And the influencer box for L.C. Chu's LIBRARY OF FLOWERS has us swooning! There's perfume in there!

We get the best #bookmail: check out the preorder swag for Laura Piper Lee's POT SHOT!

My book, THE BEAT OF THE DRAGON BOAT, is featured on Forest of Reading’s YouTube channel! 🐉

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Next #firstline is a bit different, but still yummy: the first lines of the revised & expanded 4th edition of HAMBURGER AMERICA by George Motz!

Happy #firstlinesfriday! This week we have TWO options for you: first up, the first lines from REVIVE ME: PART ONE by @jlseegars.bsky.social!

Congrats to @candacebuford.bsky.social! RIVAL HIGH: AVERY'S STORY is a @jrlibraryguild.bsky.social selection!!

DEAL ALERT! Congrats to @jlseegars.bsky.social! THE ILLUSION OF POWER and A TASTE OF SIN will be published by Bloom Books!

This Puerto Rican author is writing books for preteen fans of mythology Victor Piñeiro’s latest middle grade book is where Taíno mythology meets the modern diaspora experience.

Finally, a book that dares ask “What if Percy Jackson was Puerto Rican?” I spoke with “The Island of Forgotten Gods” author @victorpineiro.bsky.social about representation, Hurricane Maria PTSD and why Boricuas don’t know our own Taíno mythology for @ctpublic.bsky.social:

Even when they’re based on us, writing characters is a craft. I’m teaching a course on writing semi-autobiographical characters & how to create distance while also nourishing a deeply rooted connection. May 24, to register: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/writ...

"I recently read APPARENTLY, SIR CAMERON NEEDS TO DIE. The book I didn't know I needed: raucous, funny, and rauchy, with some of the wildest twists I've encountered in a while. Enjoy the chapter headings!" - Jen Udden

Jen Udden is into this raucous, humorous fantasy!

"I read A DROP OF CORRUPTION by Robert Jackson Bennett. I'm in my genre crossover era! This mystery-fantasy was so perfectly layered and the characters were so incredibly charming. I couldn't put it down!" - Katie Gisondi

Katie Gisondi is in her genre crossover era!

"I'm currently reading THIS IS NOT ABOUT US by Allegra Godman. I'm taking a lot of comfort in this multigenerational Jewish family tale--specific and universal in all the right ways." --Elana Parker

Elana Parker is loving this multigenerational Jewish family tale by Allegra Goodman!

"I recently read Kate Bromley's IN MY TUDOR ERA and it was such a joy - transportive, fun, and totally swoonworthy!" - Carrie pestritto

Carrie Pestritto is in a Tudor swoon :D

The background is a picture of an open book next to a window covered in gauzy curtains. The text reads: "I just read Ian McEwan's absolutely masterful and endlessly layered WHAT WE CAN KNOW. So good, so insightful and provocative, and such perfect, effortless writing, I was marveling through the whole brilliant book.

Our fearless leader Laura is into Ian McEwan's latest!

A picture of a sunlit room, with a window looking out onto green trees. There is a bookshelf on one side and a bean bag on the floor. The text reads: "What we're reading now, Spring 2026." the Laura Dail logo is at the bottom in white.

Spring has sprung! (At least according to the calendar.) Here's what the agents at @ldlainc.bsky.social are reading these days! A 🧵

Will you be in New York on 4/14? Do you love burgers? Don't miss out on the chance to get burger scholar George Motz to sign a copy of the 4th edition of HAMBURGER AMERICA!

Congrats to Catherine Adel West!! STRANGERS BEHIND CLOSED DOORS got a starred review from Kirkus!!

CONGRATS to Marie Benedict, whose new novel DAUGHTER OF EGYPT is an instant @usatoday.com bestseller!!!

Check it out! @anthonytardiff.bsky.social's debut THE FINAL SYSTEM is an Amazon First Reads pick! That means you can read it for free this month before it pubs May 1!!

Happy pub day to Felicia Kingsley and NO PLACE TO BE SINGLE! Don't miss this "witty, evocative" novel set in Italian wine country - it rocketed to the top of the bestseller lists in Italy and is soon to be a movie on Prime!

Deal Alert!!! Congrats @anthonytardiff.bsky.social!!

Day 2 of the B&N Preorder Sale! Don't miss out - use PREORDER25 to save 25% on preorders!

That's awesome! I just started No Way Never Sisters, and am already looking forward to another collaboration from Natalia Sylvester and Chantel Acevedo. 🙌

It's B&N Preorder Sale season! Premium & Members get 25% off preorders, online only. Here's a link to the LDLA titles pubbing this year available for preorder with code PREORDER25!
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HAPPY PUB DAY to Marie Benedict and DAUGHTER OF EGYPT!! Don't miss out on this lush historical novel!

Simu Liu & Phillipa Soo Choose the Audiobooks They’d Keep for Life YouTube video by Audible

Ever wonder what audiobooks JUST KISS ALREADY narrators Simu Liu and Phillipa Soo would want on a desert island? www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcuC...

Editors Reveal: Our dopamine listens Walk on sunshine with our go-to recs for harnessing happiness.

POT SHOT by Laura Piper Lee and JUST KISS ALREADY are on this list of Dopamine Listens from the editors at Audible! www.audible.com/blog/editors...

Deal Alert!! Congrats @kalynjosephson.bsky.social!! A DRAGONSLAYER'S GUIDE TO LOVE, VALOR, AND OTHER MYTHS will be published by Roaring Brook Press!!

Congratulations, Lily Chu! THE VACATION SHIFT is a @jrlibraryguild.bsky.social Gold Standard Selection!

Your favorite romcom is going to be a movie! NO PLACE TO BE SINGLE hits screens on May 8th!