Helloooooooo! And congratulations to all of you who participated in the 24-in-48 readathon this past weekend. Now – who’s ready for more exciting book-related news? There’s some good stuff here. I hope everything in your world is marvelous and you have something wonderful to read. Enjoy your upcoming week, and be excellent to each other. – xoxo, Liberty
Sponsored by The Birthday Girl by Sue Fortin
Four friends. A party to die for. One killer surprise.
As birthday girl Joanne turns forty, no one wants to celebrate her special day, or play along with her idea of a fun party – a weekend away in a cozy cottage in the woods. But as her friends reluctantly gather round her it quickly becomes clear that there is more to Joanne’s birthday weekend, because Joanne is planning to reveal a secret that one of her friends is hiding… A beautiful cottage in the middle of the countryside sounds idyllic – until no one can hear your cries for help. And when Joanne’s party turns into a murder scene, one of the party guests must be the killer. As secrets unravel, the rest of Jo’s friends face a race against time to discover the murderer, before they are next on the killer’s guest list…
Deals, Reals, and Squeals!
It isn’t even out yet, but it has been announced that The Oracle Year by Charles Soule will be a television series. (The book drops April 3.)
Ashley C. Ford will be publishing her memoir, Somebody’s Daughter, with Flatiron Books.
Zendaya will star in the adaptation of the Karin Tanabe novel, The Gilded Years, which is based on a true story. She will play Anita Hemmings, a light-skinned African American woman who passed as white so she could attend Vassar at the turn of the 20th century.
Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy series adaptation in the works from Paramount.
The Big Sick co-writer Emily V. Gordon will adapt The Nest for Amazon.
Meryl Streep to star in Big Little Lies Season 2 for HBO.
Brandon Taylor will publish two books with Riverhead Books and Calvert Morgan.
Cover Reveals
Last week I completely botched the linking for this so I’m sharing it again: Here’s a peek at Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga Press, June 26)
And here’s the reveal for the second book in Alyssa Cole’s Reluctant Royals series: A Duke by Default. (Avon, July 31)
Nnedi Okorafor just revealed the first cover of her five-issue comic, called Antar: The Black Knight. (April)
Epic Reads has the first look at All of This is True by Lygia Day Peñaflor. (Harper Teen, May 15)
And last but not least, here’s the first look at Dragons in a Bag by Zetta Elliott. (Which has an actual lift-the-curtain reveal which is really cool!) (Random House, October)
Sneak Peeks!
The trailer for the adaptation of the graphic novel I Kill Giants is here!
Oh mah gah: Here’s the new trailer for A Wrinkle in Time.
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!
Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing by Ursula K. Le Guin and David Naimo (Tin House Books, July 17)
The death of Le Guin last week was a tremendous loss to literature. I loved her novels, but recently discovered I love her nonfiction even more. She was brilliant, acerbic, blisteringly funny, and wildly empathetic. This is a slim collection of her discussing writing, always a treat. She will be greatly missed.
Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala (Harper, March 6)
An emotional, wrenching new novel from the author of Beasts of No Nation, about a young Nigerian American in a D.C. high school who is amazing at athletics and has been accepted to Harvard. But he’s feeling emotionally tormented from trying to hide the fact that he is gay from his conservative parents, who consider it a sin.
And this is funny.
Mat Johnson + 90s song reference = perfection.
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