Harlequin TEEN authors are catching eyes and crossing over in the world of adult horror: “On the YA side, Hillary Monahan [aka Eva Darrows, author of Harlequin TEEN’s Dead Little Mean Girl] and Amy Lukavics [Daughters Unto Devils, The Ravenous] are making this the Golden Age of horror,” said Paul Tremblay, the author of the terrifying Head Full of Ghosts and creepy Cabin at the End of the World, in his LA Times (read more…)
Mary Kubica’s newest psychological thriller, When the Lights Go Out [September 2018, Park Row Books] has been selected by public library staff across the nation as the #9 pick for the September LibraryReads list! LibraryReads is a list of the top ten books published this month that librarians across the United States love. In Kubica’s fifth nail-biting read, meet Jessie, whose is insomnia-plagued life complicated enough before she is plunged into a bizarre case of stolen identity (read more…)
Summer is full of delightful things to do: climbing trees, napping on the beach, and (most importantly) checking out upcoming Harlequin reads! Below are some of the hot titles garnering library buzz on GalleyChat*: Beautiful Bad: for the dark and twisted librarian (Park Row Books; March 26) Secret Language of Cats: for the cat-lady librarian (Hanover Square Press; Nov. 6) When The Lights Go Out: for the sleepless librarian (read more…)
In Jennifer Yu’s novel Four Weeks, Five People [Harlequin TEEN], we met five high schoolers reluctantly brought together–and reluctantly bonding–at a summer camp for troubled kids. There, we got to know four of the teens, their backgrounds, and what led them to spend a summer with complete strangers. But there was one character we only got glimpses of: a mysteriously hardened veteran camper named Stella. Imagine Us Happy [Oct. 2018] is (read more…)
Editor and author Saundra Mitchell brought together an all-star cast of YA’s best LGBTQ+ authors for one magnificent historical fiction anthology, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages [HarlequinTeen]. Authors including Robin Talley, Tess Sharpe, Alex Sanchez, and Elliot Wake contributed short stories about queer teens that span across six centuries and focus on self-discovery, first love, and adventure! “Readers searching for positive, nuanced, and authentic queer representation—or just a (read more…)
