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.
The book news keeps coming, and this week we’ve got cover reveals and excerpts from some highly anticipated books. We’ve also got some adaptation updates, a bit of audiobook news, and a new sapphic reimagining of a well-known character from classic literature. Curious? Keep reading to get all of the details.
If you loved Silver Elite, then get excited, because Dani Francis is publishing a sequel to her dystopian romance novel. Broken Dove will be out on May 5, 2026. But you can check out a sneak peek of the book right now!
Philippa Gregory is back with another historical fiction book, and she’s returning to the word of the Tudors! 25 years after the release of The Other Boleyn Girl, Gregory is treating readers to the story of Jane Rochford in Boleyn Traitor. Check out the cover and an excerpt now, and get ready for the new book in October of this year.
After the first screening of Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights adaptation, audiences have some criticisms. Audiences are calling the film “sexually explicit” and “tonally abrasive.” Many have also noticed the inaccuracies in the casting, the set design, and the costume design. “But just wait till you see it,” casting director Kharmel Cochrane said in response to the criticism. “You really don’t need to be accurate. It’s just a book. That is not based on real life. It’s all art.”
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Alexis Bledel is narrating a special 50th Anniversary Edition of Natalie Babbit’s Tuck Everlasting. You can listen to an excerpt now. The audiobook will be released on September 2 from Macmillan Audio and will be available everywhere you get your audiobooks.
Here’s the cover of The Unruly Heart of Miss Darcy, a new sapphic YA sequel to Pride and Prejudice. Finally, Georgiana Darcy get her own love story in this upcoming novel. The cover was designed by Bijou Karman with a graphic from Brianna Heath. The Unruly Heart of Miss Darcy will be available on April 7, 2026.
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