WEDNESDAY BOOKS APRIL 2019
Wicked Saints A Novel
Emily A. Duncan
In this stunning Joan of Arc inspired debut, a peasant girl who can speak to the gods must find a way to work with a deadly adversary to turn the tide of the war and assassinate the mad king
When Nadya prays to the gods, they listen, and magic flows through her veins. For nearly a century the Kalyazi have been locked in a deadly holy war with Tranavian heretics, and her power is the only thing that is a match for the enemy’s blood magic. But when the Travanian High Prince, and his army invade the monastery she is hiding in, instead of saving her people, Nadya is forced to YOUNG ADULT FICTION / FANTASY / DARK FANTASY flee the only home she’s ever known, leaving it in flames behind her, and Wednesday Books | 4/2/2019 vengeance in her heart. 9781250195661 | $18.99 / $24.99 Can. Hardcover | 400 pages | Carton Qty: 16 As night falls, she chooses to defy her gods and forge a dangerous alliance with 9.3 in H | 6.3 in W Includes color endpapers plus one black- a pair of refugees and their Tranavian blood mage leader, a beautiful, broken boy and-white map who deserted his homeland after witnessing his blood cult commit unthinkable monstrosities. The plan? Assassinate the king and stop the war. Subrights: UK Rights: Wednesday Books Translation: Sandra Dijkstra & Associates Literary Agency But when they discover a nefarious conspiracy that goes beyond their two countries, everything Nadya believes is thrown into question, including her Other Available Formats: Audio ISBN: 9781250221193 budding feelings for her new partner. Someone has been harvesting blood mages Ebook ISBN: 9781250195685 for a dark purpose, experimenting with combining Tranavian blood magic with Audio ISBN: 9781250221186 the Kalyazi’s divine one. In order to save her people, Nadya must now decide whether to trust the High Prince – her country’s enemy – or the beautiful boy with powers that may ignite something far worse than the war they’re trying to MARKETING end. Pre-Publication Online Advertising Launch Advertising Trade Advertising PRAISE Early Reader Review Campaign Widespread ARC Distribution “Prepare for a snow frosted, blood drenched fairy tale where the monsters steal Digital Influencers Buzz Campaign your heart and love ends up being the nightmare. Utterly absorbing.” - Roshani Early Bound Manuscript Mailings Chokshi, New York Times bestselling author of The Star-Touched Queen Extensive ARC Mailings Edelweiss Digital Review Copy Available Festival Promotion "Full of blood and monsters and magic—this book destroyed me and I adored it." Wednesday Books Social Media - Stephanie Garber, New York Times bestselling author of Caraval Promotion Tor.com Promotion Email Marketing Campaign “Dark, bloody, and monstrously romantic. This is the villain love interest that Library Marketing Campaign we've all been waiting for.” - Margaret Rogerson, New York Times bestselling Author Website: https://eaduncan.com Author Twitter: @glitzandshadows author of An Enchantment of Ravens Author Instagram: @glitzandshadows EMILY A. DUNCAN works as a youth services librarian. She received a Master’s degree in library science from Kent State University, which mostly taught her how to find obscure Slavic folklore texts through interlibrary loan systems. When not reading or writing, she enjoys playing copious amounts of video games and dungeons and dragons. Wicked Saints is her first book. She lives in Ohio.
2 WEDNESDAY BOOKS MAY 2019
Again, but Better A Novel
Christine Riccio
From one of your favorite booktubers, Christine Riccio (Polandbananabooks), comes Again, But Better, a story about second chances, discovering yourself, and doing what makes you happy.
Shane has been doing college all wrong. Pre-med, stellar grades, and happy parents…sounds ideal -- but Shane's made zero friends, goes home every weekend, and romance…what’s that?
