Spotlight of Summer's Never Over by Darby Bozeman

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SUMMER'S NEVER OVER

DARBY BOZEMAN

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This summer, the irresistible voice and surprising twists of We Were Liars meets the eerie summer camp setting of The God of the Woods in Darby Bozeman’s riveting dual-timeline debut thriller.

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June 9, 2026

Berkley Trade Original

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PRAISE FOR SUMMER'S NEVER OVER:

“Eerie and propulsive. A fantastic debut that will have you racing toward its final pages.”—Jessica Goodman, New York Times bestselling author of The Counselors

“Darby Bozeman has the perfect beach read in this sinister summer camp thriller, where the paradisical woods of Dread’s Cove hide not only hot bodies and cold waters, but dark secrets. Summer’s Never Over is like the best campfire s’mores: layered, singed by flame around the edges, a little dark, a little sweet, and a whole lot addictive. Thriller lovers will gobble this up.”—Ashley Winstead, USA Today bestselling author of This Book Will Bury Me

“Equal parts sultry romance and gripping mystery, Summer’s Never Over pulled me under like a riptide, each twist sharper and each revelation more satisfying than the last. A shimmering debut about the love that won’t let you go, the friendships that change you, and the long-buried secrets that threaten to ignite it all.”—Kelsey Cox, bestselling author of Party of Liars

“A book that feels like August sun on your skin and spooky nights by a crackling fire, Summer’s Never Over lives up to its nostalgic title. A must-read for anyone chasing that high of a sparkling summer on the lake—or the spine-tingling chill that awakens after sundown.”—Ande Pliego, USA Today Bestselling author of You are Fatally Invited

“Summer’s Never Over is the perfect book to curl up with after a long day spent in the sun, when all you want to do is hide under the covers with a page-turning mystery. The atmospheric summer camp setting is a dreamy backdrop for the threads of romance and mystery that Bozeman so expertly weaves throughout the plot.”—Olivia Muenter, USA Today Bestselling Author of Such a Bad Influence

“Darby Bozeman’s Summer’s Never Over is a mesmerizing story about friendship and secrets that will keep you riveted until the very last page. Reading this book is like returning to summer camp, full of new best friends and whispered confidences… except in this version, not all is as it seems, and it dawns on you that those hidden truths just might lead to your horrific demise. Bozeman’s writing succeeds on both a level of incredible tension and lyrical prose, making it sure to be your next unputdownable thriller.”—Jessica Payne, author of Somebody Worth Killing

“Darby Bozeman’s debut is simmering with suspense and summer camp nostalgia. Packed with emotional tension and haunting imagery, Summer’s Never Over is the perfect vacation read!”—Miranda Smith, author of Smile for the Cameras

“Summer’s Never Over has everything you want in a summer thriller: a tight-knit summer camp setting, long-buried secrets, sizzling romance, and tension that crackles from every page. Darby Bozeman’s debut is as intoxicating as the intense, all-consuming female friendships at its center—I couldn’t put it down!”—Olivia Worley, author of So Happy Together

“An addicting mix of family secrets, sweltering summer love and the ever twisting strands of female friendship, in Summer’s Never Over, Darby Bozeman skillfully weaves heart-panging romance with a gripping murder mystery. I couldn’t read it fast enough.”—Catherine Walsh, author of Holiday Romance

“Impressive debut…an addictive thriller ideal for summer reading.”—Publishers Weekly

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ABOUT SUMMER'S NEVER OVER:

In this addictive dual-timeline debut novel, a woman confronts her past at the remote Southern summer camp where the tragic death of her fellow counselor may not have been an accident after all.

Five years ago, Greer left her family’s summer camp in the mountains of Georgia and vowed she’d never return. An idyllic season had turned into a nightmare after a mysterious Phantom began stalking the camp—and ended with Greer’s friend and fellow counselor dead. Losing Steph shattered everything, and Greer’s been fleeing from the grief ever since.

But then Greer’s mother dies, and Greer finds herself back at Dread’s Cove, surrounded by the people she was closest to that intense summer. Two ex-boyfriends—one a childhood sweetheart, the other the guy she’s never gotten over—and old friends. Including Margo, Steph’s best friend.

Greer and Margo didn’t leave things on the best of terms. But now, Margo needs her. Margo never believed that Steph’s death in that horrific fire was an accident—and she’s on the trail of an explosive secret Steph took to her grave.

Greer has to make a choice: keep the Cove’s secrets and her own, or finally face the truth about that summer.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Darby Bozeman grew up in Portland, Oregon, but she’s spent the better part of her adult life in the South.

She has a master’s in teaching from the University of Georgia and she taught middle school English for five years.

When she’s not reading or writing, she loves acting in community theater and discussing pop culture.

