more rewarding because of our team’s journey together.
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What can you tell us about your new release, Bossy Biker?
Bossy Biker is so much fun! The moment Raider rolls into town and claps eyes on Blossom, readers are in for a wild ride. I think he knows he’s in trouble the second he finds her serving pie in her diner while wearing a wedding dress. Throw in a cast of loving but nosy townspeople, sex that’s hotter than anything coming out of Blossom’s oven, and a plethora of cheesy pie puns and you’ll find a book that you can’t put down until well past the happily ever after.
What or who inspired you to become an author?
I became an author because I had to get all these stories running through my head out! I’ve found the more I write, the faster my brain creates new plots and characters. It’s less a problem of coming up with new ideas, and more digging through and to find the best ones. I’ve always loved to read, too, which has been a big influence. I want to create the same escape into stories that I love as a reader.
What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?
Tough to narrow it down to 5, but here are the first that come to mind: Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum books, Fifty Shades of Grey, Kristen Ashley’s Rock Chick series, JD Robb’s In Death series, and Penny Reid’s Knitting in the City series.
Say you’re the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest? What would you want to ask?
Christian Grey and “Your red room or mine?”
What's your favorite thing about writing?
My favorite thing about writing is that I get to live vicariously through my characters. I can walk away from the wall of laundry my family piled up or the car that’s making that noise again, and dive head first into some crazy antics and wild adventures on the pages of my books. And I absolutely LOVE knowing I can give my readers that same escape hatch.
What is a typical day like for you?
It usually begins with hitting the snooze button one time too many and scrambling to get up and get the family fed, clothed and out the door before they miss buses, carpools, or commuter trains and have to stay home with me for the rest of the day. I workout for about an hour. Okay, it’s less a workout and more my dogs dragging me through the neighborhood as if they’re trying out for the Iditarod. But hey, it gets my heart rate up, so it counts, right?
Then it’s time to get down to serious business. I spend the afternoon fueling myself with a combination of sugar and caffeine with the occasional salad thrown in to appease the gods of good health while I work on coming up with over-the-top romance plots and doing my best to get the words on the page to match the pictures in my head. No easy feat! And by the time my family rolls in, I’m usually ready for a nap.
Evenings are family time. A mix of fun, games, and a bit of nagging to get homework done before I get to bed so I can do it all again the next day.
What scene in Bossy Biker was your favorite to write?
Bossy Biker might be my favorite book I’ve written so far, so it’s tough to pick just one scene. But if I have to choose, it’s when Raider thinks he’s going to protect Blossom from the town full of busybodies and instead sees that she has a bossy side of her own. While I think Raider fell for her at first sight, this is probably the moment he knew for sure that he loved her. I think all my favorite things about my books are in this scene—humor, heat, sexual tension, and all the feels.
Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?
There’s no problem that can’t be solved with a sense of humor or a pair of fuzzy handcuffs.
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What can you tell us about your new release, In the Doghouse?
In the Doghouse is a fiction book about a couple’s breakup from their dog’s point of view.
Skip is a rescued dog who wants to matter. He loves living in a blissful pack with his human couple, John and Lucy, and he has bow-vowed never to lose them. But when John walks out after seven happy years, Skip and Lucy’s world is turned upside down. Skip is determined to guide Lucy through her identity crisis, but he’s guarding a secret: he’s to blame for the breakup and her broken heart. Now, with the help of a hoarder neighbor, a stray cat, and a boy with autism, Skip must build a new pack for himself and Lucy before she discovers his canine treason and kicks him to the curb.
The idea for this novel came from a Story Genius course with Lisa Cron (author of Wired for Story and Story Genius) and Jennie Nash (founder of Author Accelerator). The first assignment was to come up with a simple “What If” question. Mine was: If a dog could talk, whom would he/she choose to stay with after their owners’ breakup or divorce?
Though the book is fiction, many dog-years ago, my first long-term relationship ended. We had a thirteen-year-old dog. We couldn’t ask him whom he would like to stay with. I’ve always doubted the decision (though purely for selfish reasons because losing my dog was the hardest part of the breakup—I’m sure my dog was happy and well-loved to his dying day).
