The New York Times published a business cover story by GOLDEN GATES author Conor Dougherty titled “One Way to Get People Off the Streets: Buy Hotels.” Dougherty writes: “[T]he pandemic, which according to a dire early projection could have killed 25,000 homeless people in the state, added two sorely needed ingredients — federal money and an excuse to move fast. With the travel industry hobbled and stimulus money continuing to flow, [California] Gov. Gavin Newsom has since doubled down by creating a program to buy hotels in hopes of creating permanent homeless housing en masse…In a blizzard of transactions that sidestepped many of the local rules that make California one of the nation’s hardest places to build, the state spent $800 million on 94 projects that will become permanent supportive housing, or housing that is paired with on-site social services.” Penguin Press published the book on February 18, 2020.

Dawnie Walton’s THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL & NEV appeared on The New Yorker’s Briefly Noted. They praise the way “the novel offers a lively take on the music industry’s commercialism, racism, and sexism, and also a commentary on how history and memory are refracted through changing cultural currents.” 37 Ink published the novel on March 30, 2021.

THE PROPHETS by Robert Jones Jr. was featured on BLACK BUCK author Mateo Askaripour’s list of “10 Books that ‘Disrupted’ the Literary Status Quo” on Goodreads. He writes: "Playing with time, history, and shifting ideas of power, Jones’ novel focuses on the love between two enslaved Black men, producing a story that despite never being told before, was one the world needed. I know I did. And that is nothing to say of what he does at the line level, turning his sentences into vehicles for multiple meanings, ways of thinking, and forms of feeling in a way that only someone who has truly dedicated themselves to their craft, and the people they want to serve through their work, ever can." G.P. Putnam’s Sons published the novel on January 5, 2021.

Sharon Stone’s THE BEAUTY OF LIVING TWICE is featured in Time Magazine’s “How Celebrity Memoirs Got So Good.” They write: “The most compelling passages…are the clear-eyed, and at times brutally honest, recollections of how [Stone’s] persevered in the wake of trauma inflicted not by nature or accident but by other people…In spite of Stone’s four decades in the industry, THE BEAUTY OF LIVING TWICE is far from the glitzy account of Hollywood that readers might expect. Instead, it shows a woman who’s spent the majority of her years in the public eye seizing the opportunity to tell her story entirely on her own terms.” Knopf published the memoir on March 30, 2021.

Gabriela Garcia’s debut novel, OF WOMEN AND SALT, was chosen as a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, and hit the Publishers Weekly hardcover fiction bestseller list at #19. Vanity Fair also included the novel in its April Books & Totes feature. The Atlanta-Journal Constitution praises Garcia’s “varied lyricism,” noting that “[t]he book dismantles a variety of myths, including the idea that Latino people are a monolith and function as one unified body,” and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette calls the novel “[a] breathtaking narrative from an author whose voice is already as confident as that of more seasoned writers.” Flatiron Books published the novel on March 30, 2021.

Demi Moore’s INSIDE OUT is featured in Time Magazine’s “How Celebrity Memoirs Got So Good.” They write: “One of the most apt examples of [the] approach to taking back control of the narrative, and an early example of this rising trend, may be Demi Moore’s 2019 memoir, INSIDE OUT. The prototype of an A-lister during the tabloid era, the actor was committed to laying bare even the most painful moments of her life in service of telling her full story, making for a read that was not only compelling but also nuanced in its bracing honesty.” Harper published the memoir on September 24, 2019.

Henry Porter’s THE OLD ENEMY was named a Book of the Month by The Sunday Times. They write: “This novel is at once an up-to-the-minute political novel about an emergent second Cold War, a timeless ripping espionage yarn and a continuation of the lives of characters who become richer with each appearance. It’s an impressive achievement and, as ever with Porter, told in an addictive blend of tangy dialogue and polished prose.” Atlantic Monthly Press will publish the book on June 8, 2021.

Carole Johnstone’s chilling suspense novel MIRRORLAND is a May Indie Next Pick. Pete Mock of McIntyre’s Fine Books in Pittsboro, NC says: “You will tie yourself in knots trying to figure out what’s happening in MIRRORLAND.” Scribner will publish the novel on April 20, 2021.

WHY WE BELIEVE author Agustín Fuentes joined Ben Folds on the first episode of the Lightening Bugs podcast, "Discovering the Evolution of Creativity and Why Monkeys Steal Things." Yale University Press published WHY WE BELIEVE published on September 24, 2019.

THE PROPHETS by Robert Jones Jr. appeared on both the BBC’s and Marie Claire's best-of lists for 2021. The BBC praises: “THE PROPHETS is reminiscent of and inspired by the work of Toni Morrison, its narrative reaching back and forth, as The Guardian writes, ‘wedded to its period but also of our times, exploring the pressing questions that have plagued America since its founding.’” G.P. Putnam’s sons published the book on January 5, 2021.