Happy Book Birthday to Pintip Dunn, Samuel Teer, Jamie Paction & Rebecca Podos

It’s a big day here at kt as we celebrate release day for a number of our clients!

Happy book birthday to Samuel Teer and BROWNSTONE, a graphic novel from Versify that Kirkus called “beautifully profound.”

An exciting teen coming-of-age epic from author Samuel Teer and debut graphic novel artist Mar Julia, Brownstone is a vivid, sweeping, ultimately hopeful story about navigating your heritage, even when you feel like you don’t quite fit in.

Also on shelves from Delacorte is SEASICK, a high-seas thriller from Pintip Dunn and Kristin Cast that Kathleen Glasgow called, "A clever, fast-paced and wildly delicious maritime mystery that will keep readers guessing until the very end."

Ex–best friends Naya Morgan and Yana Bunpraserit have always felt like outsiders in their small Oklahoma town. But this year, everything changes when they’re inducted into an exclusive society of Yatesville High’s top recent graduates. Unimaginable opportunities await them, starting with a celebratory yacht trip to Bermuda. Despite the likely onslaught of microaggressions and backhanded compliments from their peers—in addition to their own rocky past—Yana and Naya are ready for an epic voyage.

Then one of their classmates is brutally murdered, leaving them stuck at sea with a killer. Yana and Naya may have avoided each other for years, yet as the body count rises, rekindling their friendship might be the only way they’ll both survive.

Out today is FURIOUS from writer duo Rebecca Podos and Jamie Paction, which Kirkus calls, “a high-speed queer romance.”

Maxine Kaplan, author of Wench, said: “Furious is the stuff that romcom dreams are made of! When it's not snort-out-loud funny, it's I'm-not-crying-you're-crying poignant, and El and JoJo are both fully realized characters from the beginning--complex, and completely loveable. Their distinctive voices will grab you and not let you go. And the kissing scenes....look, just read it. Thank me later."