Friday Reads 6.7.24

It’s Friday, and you know what that means. Grab a cuppa (or two), and let’s talk about what we’re reading!

Howdy! Happy first Friday of JUNE (I know. This is a terrifying prospect. June? When did that happen???) I want to start with a huge welcome to the new subscribers this month! Thank you for joining the party!

I did a huge wrap-up post for Thrillerfest this past weekend and realized…I need to use that for my monthly newsletter because I’ve got nothing else to talk about otherwise, so I’m going to jump ahead with this: It was a total blast, and I am glad to be home. I got some writing done, and cooked up a few cool ideas, and now I’m faced with the fact that I am officially on deadline. I have a lot of work on my plate right now, primarily on this new book, and on Jayne, and some backlist titles, and of course, PR for A Very Bad Thing, so…yeah. I’m going to be absenting myself from the socials for a while. Too much going on!

ROSEMARY’S BABY arrived Tuesday afternoon and I was done on Wednesday. And I don’t mean I finished the book. I got halfway through, had epically terrible nightmares, and got rid of the damn thing. My goodness. I am just not a good horror reader. I burned sage in my office and am being very careful this week. I hate tapping into that sort of fear. It really rocks me. My nightmares are more night terrors and there’s nothing worse.

In much nicer (and less nightmarish) reading… I snagged a galley of Sarah Pearse’s THE WILDS - holy cow, people. The dread builds until you’re literally biting your nails and looking over your shoulder. This is the kind of fear I can handle.

And I’m cruising toward the end of the Holly Black book THE STOLEN HEIR, which is such a great distraction. Her world-building is stupendous and one of my favorites to escape into. The great news is there’s another waiting in the wings!

It’s book birthday week for FOLLOW HER DOWN from Victoria Helen Stone! We didn’t get a chance to connect as long as I would have liked in NYC this weekend, but we at least got to hug hi and bye. I can’t wait to read this, though!

Also, fellow Nashville writer Erica Ivy Rodgers has a unique fantasy that dropped this week, LADY OF STEEL AND STRAW.

I read a superb essay from about the business of publishing—and why you, as a writer, have no excuse not to learn everything you can about your industry.

And I did an interview that hit both sides of my writer brain—thriller and fantasy.

That’s it from me. How about you? How has it been going? I'd love to hear what you're reading this weekend! Any recommendations?

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