Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio. Keep up with your reading by listening to the audiobook – and never miss a book club meeting!
Keep up with your book club reading by listening to the audiobook. Audiobooks are the perfect complement to your busy schedule. Listen to new releases such as The Kennedy Debutante, by Kerri Maher and read by Julia Whelan and you can enjoy a whole new book club experience. For more listening suggestions, visit Tryaudiobooks.com/BookRiot.
Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by NaNoWriMo, a nonprofit that believes your story matters. Write your novel this November during National Novel Writing Month!
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to creative writing. Every year, hundreds of thousands of writers around the world take on the challenge of writing 50,000 words of a novel in the 30 days of November.
Track your progress on our website with personalized writing stats and graphs, meet local writers for neighborhood write-ins, and receive pep talks from authors like Justina Ireland, Min Jin Lee, and Andy Weir.
Valuing enthusiasm, determination, and a deadline, NaNoWriMo is for anyone who has ever thought about writing a novel. Sign up today!
Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Chronicle Books
The ultimate gift for book lovers, Bibliophile brims with literary treasures, all delightfully illustrated by beloved artist and founder of Ideal Bookshelf, Jane Mount.
Readers will:
• Tour the world’s most beautiful bookstores
• Test their knowledge of the written word with quizzes
• Find their next great read in lovingly curated stacks of books
• Sample the most famous fictional meals
• Peek inside the workspaces of their favorite authors
… and much more!
A source of endless inspiration, Bibliophile is sure to enchant any and all who identify as bookworms.
Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Park Row Books and EVERGREEN TIDINGS FROM THE BAUMGARTNERS by Gretchen Anthony.
A formidable matriarch goes to wild efforts to wrest back control of her family in this sidesplitting dramedy set in the Midwest—perfect for fans of This is Where I Leave You and The People We Hate at the Wedding.
Delightful, surprising, and full of heart, Gretchen Anthony’s Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners brings to life a sparkling cast of characters whose struggle to understand one another illuminates the unbreakable bonds of family, no matter how dysfunctional they can get.
Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Penguin Teen
In the sequel to the acclaimed Beasts Made of Night, Taj has escaped Kos, but Queen Karima will go to any means necessary–including using the deadliest magic–to track him down. Taj is headed west, but the consequences of leaving Kos behind confront him at every turn. As Taj and Aliya explore their feelings for each other and Arzu connects with her homeland, the local westerners begin to question Taj’s true identity. Karima is on his heels, sending dark warnings to the little village where he’s hiding. Taj will have to go back and face her before she sends her most deadly weapon–Taj’s former best friend, Bo.
Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Like Never and Always by Ann Aguirre.
One summer night, Liv, Morgan, Clay, and Nathan are driving home from a party. Best friends dating brothers? It doesn’t get better than that. But the joyride ends in disaster.
Liv wakes in the hospital. At first she’s confused when they call her Morgan, but she assumes it’s a case of mistaken identity. Yet when the bandages come off, it’s not her face in the mirror. It’s Morgan’s.
Forced to confront the disturbing truths that Morgan kept hidden in life, Liv must navigate a world of long-buried murder, a dangerous love affair—and a romance that feels like a betrayal.
Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Lost Soul Be at Peace by Maggie Thrash
A year and a half after the summer that changed her life, Maggie Thrash wishes she could change it all back. She’s trapped in a dark depression and flunking eleventh grade, befuddling her patrician mother while going unnoticed by her father, a workaholic federal judge. The only thing Maggie cares about is her cat, Tommi . . . who then disappears somewhere in the walls of her cavernous house. So her search begins — but Maggie’s not even really sure what she’s lost, and she has no idea what she’ll find. Lost Soul, Be at Peace is the continuation of Maggie’s story from her critically acclaimed memoir Honor Girl, one that brings her devastating honesty and humor to the before and after of depression.
Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Fierce Reads
Brysen strives to be a great falconer but his twin sister, Kylee, rejects her ancient gifts. She’s nearly made it out, too, but with a war on the horizon, no bird or falconer is safe.
Together the twins must journey into the treacherous mountains to trap the Ghost Eagle, a solitary killer that could save them. Brysen goes for the boy he loves and the glory he’s long craved, and Kylee to atone for her past and protect her brother’s future. But both are hunted by those who seek one thing: power.
In this YA fantasy series starter, Alex London launches a soaring saga about the memories that haunt us, the histories that hunt us, and the bonds of blood between us.
Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Kill the Queen by Jennifer Estep
Dark forces are at work inside the Bellona royal court. When the crown princess assassinates her mother to take the throne by force, even seventeenth-in-line-for-the-throne Lady Everleigh is in danger.
Forced into hiding to survive, she falls in with a gladiator troupe. Though they use their talents to entertain, the gladiators are highly trained warriors. Uncertain of her future Evie begins training with the troupe. But as the bloodthirsty queen exerts her power, Evie’s fate becomes clear: she must become a gladiator . . . and kill the queen
Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Inkshares, the publishing and rights management platform behind books like Scott Thomas’ Kill Creek and Christopher Huang’s A Gentleman’s Murder.
Join fellow novelists in submitting your partial or finished manuscripts to Inkshares’ Mystery-Thriller and Horror contests, running through November 21st and December 15th, respectively. At least three novels per contest will be chosen for publication and representation.
Inkshares books have garnered starred reviews in every publishing magazine, features in major publications including USA Today, The Washington Post, and The New York Times, awards from organizations including the American Library Association, and have reached the global top-five most-sold books. Inkshares’ novels have been licensed in foreign territories alongside top-of-market advances and are in development for television and film at top networks and studios.
Is your novel next?
Check out the Inkshares Horror Contest Video Trailer here.
Check out the Inkshares Mystery-Thriller Contest Video Trailer here.