Melissa L. Sevigny is the full-time science reporter at KNAU-Arizona Public Radio, and her writing has appeared on NPR and in Terrain.org, River Teeth, Orion, and The Atavist Magazine. She has an MFA in creative writing and environment from Iowa State University.

Melissa L. Sevigny

Erin Williams is a Believer Book Award nominated graphic memoirist and illustrator whose work has appeared in MoMA Magazine, Virginia Quarterly Review, Buzzfeed, Salon, The Huffington Post, Scary Mommy, and other publications. She has written and illustrated ten books, including the best-selling Big Activity Book series with Tarcher Perigee. She has an undergraduate degree from NYU in Creative Writing, completed post-bacc work in Biology and Chemistry at Brooklyn College, and is currently an MFA candidate at Hunter College. She teaches studio art and narrative medicine to illustration majors at Parsons, The New School.

“A healing book for the world weary and traumatized, the over-burdened & under-mothered. This elegantly illustrated and inspired collaboration has a cure on every page. Hilarious and brave, tender and wise. Buy this book for yourself, and anybody else who needs a dang break.”—Mary Karr, New York Times bestselling author of The Liars’ Club, Cherry, Lit, and Art of Memoir

"Entering the world of this book—and it truly eels like a world, lushly illustrated, radiating tenderness and honesty—feels like sitting by a window and talking with a bighearted friend who also happens to be funny as f-ck, and eating hot fudge sundaes while a rainstorm rages outside. The sky is dark, and the flood might be coming, but the air is bristling with candor and compassion, just like these pages, which are full of hard-won insights attuned to the body, alive to the soul, and always aware of their entwinement. Something in this book will crack open a window in your life, I promise you—to let in the smell of the rain, the cold moonlight, the snow under streetlamps, the dawn."—Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams

"With warmth and compassion, Williams and Novotny have created a reassuring, loving, and essential guide to taking care. If, like me, you are sure you were absent the day they handed out the life manuals, it’s here now. You will love this book, but even better, this book will love you back."—Elizabeth Crane, author of This Story Will Change

“How to Take Care feels like a comfortable cup of tea with your wise but hilarious friends. Erin and Kate offer, in warm, bite-size pieces, offerings of healing that make do-able that ever illusive idea of “self-care.” [They] deftly weave personal experience, clinical expertise and curiosity, providing us with hopeful resources to honor the past and move confidently into our futures.”—Rebecca Feldman, midwife, psychiatric nurse practitioner and psychotherapist

“How to Take Care has the feeling of cracking open a wise auntie’s grimoire in that it is both referential and ancestral—a collection of hard-earned knowings, lovingly compiled. My heart beams thinking of this timeless book being passed down from hand to hand, kitchen to kitchen, generation to generation.”—Brittany Carmona-Holt, birthworker, educator, and author of Tarot for Pregnancy: A Companion for Radical Magical Birthing Folks

Long-listed for the 2019 Believer Book Award for Nonfiction

Named a Best Book of 2019 by Book Riot, The A.V. Club, and The Strand 

"Williams does not shy away from her shame. She is also angry, and she knows she is not alone, and that brilliant anger is where the book becomes truly great. Her confidence—and literal straight gaze at the reader, full of vulnerability and challenge—makes this volume a critique, a lament, and a sigh. As Williams elegantly argues, many women need all three. This sharp and splendidly drawn memoir will strike a strong chord in the current moment. "―Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

“One day’s commute offers time for the author to reflect on sexual predators, alcoholism, and the experiences she understands better now than she did at the time…A catharsis for the author that fits perfectly within a pivotal period for society and culture at large.”―Kirkus Reviews

"...[Williams] adds an eloquent voice to the chorus of stories testifying to the daily experiences of women under patriarchy.Commuteis a book that really should be read by everyone."―BookPage, Starred Review

“This is welcoming, soul-baring, stunningly interconnected, and very discussable.”―Booklist

"[An] extraordinary graphic novel..."―Ms. Magazine

“Williams is as unapologetic in this book as she is vulnerable, which makes for a unique, timely, and powerful read.”―The Beat

“Commute is a formidable, defiant statement of vulnerability leading to strength.”―The Comics Journal

Select Praise for The Big Activity Book series:

