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.

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.

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.

Georgia Clark’s next novel, IT HAD TO BE YOU, has been chosen as FabFitFun’s Summer Book Club pick. The book will be featured in FFF’s printed magazine, and Clark will be providing exclusive content and interviews to subscribers. The book has also hit best-of lists from PureWow, The Pioneer Woman, BuzzFeed Books, and Frolic Media. Emily Bestler Books will publish the book on May 4, 2021.

After debuting on the New York Times bestseller list, Gabriela Garcia’s OF WOMEN AND SALT continues to accumulate great press. In coordination with the GMA book club, Garcia appeared on Good Morning America to discuss the inspiration for her novel and the impact she hopes it will have on perceptions of immigration and Latinx identity. Garcia also sat down for an interview with B&N reads, and with the New York Times for its “Inside the List” column to talk about how it felt to see her debut become a bestseller – “an occasion Garcia described as ‘beyond my wildest dreams.’” Flatiron Books published the novel on March 30, 2021.

Deadline announced on April 15 that Carrie Mulligan will star in Netflix’s adaptation of Jaroslav Kalfar’s debut novel, SPACEMAN OF BOHEMIA. This news comes on the heels of Adam Sandler and Paul Dano’s commitment to the project, with Channing Tatum, among others, set to produce. Little, Brown and Company the book on March 7, 2017.

Judson Brewer joined Ezra Klein on The Ezra Klein Show podcast to discuss UNWINDING ANXIETY. Klein says: “[Brewer] argues that anxiety is a kind of addiction, and that like any addiction you have to understand its rewards in order to begin addressing it. I think it’s a pretty interesting framework. I’m not saying it has cured me of anxiety, but it’s given me a much more generative way to think about it and to approach it.” Avery published the book on March 9, 2021.