Author Interview: The Labyrinth of Waking Dreams by Michelle Kulwicki Michelle Kulwicki’s The Labyrinth of Waking Dreams is a portal fantasy set in Appalachian West Virginia, with three teens who are all trapped in different ways before they ever find the Labyrinth, queer love that costs something, and monsters with […]
Review: The Photonic Effect by Mike Chen I have been a Mike Chen fan since his debut and have read everything he has put out since. So when I tell you it genuinely surprised me to realize that The Photonic Effect is his first space opera, I mean that. Everything […]
Young Adult New Releases May 5th 2026 May is here and what a great month and a big release day to kick off with all the summery books and apparently all the thriller books too! If you plan to purchase any ebooks, physical, or audiobooks, we hope you check out […]
Review: How Solo: A Star Wars Story Novelization Made Me Love Solo: A Star Wars Story the Movie The Force is strong with this adaptation…and so is the hair care routine. Most Star Wars fans have their favorite movie, and probably a well-debated order in which they rank them. For […]
Author Interview: Someday Perfect by Kat Schneider There is something quietly devastating about growing up inside a world that has already decided who you are supposed to be. Someday Perfect by Kat Schneider follows Meg, a pastor’s kid navigating two weeks at a strict Christian sleepaway camp where first love […]
Review: A Murder in Zion by Nicole Maggi Nicole Maggi’s A Murder in Zion is the first book in her National Park Mystery series, following Special Agent Emmeline Helliwell of the National Park Service’s Investigative Services Branch as she investigates the murder of a childhood friend in the Narrows of […]
Young Adult New Releases April 28th 2026 One last New Release Tuesday for April… so let’s congratulate today’s Young Adult New Releases. May is literally around the corner which I think is a bigWe hope you check out our indie bookseller affiliates Bookshop or Libro.fm – if you plan to purchase & all sales […]
Cover Crush: Fatally Yours by Jessica Lacy Fatally Yours by Jessica Lacy follows Katie Rose Waters, a rich Texas girl who can literally get away with murder, until her estranged sister comes home with a fiancé and steals all of Mother Dear’s attention, at which point things get genuinely unhinged. […]
Author Interview: The Fight of Our Lives: AIDS in America by David Levithan and Gabriel Duckels Being xennial/elder millennial queers, we grew up on the edges of the AIDS crisis, old enough to feel its shadow but young enough that much of what happened was filtered through adult commentary, news […]
Book Recommendations: Girls Who Don’t Stay Put You know how we all have a type? Well, I have many types but one of mine happens to be women in (historic-ish) academic settings and murder. It is not really about murder, though all three of these books have murder in them. […]