Category: TestRiotRundown

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Park Row Books and EVERGREEN TIDINGS FROM THE BAUMGARTNERS by Gretchen Anthony.

A formidable matriarch goes to wild efforts to wrest back control of her family in this sidesplitting dramedy set in the Midwest—perfect for fans of This is Where I Leave You and The People We Hate at the Wedding.
Delightful, surprising, and full of heart, Gretchen Anthony’s Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners brings to life a sparkling cast of characters whose struggle to understand one another illuminates the unbreakable bonds of family, no matter how dysfunctional they can get.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Penguin Teen

In the sequel to the acclaimed Beasts Made of Night, Taj has escaped Kos, but Queen Karima will go to any means necessary–including using the deadliest magic–to track him down. Taj is headed west, but the consequences of leaving Kos behind confront him at every turn. As Taj and Aliya explore their feelings for each other and Arzu connects with her homeland, the local westerners begin to question Taj’s true identity. Karima is on his heels, sending dark warnings to the little village where he’s hiding. Taj will have to go back and face her before she sends her most deadly weapon–Taj’s former best friend, Bo.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Like Never and Always by Ann Aguirre.

One summer night, Liv, Morgan, Clay, and Nathan are driving home from a party. Best friends dating brothers? It doesn’t get better than that. But the joyride ends in disaster.
Liv wakes in the hospital. At first she’s confused when they call her Morgan, but she assumes it’s a case of mistaken identity. Yet when the bandages come off, it’s not her face in the mirror. It’s Morgan’s.
Forced to confront the disturbing truths that Morgan kept hidden in life, Liv must navigate a world of long-buried murder, a dangerous love affair—and a romance that feels like a betrayal.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Lost Soul Be at Peace by Maggie Thrash

A year and a half after the summer that changed her life, Maggie Thrash wishes she could change it all back. She’s trapped in a dark depression and flunking eleventh grade, befuddling her patrician mother while going unnoticed by her father, a workaholic federal judge. The only thing Maggie cares about is her cat, Tommi . . . who then disappears somewhere in the walls of her cavernous house. So her search begins — but Maggie’s not even really sure what she’s lost, and she has no idea what she’ll find. Lost Soul, Be at Peace is the continuation of Maggie’s story from her critically acclaimed memoir Honor Girl, one that brings her devastating honesty and humor to the before and after of depression.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Fierce Reads

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Kill the Queen by Jennifer Estep

Dark forces are at work inside the Bellona royal court. When the crown princess assassinates her mother to take the throne by force, even seventeenth-in-line-for-the-throne Lady Everleigh is in danger.

Forced into hiding to survive, she falls in with a gladiator troupe. Though they use their talents to entertain, the gladiators are highly trained warriors. Uncertain of her future Evie begins training with the troupe. But as the bloodthirsty queen exerts her power, Evie’s fate becomes clear: she must become a gladiator . . . and kill the queen

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Inkshares, the publishing and rights management platform behind books like Scott Thomas’ Kill Creek and Christopher Huang’s A Gentleman’s Murder.

Join fellow novelists in submitting your partial or finished manuscripts to Inkshares’ Mystery-Thriller and Horror contests, running through November 21st and December 15th, respectively. At least three novels per contest will be chosen for publication and representation.

Inkshares books have garnered starred reviews in every publishing magazine, features in major publications including USA Today, The Washington Post, and The New York Times, awards from organizations including the American Library Association, and have reached the global top-five most-sold books. Inkshares’ novels have been licensed in foreign territories alongside top-of-market advances and are in development for television and film at top networks and studios.

Is your novel next?

Check out the Inkshares Horror Contest Video Trailer here.

Check out the Inkshares Mystery-Thriller Contest Video Trailer here.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by The Hero’s Brother by M. Scott Anderson from The Parchment Farm

It’s hard enough being barely above average, when your brothers include the deadliest swordsman of the realm, a saint, prodigies – and the greatest hero of the Middle Ages. But what if you haven’t seen your Queen of Love in years, and she’s imprisoned by lethal librarians and a one-armed religious zealot? Even worse, your only allies turn out to be vicious killers, with terrible table manners. Who all want to murder your heroic brother.

The result – in a world of pedantic misrule, feckless magic, and courage both dauntless and daunted – is either High Adventure or an Identity Crisis. Or both.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Flatiron Books, publishers of Unstoppable Moses by Tyler James Smith.

Perfect for John Green fans, 17-year-old Moses has one week in the aftermath of a disastrous prank to prove to the authorities, and to himself, that he’s not a worthless jerk who belongs in jail.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by The Rule of One, the first read in an epic series by real-life sisters Ashley Saunders and Leslie Saunders.

To survive, twin sisters must live the perfect lie. In a dystopian United States, a one-child policy called The Rule of One is ruthlessly enforced. But Ava has a secret—she has an identical twin sister, Mira. For 18 years Ava and Mira have lived as one person, down to the most telling detail. But when their charade is exposed, their worst nightmare begins. Branded as traitors, Ava and Mira rush headlong into a terrifying unknown. How far will they go to stay alive? An epic series from real-life sisters Ashley Saunders and Leslie Saunders begins with The Rule of One.