CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA is Coming Back and More Book Radar!

Happy Monday, my little page turners! I hope you had a wonderful weekend. As I write this, it is Friday, and I am over the moon because I got my hands on a manuscript of Emily M. Danforth’s forthcoming horror novel. I could not be more excited! It’s called Plain Bad Heroines and it’s about a cursed New England girls’ boarding school, and a horror movie being made about the curse. It’s going to be a while before it comes out, but you should mark it down now!

I also settled on a new show to watch: Bones! It’s exactly what I wanted. It’s not too serious but not too light, plus murder. (Also, in the last newsletter, I said Supernatural has 12 seasons instead of 15. My bad.)

Whatever it is you’re doing this week, I hope you have something wonderful to read. Please enjoy the rest of your week, and remember to be excellent to each other! I’ll see you again on Thursday. – xoxo, Liberty

Here’s Monday’s trivia question: What author once managed a Saab car dealership in Massachusetts? (Scroll to the bottom for the answer.)

Deals, Reels, and Squeals! 

Here’s the first trailer for Joe Hill’s Locke & Key.

One Night in Miami, Regina King’s directorial debut adapted from the Kemp Powers play, has been cast.

BOOM! is planning a graphic novel version of Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut.

And there’s a three-volume graphic novel adaptation of Dune by Frank Herbert is coming too.

And in even more graphic novel news, IDW is teaming up with the Smithsonian Institution for a new line.

Here’s the cover reveal of Evelyn Del Rey Is Moving Away, Meg Medina’s upcoming picture book.

Here’s the first look at Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina, Part 3.

Here’s the cover reveal of Katrina Leno’s Horrid.

And here’s the cover reveal for The Vanderbeekers Lost and Found by Rioter Karina Yan Glaser. (Yay, Karina!)

FX is hoping to make more Charles Dickens adaptations.

Here’s the cover reveal of Queen of Volts by Amanda Foody.

The upcoming Cinderella adaptation has cast its stepsisters.

Jonathan Lethem’s Gun, With Occasional Music is being adapted for television.

Cary Joji Fukunaga is adapting The Last Of The Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper.

And here’s the first look at the cover of Over the Woodward Wall by A. Deborah Baker.

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 learn about a lot of upcoming titles, and I’m delighted to share a couple with you each week so you can add them to your TBR!

Excited to read:

Plain Bad Heroines by emily m. danforth (William Morrow, 2021)

As I mentioned above, I just received this manuscript and I am SCREAMING. I love The Miseducation of Cameron Post so, so much, and this one also sounds incredible. I was told it “tells the interwoven story of a cursed, fin de siècle girls boarding school in coastal New England and the making of a 21st century horror film about that curse. It also heavily features the wonderful (and very queer) 1902 teen memoir, The Story of Mary MacLane.”” Emily has been calling it “Picnic at Hanging Rock + The Blair Witch Project + The Night Film x lesbians.” WHOOOOOA, MUFFINS! I can’t wait to finish my work and get started on this book! It is a while before its publication, so in the meantime, you should check out the writing of Mary MacLane, who is an actual figure from history. I recommend I Await the Devil’s Coming.

What I’m reading this week:

The Wagers by Sean Michaels

Three Keys (A Front Desk Novel) by Kelly Yang

Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why: Essays by Alexandra Petri

Winter Counts: A Novel by David Heska Wanbli Weiden

Parakeet: A Novel by Marie-Helene Bertino

Pun of the week: 

What do you call a lazy goat? Billy Idle.

Here’s a cat picture:

And this is funny.

This raccoon sure is thirsty.

Trivia answer: Kurt Vonnegut.

You made it to the bottom! Thanks for reading! – xo, L