



Agency News
If you missed the first Goodreads Giveaway for Daphne Fama’s HOUSE OF MONSTROUS WOMEN, you’re in luck! Enter now (if you dare)! 👀
Enter the giveaway (if you dare)!–> https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/410708-house-of-monstrous-women
Preorder your copy here!–> https://bookshop.org/p/books/house-of-monstrous-women-daphne-fama/059b370894a71262
Happy Book Birthday to Ai Jiang’s A PALACE NEAR THE WIND! 🥳💙
🚨 Have you signed up for the agent one-on-one bootcamp with Writer’s Digest yet?! 🚨
What’s included:
–> a webinar on submission materials
–> a 2 hour live Q&A
–> a review of your query letter, one-page synopsis, and first 10 pages of your manuscript
We hope to see you there!
Sign up here!–> https://writersdigestuniversity.mykajabi.com/how-to-craft-query-letters-other-submission-materials
THE PAYBACK GIRLS by Alex Travis got a shoutout on the Hey YA podcast for April’s Best YA New Releases! 💗
Listen to the podcast here!–> https://bookriot.com/listen/april-2025-best-ya-new-releases/
Get your copy of THE PAYBACK GIRLS here!–> https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-payback-girls-alex-travis/21575763?ean=9781464217715&next=t
Audrey Lee’s THE MECHANICS OF MEMORY is NPR’s Book of the Day! 🎉
Read the full article here!–> https://www.npr.org/2025/04/11/1244093060/nprs-book-of-the-day-the-mechanics-of-memory-the-dream-hotel
Get your copy here!–> https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-mechanics-of-memory-audrey-lee/20713223
It’s Publishers Marketplace official! 🎉 Congrats to all!
Thank you to Reactor Magazine for helping announce Karen Osborne’s THE HOLLOW CROWN OF HEAVEN with Erewhon Books!
Check out the Reactor Magazine announcement here!–> https://reactormag.com/book-announcement-the-hollow-crown-of-heaven-by-karen-osborne/
If 2027 is too long to wait, check out Karen Osborne’s ARCHITECTS OF MEMORY and ENGINES OF OBLIVION, out now with Tor Books!
BAT EATER AND OTHER NAMES FOR CORA ZENG by Kylie Lee Baker is an April Library Reads Pick! 🎉
Publishing April 29th from Mira Books
Read about all the picks here!–> https://libraryreads.org/
Preorder your copy here!–> https://bookshop.org/p/books/bat-eater-and-other-names-for-cora-zeng-original-kylie-lee-baker/21390860
KC&A agents are back for another fabulous Writers Digest agent one-on-one boot camp this May!
There are so many things included in this package: a webinar on the nuts & bolts of submission materials and publishing, a 2 hour AMA, & feedback on your query, synopsis, and first 10 pages of your manuscript!
Sign up now!–> https://writersdigestuniversity.mykajabi.com/how-to-craft-query-letters-other-submission-materials
Happy Book Birthday to THE PAYBACK GIRLS by Alex Travis! 🥳
Why get over your cheating ex when you can get even? John Tucker Must Die meets One of Us Is Lying in a gripping, page-turning debut thriller.
His first mistake was underestimating them.
Senior year is going to be perfect. Meghan won’t settle for anything less. She’s already crushing her classes and dating the star of the basketball team. Nate’s friends have been less than welcoming, but it’s never easy being one of the only Black kids at a mostly white prep school. Still, Meghan did not expect the scene at pep rally.
Robin and Bria dated Nate too. Correction: are dating him. He never broke up with them, and Meghan is furious.
When Nate is found bloodied and unconscious in the locker room after the big game, suddenly the three teens are prime suspects–and a tenuous alliance may be the only way to clear their names. Except Meghan doesn’t remember everything that happened that night, and she’s starting to have feelings for one of the exes. One thing is for sure: the more clues they uncover, the more Meghan, Bria, and Robin each look responsible…
Get your copy here!–> https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-payback-girls-alex-travis/21575763