Many of us writers have new releases this year, in fact some this month or next. But what other favorite authors of our beloved genre have new books coming out? I asked Paper Lantern Writers what they were most anticipating. And here are their answers.
The Listeners, by Maggie Stiefvater
My first encounter with Stiefvater’s work was a small YA book called The Scorpio Races centered around the mythical capaill uisce, stunning Scottish water horses that use their beauty to lure human prey to their deaths. The story was magical, both literally and figuratively. Over the years, I fell in love with many of her other YA books, so I was thrilled to hear the author was taken on an adult historical project. The Listeners is a story set at a lush fictitious Virginia resort during World War II. The protagonist, June Hudson, is the general manager of this luxury hotel. She has just been informed her hotel, like other nearby resorts in the historical record, is going to be filled with Axis diplomats to ensure captured Americans would also be treated well on the other side. Not an easy feat to manage, especially in the days when every family in area had a son, husband, or father in the war. There’s conflict and spies, there’s romance and betrayal, there’s even magic in the form of healing or harming springs beneath the hotel. I can’t wait to dig in!
I am most looking forward to The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis, which comes out in January. She’s one of my favorite authors. Another author I immediately buy is Marie Benedict. Her new novel, The Queens of Crime, will be released in February. Finally, I have marked my calendar for the release of Jennifer Chiaverini’s The World’s Fair Quilt. Her quilt books are cozy and delightful.
This year I’m looking forward to reading Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel. My first love of historical fiction started with Phillipa Gregory and The Other Boleyn Girl. I’m looking forward to reading more about Thomas Cromwell, an intriguing figure of that time period.
Going chronologically, I’m looking forward to Dean Cycon’s A Quest for God and Spices, which begins in 1200; Lora Jones’s The Woman in the Wallpaper, which is set during the French Revolution. Joy Callaway’s The Star of Camp Greene: A Novel of WWI; Nishant Batsha’s A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart (what a title!) also set during WWI; and finally, Lucy H. Hedrick’s Six Weeks in Reno which takes us into the 1930’s.
Thank you, Vanitha, Linda, Alina, and Ana for these recommendations. I added them to my TBR list. How about you?
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