Harlequin for Libraries

Harlequin for Libraries

How are creatives staying inspired this season while doing their part staying at home? L&L thought they’d check in on our fantastic authors to find out! First up in Los Angeles: Sam Lansky, whose much-buzzed-about debut novel BROKEN PEOPLE (June 9, Hanover Square Press) has been called “profound and affecting” by Chloe Benjamin (The Immortalists). The Class By Taryn Toomey: This highly addictive, impossible-to-describe cathartic movement practice is one-part full-body (read more…)

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When sisters Maritza and Maika Moulite think of the holidays and reflect on 2019, they don’t think about their beloved and critically acclaimed YA debut, Dear Haiti, Love Alaine (on sale now, Inkyard Press). No, they have many more accolades than that – whether they’ve become wizards, mermaids, or millionaires, the Moulites have come, seen, and conquered. Here are just some of their favorite things that they’ve fallen in love with (read more…)

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If you’re looking for a new way to scare yourself this Halloween, look no further than Megan Angelo’s Followers [Jan. 14, 2020, Graydon House]. Instead of ghosts and ghouls, Angelo serves up a cocktail of eerily on point speculative fiction, pulse-pounding technological thrills and just a touch of post-apocolyptic mayhem.  Told by our heroines, blindly ambitious Orla in 2015 and existentially discontented Marlow in 2051,  Followers traces their paths through time toward each other, (read more…)

Whether it’s the icy treats, tanning or chasing her kids on the beach, summer is author Noelle Salazar’s favorite season. Another reason why Noelle loves the summer: her debut novel, The Flight Girls (MIRA Books, on sale now), hits the shelves–in trade paperback and limited library hardcover edition! Here are a few other things that make summer in and around Seattle spectacular for her. Sweet Summer Love: I’m not going (read more…)

CHECK OUT HARLEQUIN’S MONUMENTAL AUTHOR LINEUP FRIDAY, JUNE 21 Karine Jean-Pierre, author of Moving Forward @ 6:00 – 6:45 pm  SATURDAY, JUNE 22 Jessica Spotswood, author of Toil & Trouble @ 9:00-9:45 am SUNDAY, JUNE 23 Robin Talley author of Pulp @ 10:30-11:15 am Maika & Maritza Moulite, author of Dear Haiti, Love Alaine @ 1:00-1:45 pm* Jennifer L. Armentrout, author of Storm and Fury @ 1:30-2:15 pm Sheila Roberts, author of Christmas From the Heart @ 2:00-2:45 pm* E.R. Ramzipoor, author (read more…)