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Cover Reveal: Spiraling Out by Maya Ameyaw

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Today on the site, I’m delighted to welcome back Maya Ameyaw to reveal the cover of her next contemporary YA, Spiraling Out, which releases March 2, 2027 from Annick Press! (Can’t wait to get your hands on a copy? Reviewers can grab it on Netgalley as a Read Now for 24 hours!) Here’s the story:

A competitive figure skater tries not to buckle under pressure while ignoring her growing feelings for her rival in this YA novel perfect for fans of Some Girls Do and Spinning.

Ever since failing to get the gold last season, figure skater Evelyn Osei has had her eyes on the prize. This time nothing will get in her way―not friends or school, not her OCD, and definitely not her ex-friend and rival Mei Sato who is training at Evelyn’s club this year. As the season progresses and her relationships fray, Evelyn has to confront that she might not have everything under control and that her feelings for Mei run deeper than either friendship or rivalry.
In her third novel, award-winning author Maya Ameyaw explores the stress of athletic competition and the confusion of first love with sensitive and vivid prose. Spiraling Out will speak to figure skating fans as well as any reader balancing the demands of daily life while on the complicated road to self-discovery.

And here’s the beautiful cover by Ashley Floreal!

Cover: Spiraling Out, by Maya Ameyaw. Text: This season, everything feels off balance. Illustration: two young women strike figure-skating poses while look at one another over their shoulder.

Buy it: Bookshop | Amazon | Annick Press

MAYA AMEYAW is a Toronto-based community arts writing instructor and award-winning author. She has edited several mental health–themed anthologies for youth and adults and is the author of the critically acclaimed novels When It All Syncs Up and Under All the Lights.

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Cover Reveal: Final Cut by Amy James

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Today on the site I’m delighted to partner with Amy James to reveal the cover of her upcoming m/m romance, Final Cut, releasing November 3rd! Here’s the story:

Hollywood’s favorite actor. Nobody’s favorite Formula 1 driver. One life-changing winter break.

Quin McCarthy is Hollywood’s favorite actor. Cole Milton is nobody’s favorite Formula 1 driver. The two men have less than nothing in common, and when their paths briefly cross at the Singapore Grand Prix, it ends in mutual loathing.

Neither expects to see the other again, but when Quin moves to a remote Canadian ski town to film a thriller series, he learns that his deep-woods rental cottage has a single neighboring property, owned and occupied by none other than Cole.

Quin resolves to ignore him and spend his winter nights reading books by the fireplace. But when he stumbles upon a dead body on set—and glimpses the murderer making a run for it—his laid-back winter plans take an abrupt turn for the worse. As things grow more dangerous, he’s forced to turn to Cole for help—and in doing so, realizes Cole might not be the bad guy everyone thinks he is.

Early praise for Final Cut:

“Amy James delivers a pulse-pounding romance that proves first impressions can be dead wrong. Equal parts heart-racing suspense and swoon-worthy chemistry, Final Cut had me racing to see what would happen next! Quin and Cole are the perfect opposites…one beloved by millions, one misunderstood by nearly everyone…and watching them fall for each other amidst danger, secrets, and snow-covered isolation was absolutely irresistible!” – Chip Pons, USA Today Bestselling author of Dearly Departed

“In Final Cut, a wintry small-town romance collides with a twisty murder investigation. I love how Amy James writes tense, tamped-down yearning, and how her characters push each other for honesty—baiting the tenderness from one another even when it’s hiding behind a shield of animosity. This is a fast-paced, moving story about grief, our capacity for both pain and healing, and the kind of love that sees our fear and brings it into the light.” – Ellen O’Clover, author of The Heartbreak Hotel

And here’s the sexy cover by Quel Martins!

A dark-haired man and a blond man stand together in a snowy forest. The dark-haired man holds the blond man's hand protectively.

Buy it:  In Bloom Bookery | Hopeless Romantic

Amy James lives on the east coast of Canada with her husband and dog. Her debut romance novel, A Five-Letter Word for Love (Avon, 2024) was short-listed for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. Her second romance novel, Crash Test (Avon, 2025) was named one of CBC Books’ Best Books of 2025.

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Fave Five: Contemporary Trans M/M Romance

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Stripped and Pumped by K.M. Neuhold

Sunset Springs by Kacen Callender (audio)

Bonus: Coming in 2027, check out Love and Lake Monsters by TJ Alexander and Reins and Restraint by Page Powars

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Cover Reveal: Southwest Gothic: Seven Plagues of Sa’stoh by Bladen Mercutio

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Today on the site I’m delighted to reveal the cover of Southwest Gothic: Seven Plagues of Sa’stoh by Bladen Mercutio, the second book in the folk horror Southwest Gothic series, releasing March 20, 2027! Here’s the story:

Five thousand years ago, he was buried. Now, the Scion of War is awake—and he’s thirsty for blood.

