Friday Five – June 7th, 2019

Grant Ginder’s Honestly, We Meant Well was featured as a hot book of June in Entertainment Weekly.

Montauk by Nicola Harrison was featured as a book editors are taking to the beach this year on Vogue.

Harley in the Sky by Akemi Dawn Bowman had a cover reveal feature on Paste Magazine.

The Islanders by #SRC2019 guest author Meg Mitchell Moore, We Came Here to Forget by Andrea Dunlop,  The Escape Room by Meg GoldinA Stranger on the Beach by Michele Campbell were featured as top beach reads of summer on Yahoo Lifestyle.

#SRC2019 featured paperback pick author of The Completionist, Siobhan Adcock, had a featured content piece on Ms. Magazine. Her book was also featured on Parade Magazine as a book to read if you love The Handmaid’s Tale.

Sarah Neustadter, author of Love You Like the Sky, was quoted in a piece about mental health professionals fighting stigma on Well+Good.

A Stranger on the Beach by Michele Campbell, Honestly, We Meant Well by Grant GinderWe Came Here to Forget by Andrea Dunlop, The Last Book Party by Karen DukessRed, White & Royal Blue by #SRC2019 guest author Casey McQuiston and The Enlightenment of Bees by Rachel Linden were featured as essential summer reads on The Modern Jetsetter.

Grant Ginder’s Honestly, We Meant WellChandler Baker’s Whisper Network and #SRC2019 guest author Tan France’s Naturally Tan was named three of this summer’s best beach reads by Newsweek.

The Islanders by #SRC2019 guest author Meg Mitchell MooreThe Last Book Party by Karen Dukess and Whisper Network by Chandler Baker were named three of the July 2019 Indie Next List titles by the American Booksellers Association.

Grant Ginder’s Honestly, We Meant Well was named a book to read this June by Entertainment Weekly.

Andrea Dunlop, author of We Came Here to Forgetwas featured in a spoiler piece by Vanity Fair. She was also quoted in another Vanity Fair piece about Hollywood’s portrayal of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy.

Chandler Baker’s Whisper Network was featured as a best book club book coming this summer on BookBub.

You, Me, and the Sea by Meg DonohueThe Escape Room by Meg GoldinA Stranger on the Beach by Michele CampbellThe Road She Left Behind by Christine NolfiMontauk by Nicola HarrisonThe Printed Letter Bookshop by Katherine ReayHonestly, We Meant Well by Grant GinderThe Enlightenment of Bees by Rachel Linden and The Last Book Party by Karen Dukess were named a few of this summer’s best beach reads by Ms. Career Girl.

The Islanders by #SRC2019 guest author Meg Mitchell Moore, A Stranger on the Beach by Michele Campbell, The First Mistake by #SRC2018 author Sandie Jones, The Arrangement by #SRC2018 author Robyn Harding and The Night Before by #SRC2017 author Wendy Walker were featured in a piece about the components of a beach read on Vulture.

Naturally Tan by #SRC2019 guest author Tan France was named a book worth reading this summer by Time Magazine, featured as a hot new summer read on Bustle and called one of this season’s hottest new books by USA Today.

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Wedding Party by #FRC2018 guest author Jasmine Guillory, The Friends We Keep by #SRC2015 author Jane Green and The Night Before by #SRC2017 author Wendy Walker were called beach reads you won’t be able to put down by TODAY.

Love You Like the Sky by Sarah Neustadter and Newcomers in an Ancient Land by Paula Wagner were featured as nonfiction books guaranteed to give you all the feels on Brit + Co.

Grant Ginder’s Honestly, We Meant Well and Karen Dukess’s The Last Book Party were featured as two of the best books to read this summer on She Knows.

A Stranger on the Beach by Michele Campbell, The Runaway by Hollie Overton, The Escape Room by Meg Goldin, I Know Everything by Matthew Farrell, Because You’re Mine by Rea Frey and The Last Resort by Marissa Stapley were featured as new thrillers to sink your teeth into this summer on POPSUGAR.

Maren Cooper, the author of A Better Next, had a featured content piece on Thrive Global.

Camp Grandma by Marianne Waggoner Day earned a stellar review by Grand Magazine.


What an incredible week for our BookSparks authors!