Feature: Of Sorcery and Science by Mike Chen One thing we love learning about is how authors come to write in the genre(s) they land in. Mike Chen’s niche, which he found after two rejected novels and fifteen years of balancing tech writing with a dream of being a novelist, […]
Young Adult New Releases September 8th 2026 We have a nice varied YA release day today! Check out some amazing seasoned authors and some debuts! Something for everyone today! If anything has caught your eye, and a purchase was needed we work with independent affiliates to bring you anti-billionaire corporate […]
Blog Tour & Feature: Espiritu by Aiden Thomas When Cemetery Boys came out in September 2020, Kelly bought eight copies. Two still live in her library. The other six she pressed into people’s hands because that is what you do with a book that has your whole heart. She called […]
Comic Crush Saturday: One Accidental Assassin, Three Truant Boys, and an X-Men Girlie Coping Welcome to Comic Crush Saturday, our feature focused on the graphic elements of the book world. Comics became a huge part of my life a few years ago when I started reviewing them (and comic related […]
Author Interview: The Secret to Belonging by Megan E. Freeman Written entirely in second person, set partly in 1980s California and partly in northern Norway, The Secret to Belonging follows a narrator with no name through a family shaped by her brother’s addiction and a year abroad that changes everything. The Secret […]
Young Adult New Releases September 1st 2026 Welcome to September and welcome a whole bunch of YA new releases today! We are sharing most of them below! If any catch your interest and you plan to own one of these absolutely stunning books we would love if you ordered from […]
Cover Crush: A Dangerous Bargain by Erin Cotter The cover of A Dangerous Bargain by Erin Cotter looks like a Renaissance portrait pulled straight out of a gilded frame. A young man in a ruffled collar and dark velvet doublet stares directly at us as the viewer, holding a quill, […]
Books on Our Radar: Adam, Mine. by K. Ancrum Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein at eighteen, surrounded by queer writers and thinkers, and her own letters after Percy’s death suggest romantic attachments to women that scholars have been debating ever since. Bram Stoker wrote Dracula with a queerness so clear that […]
Young Adult New Releases August 25th 2026 Summerween is not done with us yet! Check out most of the YA books releasing today below! We work with independent affiliates to bring you anti-billionaire corporate alternatives. Libro.fm for all your audiobooks and Bookshop.org for all your digital or physical editions and the great thing is […]
Book Recs: The Season of Light and Darkness by Jillian Cantor & a New Generation of Dystopian Earlier this year, we wrote about how a generation of YA dystopian fiction spent a decade warning us and we filed it under entertainment while the conditions those books described quietly took root. […]