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HEATED RIVALRY and UNRIVALED by Rachel Reid were featured widely, with coverage that included an interview in Brazil’s O Globo about the worldwide response to the series, a conversation on NBC’s Today show podcast about the future of Shane and Ilya, and a follow-up for TODAY.com addressing viral reader theories.

The series, Indigo’s choice for its Author of the Month promotion, was also the subject of a Sports Illustrated feature on LGBTQ+ fandom and men’s hockey culture, as well as a Vulture Book Gossip interview with TKA’s own Deidre Knight.

WE BURNED SO BRIGHT by TJ Klune received a starred review from Library Journal, which wrote, “Klune’s heart-wrenching plot and emotional prose are on full display in this wonderful queer apocalyptic story.”

SHOOT YOUR SHOT by author Lexi LaFleur Brown appeared in a  Rolling Stone piece on LGBTQ+ inclusion in the National Hockey League, as well as an interview with Tara Slone for No Filter on SiriusXM Canada Talks.

STAR SHIPPED by Cat Sebastian received a starred review in Booklist’s February 2026 issue, where John Charles praised Sebastian’s contemporary debut for its “snappy wit and smoldering sensuality” and called Simon and Charlie’s love story “exceptional in every way.”

DIDN'T YOU USE TO BE QUEENIE B? by Terri-Lynne DeFino won the Relationship Fiction honor in the RUSA Update 2026 Reading List Awards announcement.

THE STONE SKY by N.K. Jemisin was included in ComicBook.com’s “There Can Be No Debate That These 10 Fantasy Books Are All 10/10 Masterpieces” list, which highlighted the book’s culminating impact and celebrated the wider BROKEN EARTH TRILOGY as a 10/10 fantasy landmark.

DUNGEONS AND DRAMA by Kristy Boyce was nominated for the South Carolina Association of School Librarians Young Adult Book Award, a student-voted statewide honor that provided South Carolina teens with vetted, diverse reading choices and let students decide the winner by ballot.

IF I TOLD YOU, I’D HAVE TO KISS YOU by Mae Marvel was included on New York Public Library’s Best New Romance Books of 2026 list.

AUTHOR TIP OF THE MONTH

Katie Siegel is a former wannabe kid detective who eventually realized that writing mysteries was more fun than trying (and failing) to solve them. When she's not writing books, she’s either reading, listening to comedy podcasts, or playing TTRPGs with her friends. OUT OF THE LOOP is her latest novel.

 
OUT OF THE LOOP - Katie Siegel

Try to pay attention to repetition in your writing! When I feel like I’m using a word or phrase too much, I make a note of it. Once I finish the first draft of a manuscript, I go through my repetitive word list, search the document for each word, and work on cutting them down by replacing or removing them. I'll often check my repetitive word lists from previous books as well (my worst repeat offenders across projects are “before” “turn/turned/turning” and “seemed/seeming/seemingly”).


I don’t think readers will always notice repetition (depends on how repetitive you get), but I do think readers at least subconsciously appreciate when a book has a wider variety of words. It's an easy way to improve the quality of your writing!

RECENT DEALS

Amanda Williams's TEA & TIME LOOPS, a queer cozy fantasy pitched as LEGENDS & LATTES meets THE VERY SECRET SOCIETY OF IRREGULAR WITCHES by way of TJ Klune, set in a sleepy town where the resident town screwup and tea shop owner must travel back in time via a special brew to prove their innocence after someone is poisoned in their shop, to Ruoxi Chen and Molly Donovan at Putnam in a good two-book deal at auction, by Deidre Knight and Tyler Knight

Jenny Linsky's YOU'VE GOT KUDOS, a m/m romance pitched in the vein of HEATED RIVALRY and SPOILER ALERT, in which an NHL player discovers gay fan fiction about himself and soon realizes he's in love with his captain and best friend, to Lizzie Poteet at Bantam Dell in a good two-book deal at auction, by Deidre Knight

