Dear Book Friends,
Happy Monday! I hope you had a good weekend. I’m flying back home and I’m sleepy, but on the positive side, I got a lot of reading done on the flight. Oh, here’s a question for you. The woman next to me on the flight asked me about what I was reading. If you saw someone reading on a plane, would you ask them about what they’re reading, or do you have a strict “leave people alone” policy while traveling? Let me know. And now let’s talk books.
💙 Emily
Book Deals and Reveals
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Nerdist has an exclusive reveal of the cover for Grady Hendrix’s highly anticipated book How to Sell A Haunted House.
Honey Boy director Alma Har’el is set to direct her passion project, the feature adaptation of Walter Tevis’ Nebula-nominated science fiction novel Mockingbird.’
Comics legend Alan Moore’s first short story collection Illuminatons is coming out on October 11th from Bloomsbury. You can check out the cover for the new book on Entertainment Weekly‘s website, along with some teases from the author about his favorite parts.
Here’s a preview of Sarah Pinborough’s new novel Insomnia .
Barcelona is honoring Gabriel Garcia Marquez with a new library.
HBO has released a full trailer for the six-episode series The Time Traveler’s Wife, which debuts on May 15th.
Charles D. King’s MACRO has set the Reginald F. Lewis biopic based on his autobiography Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun?
The nonprofit organization We Need Diverse Books Offers (WNDB) has established the Educators Making a Difference Grant program to help combat efforts to ban books across the US.
Here’s how the book industry has turned its own racism into a marketable product, according to Tajja Isen, author of Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service.
Book Riot Recommends
I’m a Contributing Editor at Book Riot, I write the Today in Books newsletter, and I’m a Bibliologist for Book Riot’s Tailored Book Recommendations subscription service. I also have a PhD in English, so I’m basically a doctor of books. Books are my life, in other words, so in this section of the newsletter, let me share with you some upcoming books I’m super excited about. And I think you will be too!
Prepare Your Shelves!
Black Tide by K.C. Jones (Tor Nightfire, May 10th)
Horror is definitely not just for the month of October anymore.Thank goodness. There’s so much stellar horror coming out this year that I’m so excited to share with you. So even though two highly anticipated horror novels from Stephen Graham Jones and Grady Hendrix were pushed back until 2023, fret not, my horror fans. This is still going to be a good year. And if you love character-driven horror, Black Tide is going to be one you’ll want to prepare your shelves for, because it’s coming out next month.
Black Tide is a sci-fi horror novel that’s described as Cujo meets The Quiet Place. After a drunken one-night stand, Mike and Beth awake the next day to discover a shocking astronomical event has caused widespread destruction. Little do they know that this was only the beginning. Stranded on the empty Oregon coast, their emergency calls unanswered and screams echoing all around them, these two strangers must trust in each other in order to survive an apocalyptic nightmare.
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What I’m Reading This Week
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A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger
The Fervor by Alma Katsu
Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard
Monday Memes
Book of the Month posted this and I’m here like… wait I drink iced coffee all year round.
And Here’s A Cat Picture
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Today, we’ve got a picture of Cersei Anne being her shy girl self. I love her so much and I’ve missed her! Can’t wait to kiss this sweet girl face when I get home.
Hug your pets! They are precious angels, all of them!
And have a wonderful, amazing, incredible week. Talk to you Thursday!
💙 Emily