Are you searching for some new books to read in literary fiction? This week’s new releases list is full of enthralling new reads you won’t want to miss! The list this week includes bestselling authors Brian Hebbel, A.G. Russo, Jamie Brenner, and many more! Enjoy your new literary fiction books and happy reading!
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Are you ready to embark on thrilling adventures to new worlds? This week’s selection of new science fiction and fantasy books will surely please! Fantasy fans won't want to miss Ice-Cold Death by Alexes Razevich. There are also new novels from Jenna Moreci, DK Holmberg and more. Science fiction fans can also can pick up Alien: The Cold Forge by Alex White as well as Area 51 Redemption by Bob Mayer. Enjoy your new science fiction and fantasy books. Happy reading!
Are you a fan of exciting young adult fiction? This week you are in luck! With all of these new novels, you’re bound to find a new favorite read for your library. Get your hands on the latest from bestselling authors Becky Albertalli, Adrienne Young, Laura Sebastian, Anna Day, and more! Enjoy these brand new young adult novels and happy reading!
On the lookout for some new biography and memoir books to add to your library? This week you have some exciting new novels to dive into from Candace Cameron Bure, Kirk Wallace Johnson, Gilbert King, and more! Enjoy your new biography and memoir books and happy reading!
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What can you tell us about your new release, Ice-Cold Death?
It’s the story of Oona Goodlight who shows up for a hockey practice one morning only to discover the dead body of someone she slightly knows on the ice. An empathic psychic, she sees the murder in a vision and later is asked by a wizard investigator to use her abilities to help find the killer.
This book was great fun to write. Three of my favorite things are magic, murder mysteries, and hockey. With Ice-Cold Death I got to mash up all three together.
I also wanted to explore how people with magical gifts might navigate their world. Oona is psychic and an empath. Her gifts have made living a normal life nearly impossible. The wizard investigator has his own issues to deal with. How they work out ways to live in both the magical and ordinary worlds was a challenge and a joy.
What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?
That’s a hard question. Different books move us in different ways. For sheer story-telling craft, three I really like and have read multiple times are Mystic River by Dennis Lehane, The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, and The Road by Cormac McCarty. I’m a big fan of C.J. Cherryh’s Morgaine Cycle, Helene Wecker’s The Golem and the Jinni, and almost anything by Ursula Le Guin. Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys is another favorite.
What fictional literary world would you most like to visit?
Hogwarts. It would be endlessly interesting.
Say you're the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest? What would you want to ask?
William Shakespeare. The first question would be: Who really wrote all that stuff—you or someone, or maybe several someones, else?
What's your favorite thing about writing?
I love to travel, to immerse myself in various cultures, seeing and experiencing ways of life that are different from my own. Writing lets me do that without leaving home. I love experiencing all those different people living their unique lives in their own places.
Plus, it’s just fun.
What is a typical day like for you?
Most days I get up early and write for three or four hours, six days a week. We have a new dog. He’s half Pit Bull, half Siberian husky, and all energy. I usually take him to the dog park or a long walk for an hour or two every day. I listen to an audio book during his walk/play times. I just finished Anne Bishop’s Written in Red and am working my way through The Dresden Files. Then I come home to write some more and take care of the business side of being an author. I play hockey Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays.
What scene in Ice-Cold Death was your favorite to write?
Probably the early ‘getting to know you’ scenes between my main character, Oona Goodlight, and the wizard who drags her into the murder investigation. She’s an empathic psychic so she often knows what he’s feeling and thinking—and calls him on it.
The scene at the tattoo parlor was great fun to write. Neither The Gate nor Gil were planned characters. They just showed up. The Gate, being who he is, took over and dominated his scene. Then he demanded to be in the next two books as well. Pushy little beggar.
Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?
Treat everyone with respect and do no harm.
Alexes Razevich is the author of the new book Ice-Cold Death
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What can you tell us about your new release, Lyrical Lights?