JP Rindfleisch IX's THE ALCHEMIST BAKER OF ROSEN, a cozy queer fantasy following a refugee baker whose forbidden magic keeps his struggling harbor district fed until the arrival of a royal inspector who threatens to expose him, to Chantelle Aimee Osman at Simon Maverick in a nice deal on exclusive submission, by Elaine Spencer

Kassandra Tyst's ELSIE LOVELACE'S GALLERY OF ENCHANTMENTS, featuring a gallery of living paintings, an enigmatic aristocrat who spent the last century stuck in a portrait, and the docent, who never thought she had the ability to free him—or that this very ability might be as dangerous to her person as he is to her heart, to Kirsiah Depp at Grand Central, by Lucienne Diver

Kaylee Archer's FATE BOUND, following a bound mage of fearsome power who clashes with a thief whose newly awakened abilities pose a danger to all—as passions ignite, together, they may just burn the world down, to Katie Holt at Griffin, by Lucienne Diver

BLOOMS EVERY DAY, a design-forward floral guide that shows readers how to create contemporary arrangements using accessible materials and everyday flowers by Amy McCord, creator of online supplier and educational platform Flower Moxie, to Nicole James at Quarto Books, by Elaine Spencer

Cat Sebastian's AFTER HOURS AT DOORYARD BOOKS, a story of healing, connection, and found family centered around a used bookstore in New York City in 1968, to Kerri Buckley at Dreamscape Media at auction, by Elaine Spencer

Hailey Edwards's THE PIXIE IN THE PICKLE JAR, books four and five in the Groom & Doom series, to Ryan Nuzzo at Tantor Media, in a nice two-book deal, by Lucienne Diver

NEW CLIENTS ON THE BLOCK

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Jenny Linsky

Jenny Linsky is a queer writer of queer hockey romance. She lives in Boston with her husband and two-year-old daughter and works at Harvard, her alma mater. When she's not writing, working, or child-wrangling, she runs a living-room theater troupe and records a novel-analysis podcast.

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Liz Lassiter

Liz Lassiter believes magic is like bacon: it makes everything better! That's why she's obsessed with blending fantasy into other genres, from cozy to thriller and everything in between. Inspired by her lifelong journey with chronic illness, Liz hopes her books remind readers that the real magic is how we treat each other.

NEW RELEASES

FIRST SIGN OF DANGER by Kelley Armstrong

FIRST SIGN OF DANGER by Kelley Armstrong

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New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong continues the atmospheric Haven's Rock series as Casey Duncan investigates a threat to their off-the-grid Yukon town.

Detective Casey Duncan and her husband, Sheriff Eric Dalton, are entering a new chapter of life as parents to their six-month-old baby. Their family is hidden away in the sanctuary town of Haven's Rock where they can live safe and private lives. But when they encounter hikers too close to the borders of Haven's Rock, they realize they're in danger of being exposed.

When they find one of the hikers dead the next day, they realize that their paranoia was justified, but they're no closer to finding out who these people were and what they were doing in the vicinity of Haven's Rock. Only by tracing the hikers' movements, as well as examining the recent behavior of their closest neighbors, the workers of a secretive mining camp, will they be able to figure out where the threat is coming from and shut it down. Otherwise, the lives of everyone in Haven's Rock—and their safe, secure new existence—are at risk.

OUT OF THE LOOP by Katie Siegel

OUT OF THE LOOP by Katie Siegel

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The Seven Year Slip meets Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers in this wholly original time loop mystery.

For the past two years, Amie Teller has been stuck in a time loop. Each day, she wakes up, and it's September 17. Same day, same weather, same people, same conversations. Until one day, it's September 18, and Amie is free. Before she can celebrate, Amie learns her neighbor was murdered the day before—the day Amie has lived hundreds of times.

Amie knows she has to help; nobody knows yesterday like she does. But acclimating to her new nonrepeating life proves to be more difficult than expected. How does one resume their life after a time loop, anyway?

Assisted by an ex-girlfriend who wants to make their friendship work and a grumpy neighbor who spends his days building Rube Goldberg machines, Amie sets out to track down who killed (and killed and killed and killed) Savannah Harlow. Readers who love time loop novels, amateur sleuth mysteries, and original takes on classic tropes will love Out of the Loop.

