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NEWS

STAR SHIPPED by Cat Sebastian made the USA Today bestseller list and was also featured in Swooon’s 13 Best Romance Books of March 2026, included in Book Riot’s 10 of the Best New Romance Books to Read in March, highlighted in Book Riot’s new release roundup, included in LGBTQ Reads’ new release roundup, featured in Hasty Book List’s books publishing this week roundup, and received a mention in Harper’s Bazaar through B.K. Borison’s interview.

HEATED RIVALRY by Rachel Reid marked 13 consecutive weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and, for the week ending March 7, also appeared on the New York Times Combined Print & E-Book Fiction and Trade Paperback Fiction lists, while Rachel’s Game Changers series continued its bestseller run with three titles appearing on the USA Today bestseller list and six titles landing on the Toronto Star Canadian fiction list. Recent media attention also included Rachel discussing the next Shane and Ilya novel, UNRIVALED, with Out, news from Variety that season 2 of the television adaptation of her series is set to film this summer ahead of a spring 2027 return, and The Hollywood Reporter’s coverage of HEATED RIVALRY’s recognition at the 2026 GLAAD Media Awards.

FUTURE’S EDGE by Gareth L. Powell was longlisted for the 2026 Aldiss Award, and WHO WILL YOU SAVE? was shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Collection.

DUNGEONS AND DRAMA by Kristy Boyce was selected for 12 state awards and reading lists, including honors in Illinois, Maine, Texas, Vermont, Missouri, New Hampshire, Ohio, South Dakota, Utah, Louisiana, and North Carolina.

IT WATCHES IN THE DARK by Jeff Strand was nominated for the 2026–2027 Pennsylvania Mountain Laurel Book Award, a reader’s choice program sponsored by the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association that promotes outstanding books for young readers across the Commonwealth.

AUTHOR TIP OF THE MONTH

Cat Sebastian is an award-winning author of queer romance. Cat’s books have received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Booklist. WE COULD BE SO GOOD won a Lambda Literary Award in 2024, and her latest novel is STAR SHIPPED.

 
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Cat's Tip:

I keep a running list of words I overuse. When I finish a draft, I search the manuscript for those words and get rid of any that I've used excessively. That way, I don't have to think about my weird writing quirks when I'm drafting and can focus on the story. My current list of offenders includes actually, just, somewhat, really, and very much. I also search for roll, shrug, and eyebrow because my characters are forever rolling eyes and shrugging and lifting an eyebrow, much more than any human being has done in all of history.

RECENT DEALS

NYT–bestselling author of THE HOUSE IN THE CERULEAN SEA TJ Klune's MURMURATION, INTO THIS RIVER I DROWN, HOW TO BE A NORMAL PERSON, and THE IMMEMORIAL YEAR, as well as four untitled queer novels, to Ali Fisher at Tor in separate major deals, each for seven figures, by Deidre Knight

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

Author of THE TAKEOVER Cara Tanamachi's MATCHA & MATCHES, in which a girl spends a summer in Japan at her estranged father's matcha cafe, battling his golden boy protege to prove she's his rightful heir—until her sabotage backfires and she starts falling for her rival instead—to Carolina Mancheno Ortiz at Harper Children's, by Deidre Knight

Author of CHARLOTTE ILLES IS NOT A DETECTIVE and OUT OF THE LOOP Katie Siegel's ONE FOR THE BOOKS, in which a charming bookseller and a thief assemble a team to steal back a valuable book taken as tribute for the new king, to Shannon Plackis at Avon A in a nice deal, by Melissa Jeglinski

Deena Alexander's SEEKING THE MISSING CHILD, the first in a new Missing Person Investigations miniseries set against the wilds of Montana, to Katie Gowrie at Love Inspired Suspense in a four-book deal, by Elaine Spencer

Producer and founder Kim Kuhteubl's KNOWN, pitched for women over 40 who feel “deeply unseen,” a practice (for life and business) that redefines what it means to be visible and cuts through the cultural noise of brand strategy, fame, executive presence, and social media, to Marilyn Kretzer at Blackstone Publishing, by Elaine Spencer

NEW CLIENTS ON THE BLOCK

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Ali Rowan

Ali Rowan is a YA Contemporary writer, a professional graphic designer, a knitter, a YouTuber, a scrapbooker—a maker of something, always. She lives just outside Toronto where she writes under the close supervision of her dog, powered by endless mugs of Earl Grey.