“This interactive workbook, geared toward creative kids who are nervous or overwhelmed, encourages readers to learn new strategies for self-soothing and build self-awareness through drawing and writing. An engaging resource that will help kids navigate anxiety with imagination.”―Kirkus Reviews

The Big Fat Activity Book for Pregnant People

"Funny as hell (they had me at the constipated kitten coloring page). This book should be at every baby shower.”―Amy Morrison, founder of Pregnant Chicken

"A down-to-earth, hilarious, indispensable companion that will help pregnant people everywhere keep their wits about them while growing a human inside them. I wish I'd had this when I was pregnant, and am almost tempted to get pregnant again so that I can use it (except, no)."―Emily Gould, author of Friendship

"Nothing worked to keep hope alive when I was pregnant. Not Saltines, ginger ale, ratty nausea bands. Definitely not party pics from my slimmer, drunker days. If only I'd had The Big Fat Activity Book for Pregnant People. It's got forty weeks’ worth of distractions, jokes, compassion, and satisfying meanness about America's Military-Radiant-Pregnancy Complex. This book is a public service for all those involved in the hideous miracle of human gestation."―Virginia Heffernan, author of Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art and host of This is Critical

“My new favorite thing! I just had a baby, and I am already looking forward to my next pregnancy when I will most definitely be cuddled up with this book, laughing my way through each page. It is a relatable activity book that is sure to ease any pregnant woman's mind, and I will absolutely be purchasing it for all of my pregnant friends!”―Audrey Scheck, West Coast Digital Director, Us Weekly 

“This book will help you achieve the chill vibes you’d normally get from drinking alcohol, eating soft cheese, or being able to get up off the couch.”―Beth Newell, creator of Reductress, author of How to Win at Feminism

“I’ve tried apps, mediation, exercise, mindfulness, doctors, meds, and more to help my ever-growing beast of anxiety but nothing put it into perspective—or made me laugh more—than Reid and Williams’ smart, sassy, and absolutely genius The Big Activity Book for Anxious People. From anxiety check-ins to coloring to concrete suggestions for soothers that actually really and truly work, just seeing this book on my desk every morning makes me breathe easier. It should be required reading for everyone I know.”―Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author (and anxious person) of Is This Tomorrow and Pictures of You

“We’re big fans of the Reid/Williams duo - and The Big Activity Book for Anxious People is genius.”―Fresh Starts Registry

“Absolutely obsessed… I don’t know how it’s possible for a person to be so funny. [Jordan and Erin] are geniuses.”―Modern Mom Probs

The Big Fat Activity Book for Digital Detox

“Digital Detox is the best throwback since you found that old mixtape you had forgotten about. So make a cup of tea (wine) and pick up this book. The internet will still love you when you return.”―Uli Beutter Cohen, founder and editor of the Subway Book Review

“For years, I’ve averaged 19.5 hours/day on my phone, and my wife has turned to Alexa for tenderness and affection. Then we spent a weekend together with The Big Activity Book for Digital Detox and rediscovered that life can be so much more than clicks, likes, and latent anxiety. This book is the most important purchase you will ever make.”―Brian Platzer, author of The Body Politic

“We could all use a digital detox. This book is perfectly on point, filled with humor and wit.”―Karen Robinovitz, founder of Digital Brand Architects and the Sloomoo Institute

The Big Fat Activity Book for Divorced People

“Being divorced just means you are a bitch who has lived. This delightfully subversive activity book helps people reimagine their happiness. Instead of drunk texting your ex, use this activity book to laugh your way to realizing you were always better off without them. Doing this book made me laugh, cry, rage, and heal just a little bit.”―Lyz Lenz, author of God Land and Belabored

THE BIG JOURNAL FOR PREGNANT PEOPLE

Erin Williams

Hades, Candice Fox’s first novel, won the Ned Kelly Award for best debut in 2014 from the Australian Crime Writers Association. The sequel, Eden, won the Ned Kelly Award for best crime novel in 2015, making Candice only the second author to win these accolades back-to-back. She is also the author of the bestselling Fall, Crimson Lake and Redemption Point, all shortlisted for Ned Kelly and Davitt Awards.

