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.

Divya Victor has been selected as a recipient of a 2025 Creative Capital Award for her essay project KIN. The applicants, chosen from a pool of 5, 683 applications, will be provided up to $50,000 each in unrestricted funding to complete their work.

Advance praise for THE BOMBSHELL by Darrow Farr includes blurbs from Chang-Rae Lee, who calls it “sexy, kinetic and dazzling” and “an amazing, unforgettable novel”; Adam Johnson, who praises it as “lush, cinematic and propulsive[…]filled with sex, violence, glamor and a true revolutionary spirit. It’s a towering literary achievement. THE BOMBSHELL is certain to be the debut of the year, a true must-read”; Gabriela Garcia, who hails it as “[A]n electrifying exploration of personal and political revolution… [A] complex, unflinching portrait of youthful transformation and the dangerous allure of fame that announces Darrow Farr as an exciting new voice to watch”; and Emma Knight, who declares: “THE BOMBSHELL will explode into your psyche and keep you happily captive until the last word. Farr’s complicated heroine, by turns overconfident and touchingly vulnerable, will force you to constantly reassess your convictions. I didn’t want this fascinating, nuanced, beautifully drawn novel to end.” Publishers Lunch also selected the novel as one of its “Buzz Books 2025: Spring/Winter” list picks. THE BOMBSHELL will be published by Pamela Dorman Books on May 27, 2025.

SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS by Kailee Pedersen has been selected as a 2025 Libby Book Awards finalist in the Best Horror category. The winners will be announced on March 5. SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS was published by St. Martin’s Press on August 20, 2024.

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