Hello and happy Monday! I have a few great things to share with you today. The awesomeness never stops! I hope you also had a wonderful week, and that you’re reading something marvelous! Enjoy your upcoming week, and be excellent to each other. – xoxo, Liberty
Sponsored by Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Is Where It Ends
Best friends Corey and Kyra were inseparable in their snow-covered town of Lost Creek, Alaska. When Corey moves away, she makes Kyra promise to stay strong during the long, dark winter, and wait for her return. Just days before Corey is to return home to visit, Kyra dies. Corey is devastated—and confused. The entire Lost community speaks in hushed tones about the town’s lost daughter. Corey knows something is wrong. Lost is keeping secrets—chilling secrets. But piecing together the truth about what happened may prove as difficult as lighting the sky in an Alaskan winter.
Deals, Reals, and Squeals!
John Green’s Turtles All the Way Down will be a film.
Riverdale offshoot Sabrina moves to Netflix with 2-season order.
Puerto Rico Strong comic anthology coming in 2018.
Kal Penn signs book deal for 2019 essay collection.
Slaughterhouse-Five is being developed for television.
Season two of Big Little Lies is officially happening.
Marvel is making an animated movie full of diverse superheroes.
There’s a new Kate Atkinson coming next year!
Mackenzi Lee is writing a series for Marvel.
Patrick Somerville will develop Alissa Nutting’s Made for Love with the author and Dean Bakopoulos.
John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War in development at Netflix.
Cover Reveals
Here’s the first look at the cover of the new Alix Hawley, My Name is a Knife. (Knopf, summer 2018)
Gorgeous cover for Claire Legrand’s Furyborn. (Sourcebooks Fire, May 22, 2018)
Sneak Peeks!
The first official photos from the film adaptation of Every Day.
And the first look at Jason Momoa in the Aquaman film.
Jeff Goldblum is back! Here’s the first trailer for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
Book Riot Recommends
At Book Riot, I work on the New Books! email, the All the Books! podcast about new releases, and the Book Riot Insiders New Release Index. I am very fortunate to get to read a lot of upcoming titles, and I’m delighted to share a couple with you each week!
The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea (Little, Brown and Company, March 6, 2018):
The wonderful author of Into the Beautiful North and The Hummingbird’s Daughter, is back with a complex family portrait about an ailing patriarch who brings his family together for one last party.
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O’Farrell (Knopf, February 6, 2018)
This is a beautiful love letter from mother to daughter: O’Farrell’s daughter has an autoimmune disease, so O’Farrell has written her a memoir about the times she herself has come close to death, whether through illness or accident or violent. It’s wildly fascinating but also tender.
And this is funny.
Wham! gets the Lovecraft treatment.