In 2015 Candice began collaborating with James Patterson. Their first novel together, Never Never, set in the vast Australian outback, was a huge bestseller in Australia and went straight to number 1 on the New York Times bestseller list in the US and also to the top of the charts in the UK. Since then they have written Black & Blue, Fifty Fifty, Liar Liar, Hush Hush in the Harriet Blue series. Her books are printed in fifteen languages.

Born in 1985, Candice is the middle child of a large, eccentric family from Sydney’s western suburbs composed of half-, adopted and pseudo siblings. The daughter of an enthusiastic foster-carer, Candice spent her childhood listening around corners to tales of violence, madness and evil from the cops and childcare authorities who frequented her home.

Bankstown born and bred, she failed to conform to military life in a brief stint as an officer in the Royal Australian Navy at age eighteen. At twenty, she turned her hand to academia, and taught high school through two undergraduate and two postgraduate degrees. She is a crafter, animal-lover and wine drinker living in Sydney.

FIRE WITH FIRE

Candice Fox

Andrea Debbink is an editor and writer who specializes in immersive nonfiction storytelling—from historical biographies to contemporary topics like environmental stewardship, natural history, and food science. As a former American Girl magazine editor, she also has a knack for creating fun and whimsical content for young readers like DIYs and crafts, seasonal recipes, and STEM projects. When she's not writing or reading, she's exploring the outdoors with her kayak and camera.

Praise for THE WILD WORLD HANDBOOK: CREATURES

“Hooks readers from the beginning...A treasure trove of animals, familiar as well as not so well-known, and the scientists and activists who help them survive and thrive.”—School Library Journal, starred review

“Animals are always a hot topic for kids, and this STEAM offering for middle-graders is sure to please.”—Booklist

“Filled with history and facts about creatures that are beautifully expressed and explained.”—Beary Into Books

“A wonderful book packed with amazing information!”—The Momma Spot

“A must have for families looking to make a difference in the world...Get ready to be blown away with the awe inspiring illustrations that fill the pages of this environmental stewardship handbook, while gaining practical tools and skills.”—Inspired by Savannah

Praise for THE WILD WORLD HANDBOOK: HABITATS

PureWow Happy Kid Award Winner 2021 for Best 8+ Book

“This gorgeous book features beautifully detailed illustrations, facts, stories and tips on making your own biome and helping to protect the environment.... A practical guide for young climate activists and junior conservationists.”—CNNUnderscored

“Beautifully illustrated….An entertaining and educational book for environmentally conscious nature lovers that will inspire action.”—Booklist

“Well-designed and smartly organized...providing inspiration that proves that all types of people can enjoy and protect nature.”—Kirkus Reviews

“This accessible guide offers a good balance of detailed information with engaging activities and calls to action....A strong choice to inspire young changemakers for our planet.”—School Library Journal

“Hopeful, even as it leaves no stone unturned on the path to mitigating grave ecological issues like climate change, deforestation and overfishing...The result leaves readers — whether middle grade or middle-aged — informed, inspired and, most importantly, empowered.”—Madison Magazine

“For the quieter kid, or perhaps for an Earth-minded child who may need to stay indoors for part of the summer...With more facts, less adventure, this book offers ecology-based biographies, activities to do indoors, fun facts, places to visit, and information about our world.”—Terri Schlichenmeyer

SYLVIE AND THE WOLF

Andrea Debbink

Meera Lee Patel is a self-taught artist raised by the New Jersey shore, where she swam the bright waters and climbed cherry blossom trees until she grew old enough to draw them. Her illustrations are inspired by the magical mysteries of nature, the quiet stories that lace through everyday life, and the bold colors of her native India. In addition to illustration and photography, she produces a line of stationery and textile products that can be found at boutiques and major retailers nationwide, including Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie.

HOW IT FEELS TO FIND  YOURSELF

Meera Lee Patel

Jenny Fran Davis received her MFA from the University of Iowa, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow. The author of a novel for teenagers, Everything Must Go, she lives in Brooklyn.