Lyrical Lights is an inspirational, friend to lovers romance about a girl who comes to New York hoping to become a model. When she's dropped by her agent for not being skinny, she has to figure out her next move but when her world collides with a witty fashion photographer does her career takes on a different path.
What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?
You before me,
The Bronze Horseman,
Memoirs of a Geisha,
All the Ugly and beautiful Things,
Sweetbitter
Who is your favorite couple from literature?
Gabriel Oaks and Bathsheba Everdene from Far from the Madding Crowd.
What's your favorite thing about writing?
I love the escape that writing brings and creating people that are nothing like me. It gives me a great pleasure when readers tell me how real my characters feel.
What is a typical day like for you?
I start my writing after my kids go off to school at my desk early in the morning but then I drift into the kitchen with my laptop. Mostly, I write in between cooking meals or doing homework with my kids. I try to write every small minute I have.
If you had an extra hour each day, how would you spend it?
If I had an extra hour in a day, I would spend it with my kids but my mind would plot the next book.
What scene in Lyrical Lights was your favorite to write?
I love the scene where Simon challenges Mable to a game of pool, I enjoy writing the playfulness between them.
Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?
I go by the words of Sophia Amoruso; "The energy you’ll spend focusing on someone else’s life is better spent working on your own. Just be your own idol.” and “There are secret opportunities hidden inside every failure.”
Maria La Serra is the author of the new book Lyrical Lights
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By Christopher Greyson
Most of the ideas for my stories begin with the question ‘What if?’, and the same was true for Jack Frost. What if Jack was trapped on a mountain with a killer? Just thinking about the events that would possibly unfold was very exciting. But the thing I love about Jack is the second question I ask: What if things get worse? That’s where I start ramping up the tension.
So, not only is Jack trapped on a mountain with a killer, but he’s cut off from the outside world by a blizzard. And it’s not just himself he’s worried about; he’s trying to protect a group of people. Then one of them gets hurt and needs medical assistance and… the pressure (forgive the intended pun) snowballs.
That’s how the story of Jack Frost unfolds. Jack goes up a mountain, and then it’s a downhill thrill ride of twists and turns until the big bang of the ending. The greatest part of the process is that I get to watch it unfold in my mind, and all I have to do is write down what I see.
Christopher Greyson is the author of the new book Jack Frost
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Jeff Wheeler is the Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of The Kingfountain Series and Legends of Muirwood fantasy novels. If your fantasy library is in need of some new novels, we definitely think you will enjoy these books to read if you like Jeff Wheeler!
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The fiercest knights in the realm are coming together to compete in the joust for Anwin's Lance. It is a tournament that will divide even the closest alliances. The winner alone will have the power to prevent a war across the lands of Pentavia. House Hornbolt is hosting the tournament. They have always been strict followers of tradition. The firstborn son is a knight, the second takes the priestly Oath of Arwin and the daughters get married to eligible suitors. But sometimes customs are meant to be broken.
Release Date: February 20, 2018
In the year 1962, a disreputable young man by the name of Kyle Edwards breaks off his engagement with Lilly Parris and accuses his fiancee of witchcraft. The thing is, Kyle is a liar. He doesn't believe in witchcraft and is just trying to get rid of Lilly. It turns out Kyle is in for a shock, as Lilly really is a witch...
Release Date: April 21, 2018
Book one in the new Oona Goodlight series by Alexes Razevich. When Oona Goodlight finds a dead body on the ice at hockey practice, the secret psychic and empath is shocked. Not just by the brutal death but because she witnessed the murder and killer in a vision. When a wizard investigator asks for her to use her abilities to catch the murderer, she is pulled into a battle she never wanted to fight.
Release Date: April 10, 2018
The realm is on the brink of war. The blades were once celebrated but have now become an easy target for the anger of devastated citizens. Nightblade warrior Asa's quest for vengeance is now over, but instead, she finds herself running from the people she sought to protect.