She lives in Knoxville with her husband, Bryan, and their cat, Claude.

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Spotlight of Good Company by Kate Christensen

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GOOD COMPANY

KATE CHRISTENSEN

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ALL INFORMATION IN THIS POST IS COURTESY OF  MICHELLE BLANKENSHIP OF BLANKENSHIP PUBLIC RELATIONS

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From the brilliant Kate Christensen, winner of the PEN/Faulkner award for The Great Man, comes a compelling, searing, funny novel about women, sex, power, and self-reckoning.

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June 16, 2026

Harper Hardcover

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PRAISE FOR GOOD COMPANY:

 

"Christensen’s adeptness at character development and psychological analysis shines . . . . An astute addition to a decade of discussions about consent and predation."—Kirkus Reviews
 
"Nuanced . . . . Julia’s complex characterization will stay with readers."—Publishers Weekly
 
"Kate Christensen eloquently deconstructs female desire and ambition and the ways in which those twin drives can be manipulated by men and women alike. The result is a novel that is emotionally raw, bracingly honest, and filled with compassion."—Marisa Silver, author of At Last
 
"This is a memoir disguised as a novel, starring a protagonist who has written a memoir—a super-sharp postmodern experiment in memory and narrative subjectivity. It is Kate Christensen’s best novel yet, a wonder and a triumph!”—Jessica Anthony, author of The Most 

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ABOUT GOOD COMPANY:

Ever since her father broke her heart when she was nine, Julia Heimdahl has tried to be good company for bad men: a jovial drinking companion, an easygoing, witty non-complainer, one of the boys. Now a literary novelist in late middle age and late mid-career, she is at a moment of crisis, although she doesn’t know it yet. 
 
The novel takes place over the course of a weekend-long book festival at Baldwin College, which happens to be Julia’s alma mater, where she has come to promote her recently published memoir. She’s been placed on a panel with a fellow memoirist named Ellis Blackwell, a man so outrageously flirtatious and fawningly flattering, Julia is almost too disarmed to recognize how dangerous he is. 
 
Interweaving excerpts from Julia's memoir with her encounters with important people from her past—the woman she was in love with in college, her old New York mentor, her male editor, her literary nemesis, a former graduate student—GOOD COMPANY examines what it really means to be “good company" as Julia faces her demons and comes to terms with what she really wants from sex, life, and work.

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A Conversation with Kate Christensen

Author of GOOD COMPANY 

Q: What made you write this book? What was the initial impulse, and what was the inspiration that allowed you to see it through to the end? 

A: Over the past ten or fifteen years, I've been feeling increasingly aware, both personally and generally, of how men treat women, but also how women treat one another, in ways that feel destructive but aren’t necessarily personal or intentional. Misogyny is widespread, entrenched, and shared by both men and women. Women tend to internalize it. Men tend to externalize it. But the source is the same, an almost universal view of women as less-than. 

I wanted to write a novel about this. But to write a novel about something, you have to tell a story, you have to create characters whose interactions spark the ideas you're writing about. Good Company isn't a screed or a manifesto, it's a fictional expression of my own recent deep dive into the sources of my own internalized misogyny and my complicity in the way certain men have treated me all my life. 

Q: What does the term “good company” mean?

A: In the context of the novel, the term “good company” means the kind of woman who isn’t needy, who never complains or criticizes, who takes it on the chin like one of the boys, no matter how sexist the jokes are, no matter how demeaned she feels. The price of admission to the club is to be the Hemingway dream girl, as I've always called it to myself. Hard-boiled, hard drinking, no trouble, nothing but fun. 

The other, hidden price of admission is a loss of self-respect. But all you have to do to get that back is to leave quietly and never enter those rooms again, relinquish the need for male approval, get out of the female dance of judgment and competitiveness, move through it all toward real connection. 

Q: Good Company is set at a writing festival over the course of a weekend, but the chapters in real time are interspersed with excerpts from the memoir your protagonist, Julia, is there to promote. You published a memoir in 2011, fifteen years ago. How did your own experience of writing Blue Plate Special inform Julia's in the novel?

A: Ever since I published Blue Plate Special, I've been aware of how much I had to leave out, how curated the memories were, no matter how real and honest they might have felt. This was partially because I was writing about a lot of people who were still alive; I had to couch the truth. But also, memory is a tricky, slippery thing, largely subjective, unlike the fictional imagination, which has an authority that cannot be denied or argued with.

I can be so much more honest in fiction than memoir. In my novels, I've always written about my family, exes, former friends, people who've done me wrong, people I've loved. But I used those relationships as springboards into wholly invented, fictional characters. This allows me to tell the truth in a way that doesn't feel dangerous. 