I hope I have many more books in me, but I have a feeling that Skip, who is a Timber Wolf/Labrador mix, was the most interesting character I will ever write. Furthermore, I think I can talk to dogs now.
What or who inspired you to become an author?
The hope, escape, and clarity that came from reading books is what inspired me to start writing stories at a young age. The two most memorable childhood books were Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell where wild dogs raised a young girl, and The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. I wrote my first book when I was seven. It was about an Indian boy who all the children bullied. He comes out the victor. When I was fifteen years old, I handwrote two short stories about unrequited love (Ugh, high school angst ~1985) on college-ruled notebook paper. I tied blue yarn through the three-hole punches and mailed the stories to Seventeen Magazine. I never heard back from Seventeen Magazine.
What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?
I’m going to choose the top five books that have influenced me, but for a variety of reasons.
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, the Crossing, Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
Winter’s Bone: A Novel by Daniel Woodrell
The Room: A Novel by Emma Donoghue
Say you’re the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest? What would you want to ask?
This is a no brainer for me. Pretending to be a literary host, I should ask an author about their writing process, how they find their ideas, and more, but I’m a reader first, so I’d make it all about me and ask Cormac McCarthy why he had to write the outhouse scene that still haunts me years later. Seriously, Mr. McCarthy, why?
What's your favorite thing about writing?
My favorite thing about writing is the connection with readers, and other writers, that follows publication. And I’m not talking about praise or positive reviews. I’m talking about the personal stories a reader will share via email or private messaging when a character resonates with them.
But a close second favorite in the writing process is that writing reflects where I’m at in life. When I was younger, I could never have written In the Doghouse or Tiger Drive. What I write is a compilation of life lessons, questions, and evolving world views. I could never have written what I wrote these past few years, 20 years ago. And likewise, what I wrote 20 years ago, I couldn’t write today.
What is a typical day like for you?
After breakfast, I walk four minutes to my Washington, DC, neighborhood library to write or edit for four hours until lunch. I always stop for lunch with my significant other (he makes the best popcorn), and then I go to the gym (the sedentary life of a writer is unhealthy!). After exercising, I focus on marketing and outreach for a few hours.
What scene in In the Doghouse was your favorite to write?
My favorite scene to write for In the Doghouse was the last scene, and not because I could type “The End” but because I knew the end of the book before I started writing the first chapter.
Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?
Don’t wait for someday because it doesn’t exist. Make someday, today.
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What can you tell us about your new release, Free To Believe?
Completely able to be enjoyed as a standalone, Free to Believe is the fourth full-length book in my Amaryllis Series. Emily Freeman is a wedding dress designer whose artistic inspiration is failing her at the most inopportune time. With the support of her family, she takes a hiatus from their wedding and event planning business - Amaryllis Events - in order to locate it. On that journey, her path crosses with Jake Madison. Jake is a single father to a teenager; both of whom are embittered from his long ago divorce. From their first meeting, Em and Jake set off sparks that don't let up the entire book.
What books are currently on your night stand?
My night stand couldn't hold my reading material! I use the dining room table and rotate in. I'm presently reading the newest poetry volume from r.h. Sin (which has to be internalized slowly), the Certified Information Security Manager All-in-One Exam Guide (let's call this research), a copy of Psychology Today, Food Network Magazine, and Magnolia Journal. There's more, but that's what's currently on top of the stack.
What advice would you give your teenage self?
Celebrate the fact you're not perfect. No one is. It's what makes you beautiful.
If you had an extra hour each day, how would you spend it?
Since I live in Florida, I'd be in the pool every day with my husband and son!
What makes your world go round? Why does it bring you joy?
My husband and son make the world go round. My soul wouldn't be complete without them. It's not the easy days that that make our family stronger; it's the difficult ones. My husband and I are so close because we've been through so much together in the eleven years we've been married. We're blessed to even have a child; which makes him all the more precious to us.
What scene in Free To Believe was your favorite to write?
I set a scene at New York Bridal Fashion Week that was absolutely wild to write. I loved going wedding dress shopping;I felt like a princess. Now, I torment my husband and son watching Say Yes to the Dress and I keep threatening to renew our vowels so I can buy a new dress. So for me, being able to "design" wedding dresses in my head and then describing them on the pages for my readers was crazy fun.