Carlie St George

Carlie St. George

Carlie St. George is an award-nominated writer who lives in Northern California with her tiny adorable monsters named after literary detectives and Batman villains. She loves genre mashups, gallows humor, stories that play with structure, and all things horror.

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Staci Layne Wilson

Staci Layne Wilson is a Las Vegas–based author of more than twenty books spanning horror, nonfiction, classic rock, and the unexpectedly fascinating world of rats. Her work explores the darker corners of culture, from music history to true crime, always with a sharp eye and a storyteller’s flair. When she’s not writing, she directs films and is “mom” to an adorable mischief of four whiskered companions who occasionally supervise the creative process.

T.S. Parnell

T.S. Parnell

T.S. Parnell is a midwestern author of genre-bending fiction. When not writing or reading, he can be found exploring local bookstores or sitting in the back corner of a movie theater. Connect with him and some of his work at tsparnell.com.

NEW RELEASES

A DEADLY INHERITANCE by Kelley Armstrong

A DEADLY INHERITANCE by Kelley Armstrong

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After discovering she's an heiress to a billion-dollar corporation, seventeen-year-old Liliana finds herself at a new boarding school where she must navigate secret societies and a deadly competition. Not to mention two handsome boys.

The Reappearance of Rachel Price meets The Inheritance Games series in this new YA thriller from bestselling author Kelley Armstrong.

In the wake of her mother's death, Liliana Chamberlain's estranged (and very wealthy) grandparents swoop in. Or their lawyer does. Her grandparents aren't ready to meet her, but they want her to have the life her mother walked away from, starting with Westdale Academy, the elite boarding school her mother attended.

JITTERBUG by Gareth L. Powell

JITTERBUG by Gareth L. Powell

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In this twisty and action-packed adventure from the BSFA award-winning author of Descendant Machine and Future's Edge, a crew of bounty hunters find themselves ensnared in a conspiracy on the very fringes of the devastated solar system. Perfect for fans of James S. A. Corey and Adrian Tchaikovsky.

"On Earth, they depicted justice as blindfolded and impartial, but out here on the frontier, she was red in tooth and claw."

Jupiter and Saturn are gone, and a mysterious force has built a huge habitable sphere from their ashes. When criminals try to lose themselves on this new frontier, bounty hunters like Copernicus Brown and the crew of his sentient ship Jitterbug get paid to hunt them down. But when Brown rescues Amber Roth, sole survivor of a pirate attack, the Jitterbug and her crew find themselves the target of powerful political factions who want control of the data chip hidden in Roth's stomach.

STAR SHIPPED by Cat Sebastian

STAR SHIPPED by Cat Sebastian

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Cat Sebastian's long-awaited foray into contemporary romance!

A witty, emotional, and deliciously slow burn enemies-to-lovers romance between two costars on a popular sci-fi television series.

Simon and Charlie, actors on a long-running sci-fi show, can't stand one another. Charlie is impetuous, outgoing, and basically feral, and Simon thinks he should have stayed in reality television where he belongs. They've spent the better part of a decade quarreling over the spotlight and pretty much everything else, and everybody in the industry knows it.

Now that Simon's contract is finally done, he can move to New York, start fresh with work he actually likes, and get away from Charlie.

Simon's only problem is that people might assume he's been pushed off the show due to being impossible to work with. And he is kind of difficult to work with. He doesn't get along with people—unlike Charlie, who somehow tricked everyone on the show into adoring him despite some outrageously bad on-set behavior during the show's first season.

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