Her life has been dorm, dining hall, class, repeat. Time's a ticking, and she needs YOUNG ADULT FICTION / a change -- there's nothing like moving to a new country to really mix things up. SOCIAL THEMES / FRIENDSHIP Wednesday Books | 5/7/2019 Shane signs up for a semester abroad in London. She's going to right all her 9781250299253 | $18.99 / $24.99 Can. college mistakes: make friends, pursue boys, and find adventure! Hardcover with dust jacket | 384 pages | Carton Qty: 20 Easier said than done. She is soon faced with the complicated realities of living 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W outside her bubble, and when self-doubt sneaks in, her new life starts to fall Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press apart. Translation Rights: New Leaf Literary Other Available Formats: Shane comes to find that, with the right amount of courage and determination, Audio ISBN: 9781250222404 one can conquer anything. Throw in some fate and a touch of magic - the Ebook ISBN: 9781250299277 Audio ISBN: 9781250222398 possibilities are endless.
PRAISE MARKETING "Again, But Better is a fantastic debut novel! Entertaining, clever and impossible to Online Advertising put down." - New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover Early Reader Review Campaign NetGalley Promotion Wednesday Books Promotion "A story of finding love and finding yourself. Prepare to be completely charmed." Extensive Bookstagram and BookTube Outreach - Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling authors of Autoboyography Featured at YA Book Festivals Extensive Blog Outreach Christine Riccio's PolandbananasBOOKS YouTube channel has over 390,000 book-loving Email Marketing Campaign subscribers. She makes comedic book reviews, vlogs, sketches, and writing videos chronicling the Library Marketing Campaign creation of her own novel. She’s also one of the three YouTubers behind BOOKSPLOSION- Social Media Campaign YouTube’s longest running book club. These past four years Christine’s been collaborating with publishing companies and authors; and traveling across the United States to speak on book-related panels to further spread the reading love...
3 WEDNESDAY BOOKS MAY 2019
This Is Not a Love Scene
S. C. Megale
A funny and irreverent #ownvoices YA Romance about 18 year old Maeve who has muscular dystrophy and who is also an average teen girl trying to figure out high school and first love.
Lights, camera—all Maeve needs is action. But at eighteen, a rare form of muscular dystrophy usually stands in the way of romance. She's got her friends, her humor, and a passion for filmmaking to keep her focus off consistent rejection...and the hot older guy starring in her senior film project.
Tall, bearded, and always swaying, Cole Stone is everything Maeve can't be. And she likes it. Between takes, their chemistry is shockingly electric.
YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Suddenly Maeve gets a taste of typical teenage dating life, but girls in ROMANCE / CONTEMPORARY wheelchairs don’t get the hot guy—right? Cole’s attention challenges everything Wednesday Books | 5/7/2019 9781250190499 | $18.99 / $24.99 Can. she once believed about her self-image and hopes for love. But figuring this out, Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages | Carton both emotionally and physically, won't be easy for either of them. Maeve must Qty: 24 choose between what she needs and what she wants, while Cole has a tendency 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W to avoid decisions altogether. And the future might not wait for either. Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press Funny, emotional, and refreshingly honest, S.C. Megale’s This is Not a Love Other Available Formats: Scene is for anyone who can relate to feeling different while navigating the Ebook ISBN: 9781250190505 terrifying and thrilling waters of first love. Audio ISBN: 9781250232618 Audio ISBN: 9781250232601 PRAISE "Shea Megale is a terrific new voice in the world of YA. This Is Not A Love Scene MARKETING rings brilliantly true from the first page to the last. Megale’s prose is refreshingly Online Advertising original, her pacing already at a master level, and her storytelling abilities will pull Early Reader Review Campaign NetGalley Promotion hard on every emotion you have...Look out for this writer." —David Baldacci, New Wednesday Books Promotion York Times bestselling author National Indiebound Campaign Bookstagram and BookTube Outreach Featured at YA Book Festivals "This is Not a Love Scene is so good. S.C. Megale is remarkable... This book is the Blog Outreach result of her unswerving determination and undoubted talent." —John Flanagan, Email Marketing Campaign New York Times bestselling author of the Ranger’s Apprentice series Library Marketing Campaign Social Media Campaign S. C. MEGALE has been profiled in USA Today, The Washington Post, and New York Newsday, and has appeared on NBC’s “Today Show” and the CBS Evening News for her philanthropic and literary work. Born with Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type II, her writing focuses on both gravity and heart. She lives with her family—parents, siblings, and dogs—in Virginia. This is Not a Love Scene is her first published novel.
