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.

Sharon Stone appeared on The View to discuss her remarkable memoir, THE BEAUTY OF LIVING TWICE. Stone said: “I think once you have a giant trauma in your life – in my case, it was a brain hemorrhage and a stroke, but I think it’s the same for anyone, if it’s cancer, if it’s a heart attack, if it’s even losing your job or going through a big divorce, or just any kind of big crisis – I think when your life changes so dramatically, you have to reassess everything, and that don’t sweat the small stuff is very, very true, and I think you really learn to prioritize your life.” Knopf published the book on March 30, 2021.

2034 by Elliot Ackerman and James Stavridis was mentioned in Thomas Friedman’s NYT Op-Ed “Is There a War Coming Between China and the U.S.?” Friedman writes: “If you’re looking for a compelling beach read this summer, I recommend the novel 2034 by James Stavridis, a retired admiral, and Elliot Ackerman, a former Marine and intelligence officer…What made the book unnerving…was that when I’d put it down and pick up the day’s newspaper I’d read much of what it was predicting for 13 years from now.” Penguin Press published 2034 on March 9, 2021.

THE PARIAH, the first installment in Anthony Ryan’s next epic trilogy, earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly. They write: “Ryan impresses with this fantasy trilogy opener…[He] makes buy-in easy thanks to three-dimensional characters and intelligent prose that grips from the opening sentence…Gritty and well-drawn, this makes a rich treat for George R.R. Martin fans.” Orbit will publish the book on August 24, 2021.

Publishers Weekly interviewed Matt Bell about his upcoming novel, APPLESEED. When asked about how fiction fits into the larger conversation about climate change, Bell said: “Fiction is good at imagining other ways of being—other futures, other possibilities, choices we might make. I was interested in the way that the choices we have to confront climate change narrow as we go forward without doing anything—or not doing enough.” Custom House published the book on July 13, 2021.

Alex McElroy’s debut novel THE ATMOSPHERIANS has received its second starred review. Library Journal calls the book “[a] droll tale of self-examination and self-help run amok, culminating in an unexpected conclusion. Highly recommended.” Atria Books will publish the novel on May 18, 2021.