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By W. Winters
Inspiration is a funny thing. It comes when you don’t expect it. It evades you when you are convinced you need it. Even more finicky than that, it morphs before your eyes and becomes something you may never have expected.
There’s a specific scene in A Single Kiss where everything changes for my heroine. Like the mechanical dial of a clock, the gears slipped into place and love clicked and ticked its way into her life seamlessly and without any sign of stopping once the pieces started moving. The inspiration from that scene arrived late at night at the bottom of a glass of Cabernet when all I was thinking about was a fight I knew was going to happen.
The fight was bound to take place and it was stuck in my head, not letting me move on until I’d figured out a piece to that puzzle. Instead of fighting, my mind wandered and molded into a different part of the book, the part where she realized she was in love.
I suppose part of the reason the scene I was playing in my head faded to a scene that would have occurred earlier in the timeline is because, in the moment of conflict, some piece of Bethany reminded her that she loved him. It makes sense and maybe it’s why, maybe not. I’ll never know. All I’m certain of is that night I wrote her falling in love… and then wrote the inevitable scene where she questioned if love was enough.
W. Winters is the author of the new book A Single Kiss
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Are you a science fiction reader looking for some new Alien Invasion books? You're in luck because there are so many exciting new releases you'll want to jump in and explore! Check out our list of the latest novels from Dakota Bryant, John Parker, Ken Lozito, Mark Wayne McGinnis, M.R. Forbes, Sawyer Black, and Adrian Tchaikovsky.
Release Date: March 29, 2019
Alastor, a human/alien hybrid has discovered that he is not alone. Abandoned at birth, he was left with no explanation of who he was or what he would have to do... Kakos was once a peaceful Queen of The Seven, but now she has turned dark trying to hide the truth about her son. She wants Alastor's father and his new lover dead.
Release Date: March 22, 2019
Six months ago, Connor discovered what the alien race that populated New Earth feared - a mysterious new enemy that nearly destroyed an entire civilization. Connor must now rejoin the Colonial Delta Force to help the colony prepare for the new threat. Soon he opens a gateway to another universe after using alien technology. There he hopes to learn more about the threat.
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Brian Polk was only out of the Air Force for less than a year when the unthinkable happened. An interstellar invasion and the end of known civilization. First, the large cities and military installations were destroyed. Tens of millions of people were killed. Government and law enforcement were next. Then they eliminated humanity's means of electronic communication.
Release Date: March 11, 2019
Earth is in ruins after the invasion. Now humans are struggling to survive... In a world without law, Hayden is the Sheriff. A good man in a world gone bad. Isaac is a marine in a world without order. His mission was to protect the innocent. Instead, he is the only survivor. Two men with two frightening discoveries.
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Richard Helms is trapped inside a virtual reality in the crashed Astral ship. Meanwhile, the survivors back home are still trying to figure out what happened to their town. Richard must struggle to find a way
Release Date: May 14, 2019
The second book in the bestselling Children of Time series by Adrian Tchaikovsky... Earth's terraforming program took to the stars thousands of years ago. They discovered alien life on a world they called Nod. But it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth. Then humanity's empire fell.
Springtime is here and you know what that means? Sitting in the sun and falling in love with some new romance reads! We've made a list of some of our favorite new releases we'll be reading and hope you'll fall in love with them too. The list includes the latest from Nicole Snow, Tracey Jerald, Annie J. Rose, Lark Avery, W. Winters, and Samantha Keith. Enjoy these hot new romance books for your reading list!
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Warren Ford is my next big mistake. He is the best-kept secret in this small town. He is an alpha’s alpha. He’s moody, broody, mysterious, and totally up in my business. Then he goes and saves a cat for my little niece. I wish I didn’t know his savage kiss or how he erases my tears. There is no way this will work.
Release Date: April 7, 2019
Emily Freeman has to sew together her life after a broken engagement. Then a single phone call changes everything thanks to a new opportunity. Her family can’t help her find the artistic spirit she needs. So, Em goes on a journey to find herself. But she ends up finding much more. Can she conquer her biggest fears to achieve her dreams?