4 WEDNESDAY BOOKS JULY 2019
Please Send Help
Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin
The next novel from the New York Times bestselling authors of I Hate Everyone But You
In this hilarious follow-up novel to the New York Times bestseller I Hate Everyone But You, long distance best friends Ava and Gen have finally made it to the same time zone (although they’re still over a thousand miles apart).
Through their hilarious, sometimes emotional, but always relatable conversations, Ava and Gen are each other’s support systems through internships, relationship troubles, questionable roommates, undercover reporting, and whether or not it’s a good idea to take in a feral cat. Please Send Help perfectly captures the voice of young adults looking to find their place in the YOUNG ADULT FICTION / GIRLS world and how no matter how desperate things seem, you always have your best & WOMEN friend to tell it like it is and pick you back up. Wednesday Books | 7/16/2019 9781250216533 | $18.99 / $25.99 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages | Carton PRAISE Qty: 20 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W Praise for I Hate Everyone But You
Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press Translation: ABM "Give to fans of Robin Talley’s What We Left Behind or Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl. VERDICT A first purchase for all libraries serving older teens." —School Library Other Available Formats: Audio ISBN: 9781250223067 Journal (Starred Review) Ebook ISBN: 9781250216540 Audio ISBN: 9781250223050 "A fast-moving celebration of a friendship transformed by distance, change, and burgeoning maturity, but still stubbornly strong." —Publishers Weekly
MARKETING "Fans will be delighted." —Kirkus Reviews Online Advertising Trade Advertising Early Reader Review Campaign "Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin have captured everything about the pain and NetGalley Promotion Wednesday Books Promotion excitement of that first terrifying, fabulous, confusing year on your own in National Indiebound Campaign college." —Francine Pascal, bestselling author of the Sweet Valley High series Bookstagram and BookTube Outreach Featured at YA Book Festivals Young to Publishing Mailing ALLISON RASKIN & GABY DUNN are two best friends and New York Times bestselling authors Blog Outreach who live in Los Angeles. They started the comedy YouTube channel Just Between Us in 2014, Email Marketing Campaign which has amassed a near 150 million views and have created individual podcasts, both of which Library Marketing Campaign have landed on the iTunes international top charts. Gaby’s journalism has appeared in pretty much Social Media Campaign every major publication and Allison has written some really funny group texts with her family. Gaby Active on YouTube: @justbetweenusshow, and Allison have developed tel... 745k subscribers Active on Twitter: @JBUshow, 37.5k followers Active on Instagram: @gabyroad, 372k followers and @allisonraskin, 296k followers
5 WEDNESDAY BOOKS JULY 2019
I Hate Everyone But You A Novel About Best Friends
Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin
The instant New York Times bestseller and an Autumn 2017 Indie Next Pick, now in trade paperback.
The instant New York Times bestseller from Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin that POPSUGAR named one of the Best Young Adult Book of 2017 will now be hitting shelves in trade paperback!
