“This metafictional episode matches a funny yarn-spinner with a rain of big letters that drop into sight…a simple story emerges—one that will draw the wayward audience members back and leave them eager for more. Young would-be-writers who are likewise stuck will come away with fresh resolve.” (Booklist)
In the first book of the Shaw Confessions, the companion series to the New York Times bestselling Mara Dyer novels, old skeletons are laid bare and new promises prove deadly. This is what happens after happily ever after.
“[An] impressive first novel, set in pre-WWII Hollywood….Gates skillfully evokes a Hollywood era when the studio chiefs wielded enormous power over the lives of everyone in their orbits and would go to any length to protect their stars and big-budget movies. Glamour takes a back seat to lust, lies, and greed in this well-wrought mystery.”—Publishers Weekly
“The World of Stories is in danger, and it’s up to the offspring of famous fairy-tale characters and monsters to team up to save the day. Fairy-tale characters don’t believe in monsters, and monsters don’t believe in fairy tales.” –– Kirkus Reviews
Book #3 in The Enchanted Files series by Bruce Coville is now available! Find all the books in this lovely middle grade series wherever books are sold.
Happy pub day to NEIGHBORHOOD GIRLS, the sophomore novel of 2016 Printz-Honor Award-winning author Jessie Ann Foley.
Happy pub day to THE INFAMOUS RATSOS ARE NOT AFRAID, book #2 in the Geisel Award-winning INFAMOUS RATSOS series by Kara LaReau.
Happy pub day to The Princess in Black and the Mysterious Playdate, the 5th book in the NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING PRINCESS IN BLACK SERIES.
Happy pub day to MAX AND BIRD, now available in the US.
Happy Pub day to Dan Poblocki! NO WAY OUT is the third book in the SHADOW HOUSE series.
“Shadow House has everything I love–strange characters, magic and the supernatural, endless danger and adventure–and a mystery I dare any reader to try to solve.” — R. L. Stine, author of Goosebumps, on Shadow House Book #1
Congrats to Emma Newman on her big Hugo win for her podcast TEA AND JEOPARDY! Find out more about all the Hugo winners here.
TEA AND JEOPARDY is a podcast featuring tea, cake, geekery, and mild peril co-hosted with her husband Peter. You can find this podcast on itunes, Emma’s website here, or wherever you listen to your podcasts.
From National Book Award–winning author William Alexander comes a wryly humorous story about two kids who try to save their town by bringing back its ghosts.
“A Properly Unhaunted Place has everything a reader could want — mystery, adventure humor, creepy ghosts, plus two brave and wonderful kid heroes at its heart. William Alexander is a master storyteller.” — Anne Ursu, author of The Real Boy
From Award-winning podcaster Mur Lafferty comes a how-to book full of helpful advice and encouragement for the person who wants to finally write the story they’ve always dreamed of creating.
