Friends, welcome to another exciting issue of The Pond Book News! Twice a month, The Quiet Pond brings you a fresh issue of book news to catch you up on the week’s lineup of diverse cover reveals, book news, and sometimes more! Now, onwards to the brilliant books!
Cover Reveal: Direwood by Catherine Yu
🖤 COVER REVEAL 🖤
DIREWOOD is a YA gothic horror featuring moody vampires besetting a '90s small town. Also present: complicated friendships and sister dynamics, a ruined church, and plenty of body horror. 🩸✨
Illustration: TBA | Design: TBA | Add this book to Goodreads!
Cover Reveal: A Necessary Chaos by Brent C. Lambert
Cover Reveal!
In A NECESSARY CHAOS by @BrentCLambert, Althus and Vade were assigned to spy on each other by opposing sides. But what happens when they both catch feelings? Fall 2022 from @neonhemlock.
Book Announcement: Christina Li’s forthcoming queer YA coming-of-age about a girl who designs an algorithm for romance
ANNOUNCING MY YA DEBUT!!!
It’s all about love in all forms, algorithms, & the space between the last year of high school and the first year of college. It’s the queer coming of age book of my heart. I’m so excited to share it with you. 💗✨ pic.twitter.com/kMMpinBgwX
Book Announcement: Queer cyberpunk YA City of Shattered Light by Claire Winn gets a sequel
It's official: 🎉😭 we're renewed for season 2!
City of Shattered Light's sequel, CITY OF VICIOUS NIGHT, is coming May 2023!
I've dreamed of this book since drafting CoSL. It has even more of your badass queer-found-fam smuggler squad, & continues that epilogue thread…🏳️🌈✨ pic.twitter.com/pnmWYwrbsX
— Claire Winn ⚡️ has another book coming out! (@Atomic_Pixie) March 17, 2022
Book Announcement: A queer YA featuring a femme gay kid looking for a date to glamorous ball by Jason June
Y’ALL!! I’m so excited to finally be able to share Long Title Femme Gay YA!! Next year, you’ll get to meet femme and fabulous podcaster extraordinaire, Riley, in RILEY WEAVER NEEDS A DATE TO THE GAYBUTANTE BALL!! 💅🏼 pic.twitter.com/NUHJwa2IQz
— Jason June says Preorder OUT OF THE BLUE 🧜♂️🌈 (@HeyJasonJune) March 15, 2022
Book Announcement: A YA fairytale in verse by R. M. Romero, featuring swan girls, soft artist boys, and magical curses
So excited about this latest @peachtreeteen acquisition! A WARNING ABOUT SWANS is a Bavarian fairy tale about headstrong girls, dangerous boys, and soff artist types who see into your soul.
Book Announcement: A queer YA gothic mystery by Alex Crespo set in a haunted mansion, featuring a mysterious Mexican-American teen, a witch team, and a golden boy
IT’S HAPPENING! I’m thrilled to share that my queer gothic YA debut is coming your way summer 2023! 🌲✨🔮 pic.twitter.com/Z2mxUzA3nS
Book Announcement: A queer Latinx YA romcom about family rivalries and winter vacations by Elle Gonzalez Rose
✨ DREAMS DO COME TRUE ✨
Still can't believe I get to say this, but my debut queer Latine fake dating + enemies to lovers YA romcom is being published by @JoyRevBooks in 2023! I can't wait for the world to meet Devin, Julian, and the rest of the Báez and Seo-Cooke families 💖 pic.twitter.com/iM005XukTA
Book Announcement: Adi Alsaid’s foray into middle-grade fantasy featuring an evil wizard, a cursed gumball machine, and a kingdom in peril
Congrats @AdiAlsaid! THE GREATEST LIVING WARRIOR IN NEFARIA sold to Aladdin. It's a wryly funny, hugely inventive MG series about a kingdom full of dastardly schemes & a quiet, shy boy who stumbles into the middle of one by way of a cursed gumball machine and must stop it! https://t.co/wJxrZlHwqjpic.twitter.com/sQjRvcR1xc
Book Announcement: A middle-grade Desi retelling of Hansel and Gretel by Emi Pinto about an Indian girl, a white neighbourhood, and a strange house
I can't believe I get to write this post this is a dream come true 😭!! I'm beyond excited that Bee has found a home with @KTegenBooks@SaraSchon !! Hope you're ready for a little horror with heart 💀💗 pic.twitter.com/wlbYLm5Rmx
Book Announcement: A middle-grade historical novel in verse about family and change by Thushanthi Ponweera set in 1990s Sri Lanka amidst a civil war
The news is out! Huge thanks to Mora Couch @HolidayHouseBks for her unbridled enthusiasm, and @Jacqui_Lipton for making this happen! So many more to thank, I hope you know who you are ❤️
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