Hello book friends,
I’m writing this to you from my final days in Hawaii, and I’m hoping when I get back to the mainland, fall weather will be awaiting me. I’m ready for the sweaters! The hot beverages! The cozy nights indoors with a scary book! Who’s with me? Let’s go, fall people! Or autumn, if that’s your thing. Anyway, let’s chat books.
Book Deals and Reveals
Eric LaRocca has revealed the cover of their upcoming debut horror novel Everything Darkness Eats. Tor Nightfire has an excerpt of the novel here.
Here’s the cover reveal of Joya Goffney’s My Week with Him, out from Harper Teen in July 2023.
Here’s the cover reveal of Lisa Onomé’s The Melancholy of Summer. Onomé tweeted that her book is “about loneliness, awkwardness, isolation…It’s a fun time, I swear lmao.” Coming summer 2023.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who spent six years in jail in Iran, is writing a memoir with her husband Richard Ratcliffe.
Samantha Allen’s queer, genre-building horror satire Patricia Wants to Cuddle has, in the author’s words, “taken her first steps on the journey to TV.” Allen tweeted, “So thrilled to have Goddard producing, and for yet another @zandoprojects title to get snatched up by Hollywood.”
Speaking of adaptations! Wanda M. Morris announced that her novel All Her Little Secrets is being adapted into a limited drama series on Showtime.
Even more adaptation news: Award-winning French graphic novelist Enki Bilal’s sci-fi Monstre tetralogy is set to be adapted into a premium television series from Trioscope.
Hulu has placed a 10-episode order for Interior Chinatown, a series adaptation based on Charles Yu’s award-winning book of the same name.
Pop star, actor, and director Hayley Kiyoko announced on Instagram that she will be publishing a coming-of-age novel based on her hit song “Girls Like Girls” and the viral video that accompanied it.
The first images from the set of Madame Web have been released, and they show Sydney Sweeney and Dakota Johnson wearing pairs of matching Doc Martens, running around Grand Central Station in New York with co-stars Isabela Merced and Celeste O’Connor.
Harrison Ford is joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe, stepping in as Thaddeus ”Thunderbolt” Ross for 2024’s Captain America: New World Order, starring Anthony Mackie.
Amazon has released the first trailer for its upcoming thriller series, Three Pines, based on the best-selling mystery novel series by Louise Penny.
Jennette McCurdy — former iCarly star and author of best-selling memoir I’m Glad My Mom Died — has signed a seven-figure two-book deal with Ballantine. The deal will see McCurdy diving into fiction with a debut novel.
Honoring the finest works of fiction from around the world, the Booker Prize has announced that its 2022 winner is The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka.
According to Bookshop.org, a “rogue” Ingram warehouse employee was swapping pro-choice book orders with Christian Focus on the Family books.
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!
Can’t Wait for This One!
Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor (Riverhead, January 3, 2023)
Let’s start talking about exciting new thrillers coming out in 2023, shall we? Well, there are plenty to come, but I want to start with one I’m particularly excited about, especially since we can expect it in early January. Age of Vice is a crime thriller/family drama by Indian author Deepti Kapoor. This is her second novel, and it’s going to be a page-turner. In fact, author Marlon James wrote that this novel was “brutal, tender, and heartbreaking” and “one of the best I’ve read.” So let’s get into what this one is about.
It’s 3 a.m. in New Delhi. A speeding Mercedes drives off the side of the road and five are left dead. The car belongs to a rich man who’s nowhere to be found. The only one there to answer for what happened is a shell-shocked servant who has no answers.
What follows is an action-packed story that shifts through time and perspectives in contemporary India. The story follows the corrupt, violent, and power-hungry Wadia family through their lavish estates, extravagant parties, predatory business dealings, and political influence. In the crossfires of the Wadia family’s corrupt web of lies, three lives become dangerously intertwined. There’s Ajay the servant, Sunny the playboy heir, and Neda the curious journalist. As their stories become more connected, will they find their path to escape the world of the Wadias? Or will they ultimately be destroyed by it?
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Words of Literary Wisdom
With Halloween on the horizon, here’s a special scary edition of Words of Literary Wisdom:
“I am a horror maniac who prefers to stay at home.”
— Junji Ito
“The three types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it’s when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it’s when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It’s when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there’s nothing there…”
— Danse Macabre by Stephen King
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for 80 years and might stand for 80 more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”
— The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
And Here’s A Cat Picture!
In my absence, Remy has been chilling with his dad at his work desk during the day. Today, he’s really giving off those autumnal vibes, posing next to a pumpkin candle. See, Remy is ready for that fall weather too. Let’s gooo!
Okay, friends. That is all for today. Next time I talk to you, I hope to be wearing a really thick sweater and maybe some cozy socks. Think fuzzy thoughts for me (and for all of us). Talk soon!
Emily