“Dykette turned me on and freaked me out in the best possible way! Imagine if Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? were recast with two generations of very-online queer folks. Tense, smart, and thrilling . . . with a charismatic pug named Vivienne to boot.”
 —CJ Hauser, author of The Crane Wife

“A consummate pleasure. I gasped with laughter and delight on nearly every page.” — Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood

“A blast of defiant frivolity, Dykette is so perceptive it hurts and as fun and decadent as wearing Gaultier in a bubble bath.”— Beth Morgan, author of A Touch of Jen

“An invigorating and hilarious examination of queer identity and intimacy...The only thing more horrifying than perceiving one’s self is being perceived by others, and Jenny Fran Davis explores both actions with an audacious and tender wit.”—Bobby Finger, author of The Old Place

“Dykette is my favorite kind of trouble—sexy, messy, full of gossip and glitter, and cunning, and thus of course profoundly revealing about our strange times.” — Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

“Like a tightly rolled spliff passed round the room, you will inhale Dykette.” — Samantha Hunt, author of The Unwritten Book

DYKETTE

Jenny Fran Davis

The New York Times Book Review featured Melissa L. Sevigny’s BRAVE THE WILD RIVER: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon (Norton). Reviewer Deborah Blum said: “[A] cascade of a story, colored by sun and water and driven by courage and determination.”

New York Times Reviews BRAVE THE WILD RIVER

Vogue interviews Jenny Fran Davis on her newly published novel, Dykette.

Vogue Interviews Jenny Fran Davis

Vanity Fair interviews Jenny Fran Davis on her new novel DYKETTE.

"Davis’s new novel reads like a taxonomy of queer theory, references, and history, while offering up wholly new words and takes on contemporary lesbian life."- Svetlana Kitto, Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair Interviews Jenny Fran Davis

Dr. Thema Bryant appears on CBS Mornings on an expert panel to discuss finding mental health care, healing trauma, and supporting the mental health of teens for "Wellness Week" during Mental Health Awareness Month.

Dr. Thema Bryant Joins CBS Mornings on an Expert Panel

Kirkus Reviews named Ralph White’s GETTING OUT OF SAIGON (Simon & Schuster) one of the “10 Most Addictive Books of 2023 (So Far).” In its starred review, Kirkus said: "White tells his inspiring story with wit, panache, humility, and a captivating sense of time and place. A fantastic read."

Kirkus Names GETTING OUT OF SAIGON to “10 Most Addictive"

Christian Science Monitor named its 10 Best Books of April and included Ralph White’s GETTING OUT OF SAIGON (Simon & Schuster). They said: “His well-documented, true story offers a gripping play-by-play about the choice to do what’s right instead of what’s authorized.”

Christian Science Monitor Selects GETTING OUT OF SAIGON as a Best Book of April

"That's the story that we're telling within White House Clubhouse: of all the great dreamers who decided to dare greatly."  

Former White House speechwriter Sean O'Brien discusses his debut middle grade series. In WHITE HOUSE CLUBHOUSE, First Daughters Marissa and Clara discover a hidden tunnel that leads to an underground clubhouse full of antique curiosities, with doors heading in all directions—and a mysterious document addressed to them for their signatures. Upon signing, the girls find themselves transported back to 1903, to Teddy Roosevelt's White House. Marissa and Clara, along with Roosevelt's irrepressible children, are swept up on a cross-country railroad adventure to save California's redwoods from destruction.

Norton Young Readers Presents the Book Trailer for WHITE HOUSE CLUBHOUSE by Sean O'Brien

From the imagination of a former White House speechwriter—and his own kids—comes an inside look at White House administrations throughout history through the eyes of its youngest residents.

Publishers Weekly Explores Sean O'Brien's Forthcoming Middle-grade Series, WHITE HOUSE CLUBHOUSE

Oprah Daily selected ten books to consider giving a grieving friend, including Mary-Frances O’Connor PhD’s THE GRIEVING BRAIN: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss (HarperOne). About the book, they say: "For those who want to understand what’s happening to them and why grief is so confounding, this is a fascinating and comforting read."

Oprah Daily names THE GRIEVING BRAIN a "Best Book to Comfort a Grieving Friend”

Booklist bestows a star on Melissa Sevigny’s BRAVE THE WILD RIVER: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon (Norton): “A spellbinding writer of informed and ardent attentiveness, wit, and empathy, Sevigny splendidly conveys the dramatic beauty of this unique riverscape and casts light on the Indigenous people who cultivated plants in the canyonlands for millennia before being forced off the land… A breath-catching, enlightening, and significant work of scientific, environmental, and women's history.” 

