Emily has a PhD in English from the University of Southern Mississippi, MS, and she has an MFA in Creative Writing from GCSU in Milledgeville, GA, home of Flannery O’Connor. She spends her free time reading, watching horror movies and musicals, cuddling cats, Instagramming pictures of cats, and blogging/podcasting about books with the ladies over at #BookSquadGoals (www.booksquadgoals.com). She can be reached at emily.ecm@gmail.com.
New week, new book news to get excited about. Here’s all the latest news about upcoming book releases, cover reveals, adaptations, and more.
E! News has a first look at the new novel from Rebecca Serle, author of In Five Years. “All my work in some way is an exploration of the dialogue between fate and free will,” Serle said. “How much is in our control and how much is just predestined? How much is gonna happen regardless of the choices that we make? How are those two things in conversation?” So we can expect more of that exploration in Serle’s new novel Once and Again. The novel comes out on March 10, 2026. But you can take a look at an excerpt from the upcoming book now!
Check out the cover of The Way it Haunted Him, a queer horror novel “set in a demon-infested archive, about trauma, grief and the lengths we will go to for love. Perfect for fans of T. Kingfisher and Tori Bovalino.” Laura R. Samotin’s novel is out from Titan Books next June!
Elle Kennedy, author of Off Campus, is returning with a new standalone novel set in the same universe. The new romance novel, Love Song, focuses on the next generation of characters from Kennedy’s books: Blake Logan is the daughter of the couple in The Mistake and Wyatt Graham is the son of the couple from The Deal. “Love Song means so much to me because it is my first true next-gen romance,” Kennedy told People. “It was such a joy to write because I got to revisit two of my favorite O.G. Off Campus characters (the iconic Garrett and Logan) via their son and daughter getting their [happily ever after].” Love Song is out on March 17, 2026.
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Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé’s new YA murder mystery The Heirs is hitting shelves in June 2026! In an Instagram post, the author writes, “The Heirs follows the genius adopted children of Billionaire, Leontes Button, in the aftermath of their father’s murder…
This is my favourite book I have written so far, I started writing it in 2021 and it has been such a joy to work on for the past 4 years! I hope you’re all ready to meet the very very dysfunctional Button family!”
Torrey Peters’s bestseller Detransition, Baby is being adapted for the big screen. Tommy Dorfman’s Good Girl Productions has acquired the rights to the novel for a film adaptation. Kevin Cotter (The Savant, Little House on the Prairie) will produce. A writer and director have yet to be announced.
Nina Dobrev, Tyler Hoechlin, and Virginia Gardner are starring in the film adaptation of Tessa Bailey’s It Happened One Summer. The film is currently in pre-production. Peter Hutchings (The Hating Game) will direct. Christina Mengert and Joseph Muszynski wrote the screenplay.
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