LOVE A COMEBACK by Ruthie Knox and Annie Mare

LOVE A COMEBACK by Ruthie Knox and Annie Mare

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The latest novel in this sharply witty, will-they-or-won't-they new mystery series delivers Hollywood dish, clever intrigue, and maybe even true love between actresses Bexley Simon and Sam Farmer…

Since the hugely successful reunion special for their hit show Craven’s Daughter, TV detectives Bex and Sam find themselves busier than ever—but, unfortunately, two thousand miles apart for long months. So much for quickly coaxing the long-simmering spark between them into flame. Finally back in L.A., though, all bets are off, and Bex and Sam are looking forward to some IRL time by the pool—at least until Bex’s sister, Frankie, brings home a truly juicy bit of gossip garnered from her nepo baby girl squad. 

TRAILBREAKER by Ruthie Knox and Annie Mare

TRAILBREAKER by Ruthie Knox and Annie Mare

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Suspicions that a serial killer is terrorizing a pristine tourist spot draw a single mom and budding private investigator into a twisting and deepening mystery of secrets and murder.

Single mom and newly minted private investigator Prairie Nightingale has opened the doors of her Green Bay, Wisconsin, agency and is ready for work. She and her crew aren't quite prepared for their first client, though: Bernie Dubicki, a notorious online journalist and not-altogether-reliable provocateur, who claims the idyllic vacation destination of nearby Door County is home to a serial killer. She's pinpointed four seemingly unrelated deaths that haven't raised suspicions for anyone else. But when a college student vanishes, Bernie's sizable retainer convinces Prairie to help connect the dots. And trusted, flirty FBI agent Foster Rosemare thinks Bernie might be onto something.

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RIDE OR DIE (audio) by Hailey Edwards

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Kierce sacrificed himself to save Frankie, and now it's her turn to rescue him. Whether he wants her to or not. That means venturing into Abaddon, the land of the dead, and hoping she can locate him within its shadowed depths before Dis Pater notices his favorite toy is missing. But Dis Pater isn't the only deity she has to fear.

Frankie's father has learned of her journey down to his domain, and he won't take no for an answer when he welcomes her into his home. As if one MIA parent materializing wasn't bad enough, her mother arrives with her own emotional baggage in hand. Forget the perils of traversing the underworld. Navigating this family reunion just might be what kills her.

Cold as Hell: A Haven's Rock Novel

COLD AS HELL by Kelley Armstrong (paperback)

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Haven’s Rock is a sanctuary town hidden deep in the Yukon for those who need to disappear from the regular world. Detective Casey Duncan and her husband, Sheriff Eric Dalton, are starting a family now that they’ve settled into their life here. As Casey nears the end of her pregnancy, she lets nothing, including her worried husband, stop her from investigating what happens in the forbidden forest outside the town of Haven’s Rock.

When one of the town's residents is drugged and wanders too close to the edge of town, she’s dragged into the woods kicking and screaming. She’s saved in the nick of time, but the women of the town are alarmed. Casey and Eric investigate the assault just as a snowstorm hits Haven’s Rock, covering the forest. It’s there they find a frozen body, naked in the snow. With mixed accounts of the woman's last movements, the two begin to question who they can trust—and who they can't—in their seemingly safe haven.

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ATONEMENT SKY by Nalini Singh (paperback)

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Justice-Psy Eleri Dias knows the end is near for her, her mind one step away from fatal psychic exposure. In the short time that remains, she is determined to atone for an act of omission that has haunted her for a long, cruel decade. But that decision not only means facing a powerful changeling wing leader, but also putting herself in the path of a serial killer.

Falcon wing leader Adam Garrett is fiercely protective of his family and his clan. After losing his parents as a teenager in a shocking act of malice, Adam has no forgiveness in him for the J-Psy who betrayed him, betrayed them, at the most painful moment of his life. But the evil that stalks his territory will allow him no respite, forcing him once more into contact with the J he has never been able to forget.

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