A Booklist Starred Review for BRAVE THE WILD RIVER

Writing for the Washington Post, Mark Atwood Lawrence said of GETTING OUT OF SAIGON: How a 27-Year-Old American Banker Saved 113 Vietnamese Civilians (Simon & Schuster): “Ralph White’s captivating memoir shows that fresh revelations [about America’s war in Vietnam] are still possible… White is at his storytelling best when recounting his frenetic shuttling between the U.S. Embassy, the Saigon airport, hotel cafes and seedy bars in search of clear-eyed American officials who might help. This ‘pinball odyssey’ includes wary encounters with a Viet Cong operative, a run-in with South Vietnamese police and a chaste infatuation with a teenage Vietnamese prostitute, a cast of characters reminiscent of The Quiet American, Graham Greene’s classic 1955 novel of wartime Saigon.”

The Washington Post Praises GETTING OUT OF SAIGON

Kathryn Judge’s DIRECT: The Rise of the Middleman Economy and the Power of Going to the Source (HarperBusiness) has been named a Gold Medalist for the 2023 Axiom Awards in the Business Theory category. According to Axiom: "The Axiom Business Book Awards are intended to bring increased recognition to exemplary business books and their creators. The awards were created in 2007, and have since become the largest and most respected critical guidepost for business books in today's new world of publishing. These prestigious and competitive awards are presented in 25 business categories and serve as the premier list to help readers discover new and innovative works."

DIRECT is a Gold Medalist for the 2023 Axiom Awards

"An edge-of-your-seat, too-insane-not-to-be-true story,” says Oprah Daily about Ralph White’s GETTING OUT OF SAIGON (Simon & Schuster). 

Oprah Daily Raves about GETTING OUT OF SAIGON

Booklist writes a glowing review of Dykette. 

The review will appear in the April 15, 2023, issue of Booklist, scheduled to mail and go live online, on April 13.

"An engagingly self-aware and entertainingly claustrophobic story of performance and realness."- Booklist

Booklist Loves DYKETTE!

Anybody Here Seen Frenchie?, written by Leslie Connor, is a 2023 Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts Award book.

ANYBODY HERE SEEN FRENCHIE? is on the 2023 Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts
Award List!

I'M NOT BROKEN by Jesse Leon is a 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. I'M NOT BROKEN is also on 2022 NPR's Books We Love and 2022 Best of San Francisco Chronicle. It won the 2022 San Diego Writers Festival Memoir Writer of the Year Award. 

I'M NOT BROKEN is a Lambda Literary Award Finalist!

"Decades after they escape from a church-supported conversion therapy program, two old friends reunite as adults and come to terms with their shared trauma."

TELL THE REST by Lucy Jane Bledsoe Is Featured in The New York Times Book Review's "New This Week" Column

Nearly 50 years after Lucy Jane Bledsoe helped convince Portland leaders to create the first girls’ basketball league in Oregon, she returned to Ida B. Wells High, her alma mater, to mark Women’s History Month and discuss her new YA novel, NO STOPPING US NOW.

KGWTV Interviews Lucy Jane Bledsoe About Title IX and Her Novel NO STOPPING US NOW

Cal Newport, author of A World without Email (Portfolio) and six other books” was profiled in a Financial Times Magazine piece by Courtney Weaver called, “How Cal Newport Rewrote the Productivity Gospel.” "Newport, a preternaturally upbeat millennial with a penchant for dad jokes, is an unlikely messenger.… But the quiet radicalism in Newport’s books on productivity and his coping strategies for 21st-century knowledge workers have helped him sell more than two million copies in 39 languages, making him a celebrity in the field." 

FT Magazine Profile of Cal Newport

Kirkus Reviews gives Dykette a glowing review.

"In her first novel for adults, Davis explores what happens when people are isolated physically while remaining very much online."- Kirkus Reviews

"A view of contemporary queer life presented by a spectacularly unreliable narrator."- Kirkus Reviews

Kirkus Gives DYKETTE A Glowing Review!

Dykette makes Autostraddle's queer and feminist books list for the spring of 2023. 

