With just a short week until Thanksgiving, get your dose of our client highlights that will also act as your perfect holiday binge read suggestions in this week’s edition of Friday Five!

The publishing process is not all it’s cracked up to be. Leslie Johanson Nack stops by Writer’s Digest and is giving it to us straight and sharing her experience working with an editor on her latest book, Fourteen.

As we are approaching the holiday season San Francisco Book Review has shared 500 recipes from 5 holiday cookbooks! We are so thrilled to see Lisa Ryan’s Go Clean, Sexy You and Sandra Denneler’s Oh, What a Treat included on this list!

Calling all YA readers! Kids’ BookBuzz has the perfect reads for you this season! We are so excited to see our books included: Kristen Hunt’s Blonde Eskimo, Strat Warden’s Huskers, Lauren Horowitz’s Shattered Blue, Carol Lynch William’s Never Said, and Author Colleen Oakes’ Wendy Darling!

Raise your hand if your favorite past time during Thanksgiving is to binge read as many books as possible! We are loving this must-read list from PopSugar including some of our clients: Dina Silver, Strat Warden, Carol Lynch Williams, Melissa Pearl, & A.N. Willis.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year… and also the most stressful! Check a few loved ones off your holiday gift list with a book that speaks to their funny bone, gets them thinking, or whisks them away to a past era. Manhattan Book Review has included a few of our authors on this fantastic holiday roundup: Lindsay Cameron, Barbara Solomon Josselsohn, Jill Dearman, Kelly Romo, Sunny Mera, and Karin Slaughter!