News in May 2021
News in May 2021
Margaret Kimball's AND NOW I SPILL THE FAMILY SECRETS is Belletrist's book club pick for May 2021, praised as “funny, poignant, and deeply inspiring in its portrayal of what drives a family apart and what keeps them together.” This is the first time Belletrist, founded by actress Emma Roberts and her best friend Kara Preiss, has selected a graphic memoir. The book will be promoted through their weekly e-newsletter and various social media platforms. HarperOne published the book on April 20, 2021.
An excerpt from Vince Granata's memoir EVERYTHING IS FINE was featured in Rolling Stone, recounting the author's first visit to his brother after their mother's death. Atria Books published the memoir on April 27, 2021.
Joss Lake's FUTURE FEELING has been named an Indie Next pick for June 2021. Bookseller Nikki Siclare of Newtonville Books in Newton Centre, MA says: "I loved this novel about trans queer belonging, found families, and our need to be connected and understood no matter how advanced we become. Also — succulents and witchcraft!” The book was also named one of Bustle's "Best Debut Books of Spring & Summer 2021," and both BuzzFeed and LGBTQ Reads highlighted it as a title to celebrate on the Trans Day of Visibility. Soft Skull will publish the book on June 1, 2021.
THE BUCKET LIST author Georgia Clark’s next rom-com, IT HAD TO BE YOU, published this week to a flurry of wonderful press. Clark published original pieces in Frolic and Brides in the lead-up to publication, and sat down for Q&As with Australian Women in New York and Jean Book Nerd, who also featured a giveaway of the novel. Brooklyn Magazine published an excerpt of the NYC-set rom-com, and the novel was named a best book by Overdrive, NewNowNext, LiveSavvy, and PopSugar. Emily Bestler Books published IT HAD TO BE YOU on May 4, 2021.
Jonathan Parks-Ramage’s YES, DADDY was featured on Bustle’s “51 Debut Books To Look Forward To This Spring & Summer.” They rave that "Parks-Ramage’s debut novel is a queer gothic thriller you can’t afford to miss." Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will publish the novel on May 18, 2021.
RED DRESS IN BLACK AND WHITE by Elliot Ackerman was featured in The New York Times' Paperback Row. They write: "In this 'superbly written,' 'entirely absorbing' novel set amid the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul, the unstable marriage of a debt-ridden Turkish real estate developer and an American art patron mirrors 'a whole country’s instability,' our reviewer, Joan Silber, observed, as well as the 'web of interests and counterinterests' in which the country is embroiled." Knopf published the hardcover edition on May 26, 2020, and the paperback edition on April 27, 2021.