In a series of texts and emails, best friends Ava and Gen share their stories of their first semesters of college on opposite sides of the country. From first loves YOUNG ADULT FICTION / GIRLS to weird roommates, Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin’s I Hate Everyone But You & WOMEN is a hilarious and heartfelt debut novel about new beginnings, self-discovery, Wednesday Books | 7/16/2019 coming out and mental health, and ultimately the power of friendship. 9781250129338 | $10.99 / $14.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Carton Qty: 24 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W PRAISE Subrights: UK: United Talent Agency "Give to fans of Robin Talley’s What We Left Behind or Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl. Translation: United Talent Agency VERDICT A first purchase for all libraries serving older teens." —School Library Other Available Formats: Journal (Starred Review) Ebook ISBN: 9781250129345 Hardcover ISBN: 9781250129321 "A fast-moving celebration of a friendship transformed by distance, change, and burgeoning maturity, but still stubbornly strong." —Publishers Weekly
MARKETING National Print Publicity "Fans will be delighted." —Kirkus Reviews Online Publicity Email Marketing Campaign Wednesday Books Promotion "Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin have captured everything about the pain and Social Media Campaign excitement of that first terrifying, fabulous, confusing year on your own in Author YouTube: @justbetweenusshow, college." —Francine Pascal, bestselling author of the Sweet Valley High series 755k subscribers Author Twitter: @gabydunn, 133k followers; @allisonraskin, 115k followers; ALLISON RASKIN & GABY DUNN are two best friends who live in Los Angeles. They started @JBUshow, 37k followers the comedy YouTube channel Just Between Us in 2014 and have since then spent far too much time Author Instagram: @gabyroad, 392k together. They have worked together and separately for Buzzfeed, Sourcefed and Fullscreen. Gaby’s followers; @allisonraskin, 326k followers journalism has appeared in pretty much every major publication and Allison has written some really Author Facebook: /justbetweenusshow, funny group texts with her family. They hope to die within one hour of each other so neither has to 10k likes plan a funeral.
6 WEDNESDAY BOOKS AUGUST 2019
The Last Hope
Krista & Becca Ritchie
The stunning conclusion to the sci-fi romance duology filled with twists and turns you'll never see coming.
Sacrifice all you have to survive.
Imprisoned for weeks on an enemy starcraft, Franny, Court, and Mykal have sat with an unfathomable revelation. They are human. But as they fight to stay alive, they’re unsure of why or how they’re different. Escaping prison means trusting a young mysterious stranger. He knows everything about their lost histories, but when answers aren’t given freely, the bonded trio are forced to join a mission. One that will determine the fate of humanity.
YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Legend says, a baby—the first of her species—has the power to cloak and SCIENCE FICTION teleport planets. Tasked with retrieving the infant, Court is afraid the baby is just Wednesday Books | 8/13/2019 a myth, and if they fail, they’ll never know the truth about their human origins. 9781250128737 | $18.99 / $25.99 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 384 pages | Carton Qty: 20 As Court and Mykal grow closer, their linked bond becomes harder to hide, and 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W dynamics change when Franny begins to fall for someone new. Vulnerable and with no choice, the hunt for the baby sends the trio on a dangerous path to Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martins' Press Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press Saltare-1: a water world where their enemies can’t die and survival comes at a high cost. Other Available Formats: Audio ISBN: 9781250222244 Ebook ISBN: 9781250128744 PRAISE Audio ISBN: 9781250222237 "A potently addictive blend of romance, fantasy, and science fiction full of unexpected twists." - Kirkus, Starred Review
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Again, but Better: A Novel; Christine Riccio...... 3 Duncan, Emily A.; Wicked Saints: A Novel...... 2 Dunn, Gaby; I Hate Everyone But You: A Novel About Best Friends...... 6 Dunn, Gaby; Please Send Help...... 5 I Hate Everyone But You: A Novel About Best Friends; Gaby Dunn...... 6 Last Hope, The; Krista Ritchie...... 7 Megale, S. C.; This Is Not a Love Scene...... 4 Please Send Help; Gaby Dunn...... 5 Riccio, Christine; Again, but Better: A Novel...... 3 Ritchie, Krista; The Last Hope...... 7 This Is Not a Love Scene; S. C. Megale...... 4 Wicked Saints: A Novel; Emily A. Duncan...... 2