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Fave Five: New Queer YA Horror, 2025 Edition

Surprise, it’s actually six! I do what I want.

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If We Survive This by Racquel Marie

The Dead of Summer by Ryan La Sala

Hollow by Taylor Grothe

Empty Heaven by Freddie Kölsch 

Season of Fear by Emily Cooper

He’s So Possessed with Me by Corey Liu

Deal Announcements: July 2025

Adult Fiction

M.K. England writing as Autumn K. England’s FIELD GUIDE FOR THE FORMERLY VILLAINOUS, a cozy fantasy in which a non-binary former minion to the realm’s recently defeated Big Bad searches for a fresh start in a Stardew Valley-esque farming community, to Mary Altman at Poisoned Pen Press, at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in summer 2026, by Eric Smith while at P.S. Literary Agency (world).

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Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Young Adult Fiction: July-December 2025

After We Burned by Marieke Nijkamp (July 1st)

A terrible accident. A horrible loss. A regrettable tragedy. That’s all anyone in Fenix can talk about when a fire consumes the local high school, taking the life of a student. The town mourns, except who really knew―let alone cared about―Eden when she was alive? And why was she in the building that night?

Five teens each hold a piece of the truth about what happened. They also have their own secrets, secrets they will fight to protect with the same fury as the blaze that killed Eden. But silence is meant to be broken, and this story can’t be extinguished…

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