Autostraddle Recommends DYKETTE to Read This Spring

Library Journal has given Ralph White’s GETTING OUT OF SAIGON: How a 27-Year-Old Banker Saved 113 Vietnamese Civilians (Simon & Schuster) a starred review, saying: "This enthralling story is highly recommended for readers specifically interested in the fall of Saigon or in memoirs generally.”

Library Journal Gives GETTING OUT OF SAIGON a Star

Publishers Weekly has given Melissa L. Sevigny’s BRAVE THE WILD RIVER: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon (W.W. Norton) a starred review, saying: “Marvelous… as propulsive as the current of the Colorado. Readers will be swept away.”

PW Gives BRAVE THE WILD RIVER a Star

Kirkus Reviews has given Melissa L. Sevigny's BRAVE THE WILD RIVER: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon (W.W. Norton) a starred review, calling the book: "A beautiful tribute to two pioneering women of science.”

Kirkus Gives BRAVE THE WILD RIVER a Star

"I have long believed that art and sports are two sides of one coin. What poetry and basketball share is a way of parsing the world, of comprehending and shrinking its problems to a manageable size—a poem or a court. They allow the practitioner to make religion out of a passion or a pastime. With Tell the Rest, Bledsoe succeeds in giving life to my conviction on this point, focusing not on the art or the game itself (except in small doses) but rather on their ability to save, redeem, and uplift, to help us construct or reconstruct our faith."

Alta Journal Reviews TELL THE REST by Lucy Jane Bledsoe

In a feature with Shelf Awareness, Lucy Jane Bledsoe talks about her new novel, TELL THE REST, as well as the books that have shaped her life and writing.

Shelf Awareness interviews novelist Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Locus gives a glowing review of Karma Of The Sun by Brandon Ying-Kit Boey.

“A not-to-miss debut from a ridiculously talented newcomer”-Locus

Locus Is a Fan of KARMA OF THE SUN by Brandon Ying-Kit Boey

Bust magazine loves Dykette! Check out their review of Dykette in the newest issue of Bust.

"Dykette is a riveting and often darkly funny novel that accurately examines New York queer culture with an insider's authenticity."- Bust

BUST Magazine Recommends DYKETTE

The New York Post lists Stars In An Italian Sky as one of the best new books to read. 

The New York Post Says STARS IN AN ITALIAN SKY is One of This Week's Best New Books!

Stars In An Italian Sky by Jill Santopolo is recommended by USA Today as one of the best new books to read this week. 

USA Today Names STARS IN AN ITALIAN SKY "One of the Hottest New Book Releases"

Amazon Studio has picked up the rights to Daring to Live produced by DeVon Franklin's (“Breakthrough”) Franklin Entertainment. Previously set up at Paramount Players, the project is now in development at Amazon Studios.

The film is inspired by Sheri Hunter’s 2020 memoir Daring to Live: How the Power of Sisterhood and Taking Risks Can Jump-Start Your Joy. It follows Hunter’s journey of “embracing life anew” after the sudden loss of her husband, thanks to the support of her group of friends —collectively known as the “Dare Divas” — who encourage her to step outside her comfort zone.

Amazon Studios Picks Up Sheri Hunter's DARING TO LIVE, Produced by DeVon Franklin

Pretend It's My Body by Luke Dani Blue is longlisted for the Story Prize for story collections published in 2022. 

Luke Dani Blue's PRETEND IT'S MY BODY is Longlisted for the Story Prize!

Publishers Weekly gives The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher a starred review. 

“A young Palestinian American woman explores her identity in Cypher’s lush debut. It makes for a captivating stream of consciousness: 'You were not a linear person, preferring to stuff your discomforts and difficulties inside eddies and convolutions.' With beautiful writing and evocative themes, this author makes a notable entrance.”- Publishers Weekly 

THE SKIN AND ITS GIRL Receives a Publishers Weekly Starred Review!

Reading the West has nominated Michael P. Branch’s ON THE TRAIL OF THE JACKALOPE: How a Legend Captured the World’s Imagination and Helped Us Cure Cancer (Pegasus Books) for its 33rd Annual Reading the West Book Awards in the nonfiction category. Reading the West seeks to "celebrate the diversity, courage, tenacity, expertise, and indie spirit of the bookstores in the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association.” Independent booksellers in the region will next determine the shortlist.

