Friday Five – Summer Edition

How Hard Can It Be? by Allison Pearson was featured as a read to heat up your summer by USA Today. Allison was also interview about her book by BookTrib.

When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri was named a summer read; featured for Pride Month on Shondaland, HelloGiggles, Buzzfeed, Advocate and Marie Claire; named a beach read by amNewYork; a book to read if you’re single by Bustle; and a new romance of June by Hypable. Camille was also interviewed on USA Today‘s Happy Ever After.

Jessica Knoll shared her key to productivity with Ladders. Her book, The Favorite Sister, was called a best summer beach read by Daily Beast, a book to read this summer by Fodors Travel and was acquired for a series by Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories.

Our Little Secret by Roz Nay and The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll were featured as killer new thrillers by Us Weekly.

All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin, Providence by Caroline Kepnes, Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott and Hidden by Kelli Clare were named thrillers you have to have on your radar by POPSUGAR.

Providence by Caroline Kepnes was highlighted as a best book of 2018 by Real Simple, a page-turner by Providence Journal, an “ultimate summer read” by Bustle, was on the Must List in Entertainment Weekly and was featured on The Tonight Show by Jimmy Fallon.

When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri and Providence by Caroline Kepnes were called best new books by People. 

Bustle called Unwifeable by Mandy Stadtmiller a book sure to spark discussion at book club, Buzzfeed featured it as a book a great audiobook and it was featured in The New Yorker and POPSUGAR. Mandy also shared with Refinery29 about sharing her darkest secrets.

Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, shared with Bustle about how she became a best-seller and her book was featured as a book to read if you love The Bold Type on She Reads.

The Other Woman by Sandie Jones was highlighted by Publishers Weekly as a fall mystery release.

Providence by Carline Kepnes, All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin, How Hard Can It Be? by Allison Pearson, The Bucket List by Georgia Clark, and Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott were books for your beach bag on POPSUGAR.

Refinery29 called Unwifeable by Mandy Stadtmiller and The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll books they can’t wait to read. 

Jessica Knoll, author of The Favorite Sister, and Megan Abbott, author of Give Me Your Hand, were featured by Off the Shelf as great authors with forthcoming books.

The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll, All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin, How Hard Can It Be? by Allison Pearson, Before and Again by Barbara Delinsky, and Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott were named highly anticipated books of summer by She Reads. 

Carola Lovering shared about her book, Tell Me Lies, with Literary Hub.

How Hard Can It Be? by Allison Pearson, Hidden by Kelli Clare, Her Pretty Face by Robyn Harding, How to Walk Away by Katherine Center, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Tell Me Lies by Carola Lovering, The Completionist by Siobhan Adcock and The Lightkeeper’s Daughters by Jean E. Pendziwol were named best books for your #TBR pile by Bookstr. 

The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll and Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott are books authors are packing for their summer vacations according to Real Simple.

Entangled Moon by E.C. Frey was named a breakout novel of 2018 by Indie Picks and a suspense book to read by POPSUGAR.

When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri was called “both a lighthearted romance and a deeply nuanced exploration of identity” by Book Reporter, the lesbian chick lit romance of summer by INTO, ridiculously relatable by Elite Daily and was a staff pick from Entertainment Weekly. 

How to Walk Away by Katherine Center, Three Days Missing by Kimberly Belle, The Subway Girls by Susie Orman Schnall, The Lightkeeper’s Daughters by Jean E. Pendziwol, Tell Me Lies by Carola Lovering, Her Pretty Face by Robyn Harding, The Completionist by Siobhan Adcock, Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott and Not Her Daughter by Rea Frey were featured as summer reads by Working Mother. 

Parade called Hidden by Kelli Clare and When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri two of summer’s hottest new reads for hopeless romantic.

Three Days Missing by Kimberly Belle, Hidden by Kelli Clare and The Completionist by Siobhan Adcock were featured as books that sizzle by Pensacola News Journal. 

Michele Campbell, author of She Was the Quiet One, and Megan Abbott, author of Give Me Your Hand, had a chat with PureWow.

Rea Frey, author of Not Her Daughter, shared a debut diary with Thrill Begins.

The Other Woman by Sandie Jones, Three Days Missing by Kimberly Belle and She Was the Quiet One by Michele Campbell were highlighted as unputdownable on Goodreads Blog. 

KTVB called All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin and The Bucket List by Georgia Clark best books to read this summer.

Entertainment Weekly featured Megan Abbott, author of Give Me Your Hand, as potentially being Hollywood’s next big novelist, she was interviewed about her murderesses by Vulture and about the taboo topics she writes about by Literary Hub.

The Subway Girls by Susie Orman Schnall and Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott were named books to read this summer by InStyle.

Three Days Missing by Kimberly Belle and Her Pretty Face by Robyn Harding  were featured as chilling thriller for the summer by Buzzfeed.