Dear Book Friends,
Hello, and happy Thursday. It’s me, Emily, coming to you from my cat cave. I am surrounded by all three of my cats right now, and they say hello. The cats and I have a lot of book news to share with you today, so let’s do this!
Book Deals and Reveals
Author Silvia Moreno-Garcia has shared some rather disappointing news: “Hulu did not renew the option for Mexican Gothic: so no show will be made,” she tweeted. “I appreciate the hard work of everyone in trying to bring it to the screen. Hopefully it gets adapted in the future.”
Here’s the cover reveal of If I Were You by Cesca Major. The author describes the book as a “mad & sad ‘What If’ soul swapping [love] story set over a fancy wedding weekend!” It’s out this July!
Yellowjackets actress Nicole Maines has announced a new memoir, It Gets Better…Except When It Gets Worse. The book will be published on October 15.
Here’s the cover for Alan Moore’s upcoming novel The Great When. This one’s out from Bloomsbury on October 1.
Jenna Bush Hager has announced her next Read With Jenna book club pick! It’s Real Americans by Rachel Khong!
Butterfly in the Sky, the documentary about Reading Rainbow and its beloved host, LeVar Burton, is now available to stream on available on demand on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Google Play, and XBOX!
The Love We Found by Jill Santopolo, the sequel to the international bestseller The Light We Lost, will be published in spring 2025 by Putnam.
Kayla Hardy’s The Quarter Queen, “a mother-daughter saga set in a magically and racially divided 19th-century New Orleans,” with be published by Ballantine. No publication date has been set yet.
Sean “Big Sean” Anderson will publish his book Go Higher: Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace with Simon Element this October.
Participating in Book Riot’s Read Harder challenge? Here are six AAPI books you can read for the challenge to celebrate AAPI Heritage Month!
Book Riot Recommends
Hi, welcome to everyone’s favorite segment of Book Radar called Book Riot Recommends. This is where I’ll talk to you about all the books I’m reading, the books I’m loving, and the books I can’t wait to read and love in the near future. I think you’re going to love them too!
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Can’t Wait for This One!
Roland Rogers Isn’t Dead Yet by Samantha Allen (Zando, September 10)
Samantha Allen, author of Patricia Wants to Cuddle, has her sophomore novel out from Zando this fall, and I absolutely cannot wait for this one to hit shelves! It has everything you could possibly want! Romance! Celebrity gossip! Ghosts!
Roland Rogers is an A-list actor who has been hiding a secret for years. But now he’s ready to spill in his brand new tell-all memoir, and he’s chosen the perfect ghostwriter to help him tell his story. For ex-Mormon and memoirist Adam Gallagher, helping a Hollywood heartthrob tell his life story sounds like a pretty cushy gig. There’s only one problem…Roland Rogers isn’t alive anymore.
Yep, you heard right. Roland Rogers is already dead. But with a lot of concentrated effort, the late actor has found a way to communicate to the world of the living through his kitchen speaker. Now he must tell his story to Adam before time runs out and the rest of the world discovers that he’s dead. As the two men race against the clock to get Roland’s story down on paper, they don’t always agree with how the memoir should be written. Nevertheless, they might just fall for each other anyway.
Words of Literary Wisdom
“If TV has taught us anything, it’s that the murder rate in small villages is disproportionately high.”
— How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin
And Here’s A Cat Picture!
Here we have a very unique sight! A three-cat pile-up! Cersei, Murray, and Remy all existing peacefully together. The end of the world must be nigh.
But we already knew that.
Anyhow! That’s all I have for this round of Book Radar. I hope you have a gorgeous weekend, whether you finish seven books or whether you read nothing at all. Just have fun! And see you Monday!