ON THE TRAIL OF THE JACKALOPE Is Longlisted for the Reading the West Book Award

How to Deceive a Duke by Samara Parish is on the New York Public Library List of Best New Romances for Adults. 

HOW TO DECEIVE A DUKE is on the New York Public Library List of Best New Romances for Adults!

Kirkus Reviews Gives Stars in an Italian Sky by Jill Santopolo a heart-warming review. 

"A romantic, sweeping story that’s satisfying and heartbreaking at the same time."- Kirkus Reviews 

Kirkus Reviews Gives STARS IN AN ITALIAN SKY by Jill Santopolo a Glowing Review!

Science Friday has selected Mary-Frances O’Connor’s THE GRIEVING BRAIN: The Surprising Science of How we Learn from Love and Loss (HarperOne) as their March Book Club pick. Join the SciFri Book Club to read about and discuss the neuroscience of grief throughout the month of March. 

THE GRIEVING BRAIN Is a SciFri Book Club Pick

The Children's Book Committee named RED HOUSE, BROWN MOUSE one of the best board books of 2023. The mission of the Bank Street College Center for Children's Literature is to create, identify, and advocate for the highest quality literature for all children from infancy through adolescence. One of the components of the Center is the Children’s Book Committee. They create a list of the very best board books for ages zero to four that were published in 2021 and 2022.

The Children's Book Committee Names RED HOUSE, BROWN MOUSE One of the Best Board Books of 2023!

Jill Schlesinger Discusses Her New Book The Great Money Reset on CBS Mornings. She provides advice on understanding your personal finances and what you need to change to change your life. 

Jill Schlesinger Discusses Her New Book THE GREAT MONEY RESET on CBS Mornings

Jill Schlesinger discusses her new book THE GREAT MONEY RESET on WBUR with Robin Young. 

Jill Schlesinger Speaks with Robin Young on NPR Member Station WBUR Hear & Now

Buzzfeed lists Ana María and the Fox by Liana De la Rosa as one of 33 romance books to look out for in 2023.  

Buzzfeed Wants You To Look Out For ANA MARIA AND THE FOX by Liana De la Rosa

Lucy Jane Bledsoe's No Stopping Us Now will be honored this year on the Rise 2023 Booklist by Rise: A Feminist Book Project in the young adult fiction category. 

NO STOPPING US NOW is a 2023 Rise Honoree!

Moon's Ramadan by Natasha Khan Kazi receives a starred review from The School Library Journal. 

"A delightful read that teaches students about Ramadan and emphasizes the diversity in the Islamic world. This book will definitely be a go-to for librarians and teachers who want to expand awareness of Ramadan."- Peggy Henderson Murphy, The School Library Journal

The School Library Journal Gives MOON'S RAMADAN by Natasha Khan Kazi a Starred Review!

YALSA names Frizzy written by Claribel A. Ortega and illustrated by Rose Bousamra a YALSA top ten title on the Great Graphic Novels for Teens list. Great Graphic Novels for Teens is a list of recommended graphic novels and illustrated nonfiction for those ages 12-18, prepared yearly by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA).

FRIZZY is a Top Ten YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens!

Frizzy written by Claribel A. Ortega and illustrated by Rose Bousamra wins the 2023 Pura Belpré Children’s Author Award.

FRIZZY wins the 2023 Pura Belpré Children’s Author Award!

Staff writer David Marchese of the New York Times Magazine interviewed Cal Newport about digital tools and our work lives in “The Digital Workplace Is Designed to Bring You Down.” 

Cal Newport in the New York Times Magazine

The Wall Street Journal reviews KARMA OF THE SUN by Brandon Ying Kit Boey. 

“Boey’s exploration of human values and philosophical conundrums—including the difficulty of finding hope and purpose in the face of the end of everything—is no sophomoric thought experiment, and his stark world is poetically rendered. A thoughtful read perfect for this moody season.”

The Wall Street Journal Reviews KARMA OF THE SUN by Brandon Ying Kit Boey

Literary Hub reveals the cover for Shannon Sanders’ debut story collection, Company, which Graywolf Press calls “a richly detailed, brilliantly woven collection about the lives and lore of one Black family.”

