Welcome to Week Fifteen of Sweet Talk with the Sweet Sixteens! To see more details about Sweet Talk as well as previous posts, see the introduction post. Thanks to Charlene (Bookish Whimsy), for designing the banner and button for Sweet Talk.
Today, I'm featuring the authors and books publishing during the week of April 12th!
The Questions:
1. Describe your debut novel in sixteen words.
2. Pitch your book! For fans of _____, _____ meets _____, etc.
3. What are you working on now – is it related to your debut novel?
The Authors:
Brooks Benjamin, Author of My Seventh-Grade Life in Tights
1. Dillon is torn: will he stick with his dance crew or go for the dance scholarship?
2. For fans of the STEP UP movies, DRAMA, SYTYCD, or the BETTER NATE THAN EVER series
3. I've finished a second MG and my first YA and am currently working on another MG about a small town, tarot cards, and an underground club.
Find My Seventh-Grade Life in Tights: Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes and Noble | The Book Depository
Shari Schwarz, Author of Treasure at Lure Lake
1. On a backpacking trip, two brothers must work together to survive and unearth a family secret.
2. For fans of survival adventure stories with a multigenerational twist. HATCHET meets IF I STAY.
3. I've written two other unrelated books and am now delving into the exciting world of picture books.
Samantha Mabry, Author of A Fierce and Subtle Poison
1. a girl full of poison, mosquitoes, hurricanes, an old house in San Juan, a dead nun
2. A Fierce and Subtle Poison is a re-imagining of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Rappaccini's Daughter," set in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
3. I'm working on a YA novel about love and death in the West Texas desert. It is a standalone, like A Fierce and Subtle Poison.
Meghan Rogers, Author of Crossing the Line
1. Jocelyn must work with her enemies for revenge against the North Korean spy agency that kidnapped her.
2. A teen version of Alias and the Bourne movies.
3. My next book is related to my debut! It's book 2 in the Raven Files series.
Laura Shovan, Author of The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary
1. A class of fifth grade poets stage a protest to save their school from demolition.
2. For fans of LOVE THAT DOG and GOOD MASTERS, SWEET LADIES.
3. Another contemporary middle grade novel.
Find The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary: Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes and Noble | The Book Depository
The Books:
(Click on the covers to go to Goodreads!)
Other Sweet Sixteens Books Publishing This Week:
(Click on the covers to go to Goodreads!)
The Giveaway:
- Signed hardcover of The Last Great Adventure of the PB&J Society
- ARC of Don't Get Caught
- Dig Too Deep swag
- Future Shock swag
- South of Sunshine swag
- My Kind of Crazy swag
- Fear My Mortality swag
- Finished copy of Xander and the Lost Island of Monsters
- Tell Me Three Things swag
- My Seventh-Grade Life in Tights swag
- Finished copy of Treasure at Lure Lake
- Crossing the Line swag
- The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary swag
- Finished copy of Consider
- Emerge swag
- ARC of The Art of Not Breathing
I am looking forward to Dreamology
ReplyDeleteThanks for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteWow so many of these look great. Dreamology, My Seventh-Grade Life in Tights, and A Fierce and Subtle Poison. Great post! :D
ReplyDeleteA Fierce and Subtle Poison would be my pick of these. Samantha Mabry is a new author for me. I had to look up what "Rappaccini's Daughter" was about.
ReplyDeleteWow, A Fierce and Subtle Poison sounds interesting!
ReplyDeleteWow, A Fierce and Subtle Poison sounds interesting!
ReplyDeleteA Fierce and Subtle Poison is one that I'm very much looking forward to.
ReplyDeleteTreasure at Lure Lake.
ReplyDeleteAgain, so many books! I've been really curious about Dreamology, so that will probably be the first one I pick up from this batch of books. The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary looks good, too. :)
ReplyDeleteI've got A Fierce and Subtle Poison already on it's on to me!
ReplyDeleteA fierce and subtle poison has been getting a lot of buzz, so I want to read it and see what all the fuss was about. ;)
ReplyDeleteA Fierce & Subtle Poison looks great and love that cover!
ReplyDeleteI love how you do this each week and I love getting to know new authors a bit more :D Unsure about these books.. but they do seem a bit interesting even so :D Thank you for sharing Alyssa. <3
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