On the List: Twisted Love by Ana Huang
Ana Huang is a USA Today, international, and number-one Amazon bestselling author.
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On the List: High-Stakes Blizzard by Rebecca Hopewell
Publisher: Harlequin (HarperCollins), Live Inspired Inspirational Romance seriesGenre: Inspirational Suspense Romance | $6.50 mass market | $4.99 ebookRelease date: Feb. 21, 2023 Rebecca Hopewell is the kiss-only pen name for an award-winning romance author who lives just outside San Francisco. She’s currently writing her next Love Inspired Suspense novel. High-Stakes Blizzard is the first novel under this pen name. … Read more
Trend Watch: TikTok Offers Book Contracts
Updates on TikTok’s book publishing contracts, discussions over ChatGPT and advance review copies, plus #MSWL Rumblings started last month that TikTok appeared to be planning its own publishing operation, based on a new position posting for an acquisition editor. In April, parent company ByteDance filed an application for a US trademark for a new book-publishing … Read more
On the List: Amish Wilderness Survival by Mary Alford
Mary Alford is the USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of more than 50 novels.
Trend Watch: April 12, 2023
What agents and editors want in romance and YA fiction—plus a kerfuffle about grief stories.
On the List: Icebreaker by Hannah Grace
Icebreaker is Grace’s debut novel and the first book of the sports romance series The Maple Hills.
On the List: On Air with Zoe Washington by Janae Marks
The second book in the Zoe Washington series was recognized as a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection.
Trend Watch: The Rise of De-Influencers + CoHo Backlash
What’s new in #MSWL and TikTok trends.
On the List: The Davenports by Krystal Marquis
Set in Chicago in 1910, the novel follows the family of a formerly enslaved man who rose to great wealth through entrepreneurship.
On the List: The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
Before The Housemaid, Freida McFadden self-published 14 other novels and edited one anthology, with many Amazon bestsellers among them.