Six months after avoiding the Harvest’s world-altering Reaping, witches Remy and Vincent are still hunting for missing legends and loved ones. What they find instead across the haunting deserts of New Mexico is a nightmare: Lucio Sa’stoh, an ancient entity with god-like power, has broken free from his tomb with a singular, bloodthirsty purpose: to slaughter his own siblings.
To stop the tyrant from tearing the world apart, Remy and Vincent must form an uneasy alliance with the enigmatic but powerful Sam and Lilith. In a realm drenched in desert sun, folklore and fading magic, stopping the wrath of a god might cost them everything they have left.

And here’s the cover by Bohemian Trash Studios!

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Missed book 1? Check that out here!

Bladen is a scientist by day, rock star by night, writer in between, and someone who enjoys running only in dreams. A graduate in atmospheric sciences, they chase fire and tell the future for a day job. In addition to their work with the Southwest Gothic series, Bladen has written and recorded several varieties of sonic entertainment, including an accompanying soundtrack to the novels. A Desert Southwest native, they do their best writing in the ghost towns of the Texas borderland between the real and the unreal. Also a witch, the second law of thermodynamics is their magical ethos and they try to live everyday as though it were Halloween. Bladen likes cats, honey mustard, yelling at clouds while drinking scotchy scotch and is composed almost entirely of jokes.

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Exclusive Cover Reveal: Good Boys Don’t Bite by L.A. Barron

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Today on the site I’m delighted to reveal the cover of Good Boys Don’t Bite by L.A. Barron, an Adult Horror novel with lesbian and trans rep releasing October 13, 2026 from Contrarian Publishing! Here’s the story: 

It’s Rowdy Dawes’s last year at Harcourt Autumn, a month-long sleepaway camp in Oregon for fledgling vampires. Unable to be trusted on their own, Rowdy and her fellow campers are supposed to take the month to strengthen bonds between clans, practice their various gifts, and better manage their often uncontrollable thirst.

But Rowdy’s final Harcourt Autumn will not be a bittersweet hurrah. After the death of her best friend, Leena, Rowdy’s only goal is to bring her abuser to justice. The only problem? The person responsible for Leena’s taking her own life is the camp director.

In the months leading up to camp, Rowdy’s collected every scrap of evidence she can find, from a worn copy of Leena’s suicide note to all the texts and photographs she sent documenting the abuse, in the hopes of confronting the director. But when a human girl is found drained of all her blood in the lake wearing one of Rowdy’s shirts, she quickly discovers this Harcourt Autumn is not something she could ever have prepared herself for.

And here’s the chilling cover by Amber Claus!

Buy it: Bookshop | Amazon

L.A. Barron grew up in the dusty border lands of southern Arizona where the only escape from the heat was to write new worlds and give life to the invisible, sordid underbelly of the suburbs. Their love of escapism quickly grew into piles and piles of composition notebooks full of vampires, ghosts, and all things creepy.

Now located in the Pacific Northwest, they can be found wandering Saturday markets with an armful of flowers or hiding away in the dark corners of indie bookstores.

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Cover Reveal: It’s in Her Kiss by Dana Hawkins

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Today on the site, I’m delighted to reveal the cover for It’s in Her Kiss by Dana Hawkins, a Sapphic rom-com releasing February 2, 2027 from Storm! Here’s the story:

Eve O’Kelly is the kiss of death.

Not literally. She’s never actually killed anyone. But kiss her, and within forty-eight hours you’ll be in a freak accident. By day, she sells crystals, incense, and hand-poured candles. By night, it’s another lonely evening in with the cat. But after her exes racked up broken bones, twisted ankles, and one memorable ER visit, Eve is protecting the world from her lips.

Private investigator Sloane Wright doesn’t believe in curses. But she does believe in the FBI consulting career that’s finally within reach, if she can prove the pretty shop owner peddling “magic rocks” is at the center of a string of fraudulent injury lawsuits. But the more time she spends with the sparkly shop owner, the harder it gets to ignore the one complication her career can’t survive: she’s falling for the woman she’s supposed to take down.

Neither of them should want this. And even if they give in to it, can they build anything lasting longer than forty-eight hours?

And here’s the sugar-sweet cover by Rachel Lawston!

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Dana Hawkins is a caffeine-fueled writer of contemporary romance stories. After living in Seattle for twenty years, she recently returned to her hometown in Minnesota. She is a huge romance-genre book nerd and borderline obsessed with happy-ever-afters. As a mom of three humans and a cat who ignores her, she spends her days writing, chasing kids, neglecting her last remaining bamboo plant, and searching for the perfect coffee mug.

Queering up your shelf, one rec at a time!