There’s always a tension in a memoir between what’s told and what’s left out. In Good COMPANY, I used Julia’s memoir excerpts to inform the present of the novel. She’s more brutally honest in her memoir than I was in mine, but she has blind spots. She's not entirely aware of all the forces at play in her life, her own part in the dance of her relationships, and that was the point of including the chunks of her memoir, to illuminate her present-day life.

Q: How much of your own life did you draw on for this novel?

A: It’s true: Julia is a middle-aged female novelist whose life and professional trajectory bear a glancing resemblance to my own. I used some of my own experiences in creating the tension between her memoir and her life; I felt that same tension in my fifties following the publication of Blue Plate Special. But I also made a lot of things up, created composites of real-life people, invented others. And ultimately, the great joy of writing this novel was that It's not about me.

Q: There's something very raw and vulnerable about this book, as well as structurally risky. Was this a deliberate choice?

A: One of my early readers called this book “punk rock.” And I think that's true, in the sense that it might feel subversive and truth-telling. It wasn’t a choice; the book demanded to be written like this. The style emerged organically in a way that felt very natural to me, without deliberate artifice or stylistic irony.

I wanted to show a woman at a moment of both personal and professional crisis, rooted in the present but informed by the past. And to do that, I had to figuratively open a vein and let it flow onto the page. It felt cathartic, but it also felt scary in a whole new way. It's a new kind of book for me. And yes, it felt very risky, but I needed to write this book for so many reasons. 

Q: What are you hoping readers will take away from this book? 

A: I hope readers will relate to Julia, even if they don't always approve of her or even like her. By this, I mean that I hope they see some of their own experiences in hers and recognize her struggles. I've watched two “waves” of feminism rise and die. I watched the #MeToo movement ignite and become extinguished. Two of the most qualified presidential candidates in American history, both women, were recently defeated by a serial sexual predator. And through all of this, not very much has changed for women. In fact, things are getting worse for us. We need to talk about this. We need to talk about misogyny, including the ways in which we’re complicit. 

Most of all, I hope readers are moved and provoked and affected by this book.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

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Kate Christensen's most recent novel is Good Company.

As Sydney Graves, she writes the Jo Bailen detective series and has just completed Saguaro City, the second installment.

Her fourth novel, The Great Man, won the PEN/Faulkner Award. She has also published two food-centric memoirs, Blue Plate Special and How to Cook a Moose, which won the Maine Literary Award for Memoir.

She lives with her husband and their two dogs in northern New Mexico. 

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Spotlight of Twenty Something Else by Stephanie Mack

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TWENTY SOMETHING ELSE

STEHANIE MACK

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ALL INFORMATION IN THIS POST IS COURTESY OF ERICA TEMPESTA, PUBLICIST FROM KAYE PUBLICITY.

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An exploration of second chances, identity, friendship, and love, with hints of romance, this is the perfect read for fans of Courtney Walsh, Rebecca Serle, and Carley Fortune.

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June 9, 2026

Tyndale Fiction

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PRAISE FOR TWENTY SOMETHING ELSE:

"Asking a question many of us have pondered―What if life took a different turn and sent us in an entirely different direction?―this novel is both distinctive and clever, plucky, and entertaining. A must-read!"—T. I. Lowe, internationally bestselling author of South of Somewhere

"A hilarious, heartfelt exploration of love, family, and friendship. With sharp humor, clever observations, and deeply human insight, this novel will have you laughing, reflecting, and texting your best friend mid-chapter. Get ready for your next obsession."—Devon Daniels, author of The Rom Con

"Twenty Something Else is the most beautifully, achingly real story I’ve read in ages. The fantastical elements sure make for a fun ride! The result is a one-of-a-kind gem that sparkles with wit and wisdom that feels uniquely millennial but will undoubtedly appeal to readers of all ages. Equal parts comfortingly wholesome and refreshingly frank, this one straight-up knocked my socks off."— Bethany Turner, award-winning author of Brynn and Sebastian Hate Each Other: A Love Story

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ABOUT TWENTY SOMETHING ELSE:

On the eve of her fortieth birthday, a woman wakes up from a pickleball accident with the unexpected chance to relive her twenties in this sparkling novel from a fresh, new voice.

Sutton Layne is almost-forty and fabulous, with a happy marriage, three beautiful children, and a successful interior design business. But there’s plenty of chaos behind the scenes of early midlife. Her preteen son is going off the rails, her husband is bailing on the party he was supposed to throw her, and that thriving business? If she can’t land her next big client, it might all come crashing down. Then a surprise DM from someone in her past sends her spiraling into what-ifs. What if she settled down too young? Walked away from her big break? Never had her great adventure?

