Friday Five – May The Fourth Be With You Edition

Happy Friday! This week’s Friday Five is a tribute to Star Wars in honor of May Fourth.

The Elizas by Sara Shepard, The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll and Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott were featured in a roundup of best books of 2018 by Cosmopolitan.

The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll was included as a new book to read in May by Entertainment Weekly.

Jessica Knoll was also interviewed on The Today Show. In addition, her book, The Favorite Sister, was featured in the May issue of Glamour.

How to Walk Away by Katherine Center and The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll were both featured on Bustle.

Melissa Scholes Young author of Flood, was interviewed by KBIA, the NPR station in Columbia, MO, and her book was included in a roundup on Buzzfeed.

It’s Always the Husband by Michele Campbell and The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll were part of Culturalist‘s top ten thrillers.

Lisa Sugar of POPSUGAR (our SRC media partner) shared her unboxing of Susie Schnall‘s The Subway Girls. 

How to Walk Away by Katherine Center was included in the best new fiction of spring roundup on BookBub.

Summer of New Beginnings by Bette Lee Crosby, The Opposite of Never by Mary Kathleen Mehuron, and Flood by Melissa Scholes Young were included in a roundup for Mother’s Day on Working Mother.

Paste Magazine shared an exclusive excerpt from When the Beat Drops by Anna Hecker.

Summer of New Beginnings by Bette Lee Crosby, Our Little Secret by Roz Nay, The Subway Girls by Susie Schnall, When You Knew by Jamie Beck and Girl with a Gun by Kari Bovée were all named best beach reads on Ms. Career Girl. 

When the Beat Drops by Anna Hecker, Sweet Black Waves by Kristina Perez, Sea Witch by Sarah Henning, and My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton and Jodi Meadows were featured on Kassidy Voinche’s YouTube channel. 

Teenreads reviewed The Frontman by Ron Bahar, saying the book does a “good job at capturing what it was like to be a teenager in the early 1980s.”

Melissa Scholes Young is hosting a Goodreads giveaway for her book Flood. 

Kelli Clare released the book trailer for her book Hidden. 

Robin Oliveira, author of Winter Sisters, was featured in Times Union to promote her event on May 3rd.

Kimberly Belle, author of Three Days Missing, was interviewed by Voyage ATL.