Release Date: April 1, 2019
He was my secret crush and I was just trying to get back at my ex. Pregnant and scared, I ran away. Now it is six years later and Colt is a CEO and I’m desperate for a job. The passion sparks between us again but I can’t tell him my secret. I can’t tell him that our son is sick and needs a transplant. Yet he is the only one that can comfort me. He won’t let me go.
Release Date: January 21, 2019
I don’t need a man. These were my famous last words. I tried my best to turn away the bossy biker who swung into my small town. But he made me an offer I couldn’t refuse… Three days and no strings attached. I may have sworn off men, but it’s pretty hard to say no to him. He’ll be gone on Monday. That is unless he can convince me to make room for him in my heart.
Release Date: April 9, 2019
I should be ashamed for not wanting this to end. But he doesn’t want it to end either. Now reality is starting to come back. The war, drugs, and all the lies for me to get lost in. I don’t want any of that, I just want him. Jace Cross is my enemy but the only person I can trust. I know he will be my downfall.
Release Date: February 19, 2019
FBI agent Nate McIver can’t get Maddie Worth out of his head. If only she wasn’t his best friend and colleague’s sister. After they shared a steamy encounter, that’s the only thing that helped him back away. But now she needs his professional help. When her life is on the line, all bets are off.
What can you tell us about your new release, Gehenna?
DB:
The book came together really well in the end. Especially considering we wrote it while I moved from Oregon to Texas and then from Texas to Ohio. Gehenna came from a small idea that turned into a creative firestorm between the two of us that ultimately led to enough content to keep writing for years.
JP:
It didn’t turn out the way we had originally planned. The creative process tends to take on a life of its own.
What or who inspired you to become an author?
DB:
The idea of Gehenna is what truly made me want to write. I had never really wrote before outside of what was required of me in school. When the idea for Gehenna originally came to me and John pitched in his own ideas it got me excited. I immediately started writing down our ideas on these stickers we had that were used to tag bags in the mill we were working at. That’s when I knew I wanted to be an author.
JP:
There really isn’t one specific thing or individual that inspired me to become a writer. I guess you could say my path and decision was a little unconventional. As I moved through life and interacted with different people in situation I began to realize I had a unique perspective on life. I suppose it was a series of lightbulb moments that brought me to the realization that inspired me to write my thoughts on paper to share with others.
What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?
DB:
Frank Herbert’s Dune series is my favorite, A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr., 1984 by George Orwell, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, and last but not least Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card.
JP:
Black Libraries Horus Heresy series, Frank Herbert's Dune series, Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, William Gibson’s Neuromancer, Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Dragonlance series and several Stephen King novels.
Say you’re the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest? What would you want to ask?
DB:
If I could have anyone I wanted I would want to talk to Frank Herbert. Being able to talk to someone who came up with such an expansive universe and changed the way so many people thought about sci-fi would be the best first guest I could ask for.
JP:
I’m not sure who’d be my first guest. But whoever that person turned out to be I’d ask them ‘Why they chose the genre they did and Who/what inspired them to become a writer.
What's your favorite thing about writing?
DB:
The relaxation of it all. Being able to create a world that you came up with is an awesome feeling, and being able to get lost in the chaos that we deal with mentally to create something others enjoy is my favorite part.
JP:
Exploring the great chaotic abyss of your own imagination. Stretching your own imagination to limits you never thought possible.
What is a typical day like for you?
DB:
Just like most people’s days. I wake up, go to work, come home and hang out with my family, and once they go to bed I either read or write.
JP:
Not very exciting. I wake, eat breakfast, go to work, come home and engage in my favorite coping methods; drinking and writing.
What scene in Gehenna was your favorite to write?
DB:
The scene where we first introduce Trevor. His and Alastor’s relationship is odd to say the least, and it was challenging to make it come off as natural and not forced. I really enjoy the elements of writing that are challenging to convey to an audience.
JP:
The ending.
Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?
DB:
It is what it is. Also, coming in at a close second: Life’s a garden, dig it.
JP:
Never. Give. Up
Dakota Bryant and John Parker are the authors of the new book Gehenna
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