Friday Five – Ugly Holiday Sweater Edition

We’ve got that #FridayFeeling! ‘Tis the season for cheesy holiday sweaters! This week our Friday Five is celebrating National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day! This week’s big media wins are paired with our favorite ugly sweater GIFs.

Brit+Co has all of the best books of 2017 that you may have missed this year, featuring Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker, The Infinite Now by Mindy Tarquini, The Other New Girl by LB Gschwandtner, Flood by Melissa Scholes Young, Perfectly Undone by Jamie Raintree and more!

YourTango has all of the best romance reads of 2017, including Love Reconsidered by Phyllis Piano, Before I Knew by Jamie Beck, and London, Can You Wait? by Jacquelyn Middleton.

Buzzfeed selected the best YA reads of 2017 and featured One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake.

Book Club Babble picked Rethinking Possible by Rebecca Faye Smith Galli and The Next by Stephanie Gangi as 2 of the best books of 2017!

Danielle Wong, author of Swearing Off Stars, shared what it’s like to lose a parent in your 20’s with PopSugar.

Find out how to get a look inspired by Kristina Pérez’s Sweet Black Waves on Barnes & Noble Teen Blog.

London, Can You Wait? author Jacquelyn Middleton did an exclusive interview with The British Weekly.

Rebecca Whitehead Munn, author of The Gift of Goodbye, shares how to ride the waves of grief with MariaShriver.com.

Diane Pomerantz, author of Lost in the Reflecting Pool, was interviewed by the editor-in-chief of Author Magazine, William Kenower. Watch the full interview on Bill’s YouTube channel.

The Infinite Now author Mindy Tarquini, appeared on The Author Stories Podcast with Hank Garner.

Alane Adams, author of The Santa Thief, discussed her new book on The Daily Author.

Congratulations to Dori Jones Yang for winning the Freeman Award for The Forbidden Temptation of Baseball.

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What an incredible week for BookSparks authors!