Despite her simmering mini-crisis, Sutton can’t wait for the birthday luncheon and pickleball tournament her friends have planned in her honor. But when an accident on the court knocks her out cold, she wakes up somewhere else . . . and is offered the chance to do it all over again. She can revisit her twenties―out of order and on her own terms. And this time around, anything goes: cities, careers, friendships. Even love.

From star-studded Hollywood nights to the jungles of Nicaragua, from the heat of Coachella to the snowy summit of the Matterhorn, Sutton chases the life she fears she might have missed, with unexpected results.

With a wink to the classic It’s a Wonderful Life, Twenty Something Else is a witty, wistful journey through the dreams we outgrow, the life choices that shape us, and the surprising detours that can lead us home.

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Stephanie Mack is an author with a passion for storytelling—on the page, on the mic, and beyond.

Her novels blend women's fiction and romantic elements with meaningful insights for readers navigating the complexities of modern life.

Stephanie lives in Orange County, California, with her husband, three daughters, and beloved mini Bernedoodle.

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Spotlight of The Very Unremarkable Life of Mrs. Etty Bloom by Talya Jankovits

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THE VERY UNREMARKABLE LIFE OF MRS. ETTY BLOOM

TALYA JANKOVITS

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ALL INFORMATION IN THIS POST IS COURTESY OF ERICA TEMPESTA, PUBLICIST FROM KAYE PUBLICITY.

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An extraordinary work of historical literary fiction from award-winning writer Talya Jankovits that explores the beauty and lasting meaning of an ordinary life.

It’s a novel readers will carry with them long after the final page.

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June 15, 2026
Running Wild Press

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PRAISE FOR THE VERY UNREMARKABLE LIFE OF MRS. ETTY BLOOM:

“Jankovits, an award-winning poet, shines in this immersive, beautifully written debut…This intimate look at the Hasidic community is a must-read.”—Booklist, starred review

“A beautifully sad and unexpectedly funny representation of the myriad ways women retain a sense of self in the midst of a patriarchal society.”—Sarah Yahm, author of Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation

 

“Etty’s story is deftly and deeply crafted, and her very particular voice—at times hilarious, at others despondent—will haunt you long after you finish the book.”—Jessica Elisheva Emerson, award-winning author of Olive Days

 

“With great humor and pathos, author Talya Jankovits reveals that all life, no matter how ordinary or small, is extraordinary when lived fully. Etty Bloom is not only full of life, she is remarkable.”—Zeeva Bukai, winner of the Goldberg Prize for Debut Fiction for The Anatomy of Exile 

 

“Jankovits is a talented poet, and readers will be dazzled by her eloquent, moving, laugh-out-loud hilarious, and sparkling prose in this fantastic debut novel…This lovely gift of a story inspires one to recognize all there is to love about even the most unremarkable life.”—Toni Ann Johnson, Flannery O’Connor Award-winning author of Light Skin Gone to Waste 

 

“Talya Jankovits’ secret ingredient is compassion—even when Etty is being a bit meshuggah, Jankovits writes her with so much love and care, we can’t help but love her (and the fire inside her) too. Etty and her family will forever be part of the mishpucha of my heart.”—Gayle Brandeis, PEN/Bellwether Prize-winning writer and author of Drawing Breath: Essays on Writing, the Body, and Loss 

 

Talya Jankovits delivers the delicious goods in her new novel…Powerful, poignant, and joyful, The Very Unremarkable Life of Mrs. Etty Bloom is nothing short of remarkable!”—Diane Gottlieb, editor of Manna Songs: Stories of Jewish Culture & Heritage

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ABOUT THE VERY UNREMARKABLE LIFE OF MRS. ETTY BLOOM:

In the insulated Hasidic community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, tradition and cultural norms are as sacred as religion.

Childhood friendships are cultivated to climb social ladders, matchmakers dictate futures, and young girls are primed for marriage and motherhood.

So, when Etty Greenberger, a headstrong redhead and the only child of Holocaust survivors, commits one ugly and thoughtless act, she believes she has sabotaged her opportunity to secure a desirable match.

Reluctantly, she agrees to marry Benji Bloom, a fishmonger’s son far below her marital aspirations, becoming Mrs. Etty Bloom. With each passing year, Etty grows further from the life she had hoped for, filled with disappointment and delusions of grandeur.

As she grapples with loss, grief, and the challenges of motherhood, she also discovers friendship, love, and joy in the most unexpected places.

It may take a lifetime, but Etty Bloom finally learns that an unremarkable life can be remarkable after all.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

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Talya Jankovits is the author of the poetry collection, girl woman wife mother.

Her essays, fiction, and poetry have appeared in many publications.

She currently resides in Chicago with her husband and their four daughters.

The Very Unremarkable Life of Mrs. Etty Bloom is her debut novel.

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