AN IMAGE OF MY NAME ENTERS AMERICA is a finalist for the 2024 Vermont Book Awards in the Creative Nonfiction category. The winners will be revealed at the Vermont Book Awards celebration on Saturday, May 3rd in Montpelier featuring a keynote from Bill McKibben. AN IMAGE OF MY NAME ENTERS AMERICA was published by Graywolf Press on October 15, 2024.

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Danielle Steel’s latest novel, FAR FROM HOME, debuted on The New York Times Bestsellers list for the week of March 23, 2025, appearing at #4 on the Hardcover Fiction list and #5 on the Combined Print & E-Book Fiction list. Delacorte Press published the book on March 4, 2025.

BLOOD IN THE CUT by Alejandro Nodarse is a 2025 International Thriller Writers Awards finalist in the Best First Novel category. ITW will announce the winners at ThrillerFest XX on Saturday, June 21, 2025 at the New York Hilton Midtown, New York City. Flatiron published the novel on June 4, 2024.

SEE FRIENDSHIP by Jeremy Gordon received praise from The New York Times Book Review: “Gordon’s smart novel on the warping effects of nostalgia and technology asks us to follow some Forsterian advice from a century ago: Only connect.” Upon its release, the debut novel was featured on Book Riot’s “New Releases and More for March 4, 2025,” Literary Hub’s “Laila Lalami! Alanis Morissette! 24 new books out today,” Town & Country’s “The 49 Must-Read Books of Spring 2025,” and Chicago Review of Books’ “12 Must-Read Books of March 2025.” Furthermore, Jeremy Gordon discussed “Grief, Connection, And His Novel ‘SEE FRIENDSHIP’” with Defector Media and “Media Jobs, Male Loneliness, and Modern Malaise” with Interview Magazine. SEE FRIENDSHIP was published on March 4, 2025 by Harper Perennial.

PERFECT VICTIMS by Mohammed El-Kurd debuted on The New York Times Bestsellers list for the week of March 2, 2025, appearing at #9 on the Paperback Nonfiction list. Haymarket Books published PERFECT VICTIMS on February 11, 2025.

GOD BLESS YOU OTIS SPUNKMEYER is a finalist for the 2024 LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Winners will be announced in a ceremony on Friday, April 25 at USC’s Bovard Auditorium. Grand Central Publishing published the book on June 18, 2024.

The Baltimore Science Fiction Society has named Emily Hamilton’s THE STARS TOO FONDLY as one of five finalists for the 2025 Compton Crook Award, honoring the best debut SF/fantasy/horror novel of the year. The winner will receive a cash prize and an invitation to be the Compton Crook Guest at the society’s annual event, Balticon. Members of the BSFS will vote on a winner to be announced in early April. Harper Voyager published the book on June 11, 2024.

Publishers Weekly highlights WAYS AND MEANS by Daniel Lefferts as one of their “7 Books from 2024 You Shouldn’t Overlook.” Literary Fiction Reviews Editor David Varno writes: “It’s not unusual for a debut novel to be long and full of ideas, but it’s rare to come across one as fully formed and intensely readable as Lefferts’s…I love this one, and so does everyone I’ve made read it.” WAYS AND MEANS was published by Abrams on February 6, 2024.

Kathy MacLeod's debut graphic memoir CONTINENTAL DRIFTER is the winner of the 2025 APALA Award for Literature in Children's Fiction. Administered by the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA), an affiliate of the American Library Association, the award celebrates artistic and literary merit in works that promote Asian/Pacific American culture and heritage. CONTINENTAL DRIFTER was published by First Second on April 4, 2024.