KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today!
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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today!
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Seize the means of run production. BREAKOUT YEAR (2025): I write books about ballplayers kissing. Repped by @DeidreKnight
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Thank u for bringing this very important science to my attention
January 18, 2026 at 5:23 PM
tal where is this and when can I read it
January 17, 2026 at 1:31 AM
bookfunnel with a newsletter sign up link (?). tho depending on the genre/if it's a series starter, permafreebie on retail sites can also work.
January 16, 2026 at 11:12 PM
looking forward to tyler childers' first romance novel lol
January 14, 2026 at 1:28 AM
I'd be curious to know! I was seeing this as in the valley where, say, olivia nuzzi's memoir resides (no real audience) but maybe that's a misjudgement
January 14, 2026 at 1:25 AM
no because those tend to be better than this (this is a fox news commentator doing an 'across the aisle' romance, which, 👎)
January 14, 2026 at 1:21 AM
like they've done these kinds of books before — has any of them actually been a hit?
January 14, 2026 at 1:17 AM
whispers: *hudson lin*
January 13, 2026 at 1:54 PM
it's so good. at one point I was like "if the monk and the relic thief do not kiss, I am going to write a mean letter" (they kiss)
January 13, 2026 at 3:23 AM
also I liked revolutionary yiddishland so much I wrote a short story that's riffing on one of the anecdotes from the book that got placed in a lit mag and will be published later this year. in case you thought I was cool: I am not
January 13, 2026 at 3:10 AM
Best historical fantasy with very strong romantic subplot about a heist to steal the bones of St. Nicholas: Nicked www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746273...
Nicked by M. T. Anderson: 9780593688007 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
AN NPR NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous, slyly funny, and delightfully queer work of historical fantasy, based on a bizarre but true...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Best YA trans girl book set in Western New York that taught me a lot about the art of being a kicker: One of the Boys www.levinequerido.com/store/one-of...
One of the Boys — Levine Querido
Grace Woodhouse has left a lot behind. She used to have a great friend group, an amazing girlfriend, and a right foot set to earn her a Division I football scholarship—before she came out as trans. As...
www.levinequerido.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Best second-chance hockey romance containing scenes set in a Halifax bar that I think I could smell just from the pages: The Shots You Take www.harlequin.com/shop/books/9...
The Shots You Take - Harlequin.com
www.harlequin.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Best historical romance that made me go, "wait, you can do that in a romance book?" over and over: Black Silk www.harpercollins.com/products/bla...
Black Silk
www.harpercollins.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Best 18th and 19th century vampire horror that also played with epistolary form: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Bu...
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Selected as One of The New York Times’s 100 Notable Books of 2025 A Barack Obama Summer Read A Time, The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, To...
www.simonandschuster.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Best nonfiction book translated from French that reconfigured my understanding of the 20th century: Revolutionary Yiddishland
www.versobooks.com/products/254...
Revolutionary Yiddishland
Jewish radicals manned the barricades on the avenues of Petrograd and the alleys of the Warsaw ghetto; they were in the vanguard of those resisting Franco and the Nazis. They originated in Yiddishland...
www.versobooks.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:08 AM