In The Bone Spindle (Razorbill, January 2022), debut novelist Leslie Vedder takes the fairytale we all know as Sleeping Beauty, and turns it completely on its head. In this imaginative retelling, not only does the damsel save the prince from…
As this difficult year comes to a close, we at Dead Darlings would like to thank everyone who brought light into our lives by making 2021 so great for readers and writers…from the helpful publicists to our talented bloggers to…
Everybody has a trick for entering their writing. They light candles, turn on Mozart, twirl three times counterclockwise. Me, I cook. This is new. And it isn’t the cooking, really, it’s the smell. Seems I need the simmering of onions…
In A Day Like This, Kelley McNeil writes about Annie, a mother and artist who seeks to unravel the truth of her past after she learns her beloved young daughter never existed. Annie Beyers has everything―a beautiful house, a loving…
Called “tautly plotted, expertly characterized, and genuinely riveting” by Publishers Weekly, Christine Nolfi’s The Passing Storm, tells the story of Rae Langdon, a 30-ish woman who struggles to work through a grief she never anticipated. With her father, Connor, she…
Juliette Fay is the award-winning, bestselling author of no less than six novels. Her latest, Catch Us When We Fall, is a poignant story filled with humor, compassion, and forgiveness. When the story begins, we meet Cass Macklin, determined to…