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Up-and-coming thief, Myrth has lost her only true friend. Her mentor was finally captured by the city guards. This aging rogue was the closest thing she had to a family...but he is now dead and she will be next if she doesn't figure out who it was that betrayed him. As her search begins, Myrth is double-crossed by a fellow freelancer and sold to a new crime syndicate.
Release Date: April 3, 2018
The ninth and final book in The Iron Druid Chronicles. The Norse gods Loki and Hel are ready to unleash Ragnorok upon the earth. Now a globe-spanning battle is brewing that Druid Atticus O'Sullivan will find hard to survive... let alone win.
Layla Hagen is the USA Today Bestselling Author of The Bennett Family contemporary romance series. If you are a fan of her sexy writing style and are looking for something new, we think you will adore these latest love stories!
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Lily has always lived up to her preacher father's expectations. That was until a hot stranger walks into her hair salon and her desire takes control. On a whim, she sleeps with him in the supply room. Soon she learns he's the billionaire alpha that wants her out of her business. Can she refuse his naughty proposal?
Release Date: April 2, 2018
I never wanted the throne. When I left behind my gilded cage of a palace, I thought it would be simple. I just had to find my long-lost brother and make him the prince. That way I won't have to rule the kingdom like my father expects. That was until I met my neighbor and quickly realized she was the queen of my heart. But I can't reveal who I really am.
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Fiona Adams has a little problem. A man problem... She has way too many in her life. Owen is the sweet guy she dated in college. Owen is the hot hunk currently starring in her fantasies. Both of them are her coworkers in the writing team for the sitcom Wild Winters. She resigned herself to having neither man... that was until the team decides to film in her family's bar and both Owen and Asher take matters into their own hands.
Release Date: April 12, 2018
She's so sweet and innocent... and completely off-limits. Maggie doesn't belong in my world, this seedy underbelly of the city. But there she is. The angel with her wide eyes and nerdy glasses. Now she needs help and I'm the only one who can protect her. I know I don't deserve her but I can't help myself.
Release Date: April 14, 2018
I couldn't have asked for a more perfect night. For one evening, at a masquerade party in the heart of Manhattan, I don't have to be the millionaire everyone wants a piece of. There are no names or business cards here and that's why I'm eager to get to know the most intriguing woman I've ever met. She seems to like me for me, rather than for my huge... bank account.
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Book one in the new Montgomery Ink spin-off series, Colorado Springs... Adrienna Montgomery is finally living her dream. She opened her tattoo shop and is ready to take the city by storm with her art. When the neighbors don't want her shop in the community, she'll have to lean on the one person she didn't expect to fall for along the way.
What can you tell us about your new release, Cheeky Royal?
Cheeky Royal is book 1 in the Royals Undercover duet. It's a funny heartwarmingly hilarious take on a royal romance. I love it so much because I got to make the girl the royal guard in charge of protecting the oh so cocky prince. And I also got to dig in to my romantic comedy roots. So if you love a cocky prince, a sassy royal guard and laugh out loud romantic comedy adventures, you'll enjoy this hilarious friends to royal lovers romance!
Who is your favorite couple from literature?
Elizabeth and Darcy of course!
What or who inspired you to become an author?
Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary. Until that book I hadn't seen anyone writing with my kind of voice. I loved every word and it inspired me to write my first book.
What's your favorite thing about writing?
Getting to watch the characters fall in love. I'm on the same wild ride as the readers are half the time. Lol.
How do you like to spend a rainy day?
This is an easy one. Cuddled up with the kidlet as we both read.
What scene in Cheeky Royal was your favorite to write?
Oh my gosh, so many. But maybe my most favorite was the scene where Penny is getting a photography lesson from Sebastian. She lets it slip that she no longer has a boyfriend and the one obvious obstacle to them being together is gone. Things get pretty steamy pretty quickly. The tension is awesome in that scene. Of course, in this scene neither one of them knows who the other really is so that makes for some problems later, lol.
Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?
Anything can be done given enough time and resources. I don't believe in not being able to do something. I work hard to scrub the word can't from my vocabulary.
Nana Malone is the author of the new book Cheeky Royal.
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