Lit Hub's Exclusive Cover Reveal of COMPANY by Shannon Sanders

The New York Times recommends reading BEAVERLAND this week. 

The New York Times Recommends BEAVERLAND!

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with environmental journalist Leila Philip about her new book, Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America. Martin says he could "not put it down."

"I loved that the beaver's kind of a little jerk."- NPR, Michel Martin

NPR Interviews Leila Philip, Author of BEAVERLAND

"...in an unexpected bonus, they harass New Yorkers who escaped the city to move upstate during the pandemic and enrage recreational snowmobilers in New Hampshire."- The New York Post, Susannah Cahalan

The New York Post Explains Why Beavers Are Cool and Urges You to Buy BEAVERLAND

Leila Philip, author of Beaverland, writes an opinion piece on how the role of beavers in the ecosystem aids in fighting the coming wildfires and fighting climate change.  

"Beavers are one of the greatest conservation comeback stories of the 20th century. They were almost wiped out during the fur trade, but smart wildlife reintroduction programs in the early 1900s returned them to the landscape. Now beavers have a new role to play in creating climate resiliency if communities, municipalities, and individual landowners can take advantage of what they naturally do."- Leila Philip, Boston Globe

Leila Philip, author of BEAVERLAND, Educates and Inspires in an Op-Ed Piece in the Boston Globe

The Millions lists Dykette as one of the best and most anticipated books in the first half of 2023.

“Like a tightly rolled spliff passed around the room,” Samantha Hunt writes, “you will inhale Dykette.” 

"Following three queer couples on a 10-day country getaway, Dykette takes on desire, debauchery, and destruction through a distinctly queer—and propulsively entertaining—lens." —SMS

The Millions Can't Wait for DYKETTE!

The New York Times gives Beaverland a heartwarming and charming review. 

"[It] offers an appreciative account of the North American rodent, whose habit of taking down trees and causing floods has given it a reputation as a nuisance."- Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times

The New York Times Loves BEAVERLAND!

Dykette is listed as one of the buzziest debut novels in 2023 on Goodreads. 

Goodreads Names DYKETTE One of the Buzziest Debut Novels of the New Year

Dykette is #14 on Buzzfeed's list of Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books in 2023.

"Davis shrewdly explores issues of gender and sexuality while her characters confront the idea of what it means to seek the life you truly want."- David Vogel, Buzzfeed Contributor

DYKETTE is One of Buzzfeed's Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books of 2023

Kirkus Reviews has bestowed a star upon Ralph White’s debut memoir GETTING OUT OF SAIGON: "A unique, gripping story from the Vietnam War....White's persona seems like something out of a Terry Southern or Ian Fleming novel—as does his writing. White tells his inspiring story with wit, panache, humility, and a captivating sense of time and place. A fantastic read.”

A Starred Kirkus Review for GETTING OUT OF SAIGON

The Next Big Idea Club ranked Mary-Frances O’Connor, PhD’s THE GRIEVING BRAIN: The Surprising Science of How Our Brain’s Learn from Love and Loss (HarperOne) as the 3rd best science book of 2022.

THE GRIEVING BRAIN is a Next Big Idea Club Top Science Book

Shaun Gallagher’s EXPERIMENTING WITH BABIES (TarcherPerigee) is Oprah Daily’s pick for Best Book Gift for new moms. "New moms spend a lot of their time with their bundle of joy (because, duh). This book will make that cutie pie even more fun.”

Oprah Daily Recommends EXPERIMENTING WITH BABIES

Good Morning America interviews Audrey Elledge and Elizabeth Moore about their new book, LITURGIES FOR HOPE. 

"Two friends join forces to share powerful prayers in new book"- Good Morning America

Good Morning America Interviews Audrey Elledge and Elizabeth Moore, authors of LITURGIES FOR HOPE

The audiobook of LITURGIES FOR HOPE received a starred review from Booklist.

"Prayers are softly spoken by the writers with sensitivity, purity, and an understanding of the power and word of God. Listeners will perceive their abiding faith and relate to each prayer’s depth of honesty, relevance, wisdom, and truth."- Booklist 