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Fave Five: New Queer Witchy YA, 2025 Edition

Whoops, make that six.

Hit Me With Your Best Charm by Lillie Vale (f/f)

Extraordinary Quests for Amateur Witches by Kayla Cottingham (m/m)

Everything She Does is Magic by Bridget Morrissey (f/f)

Witchlore by Emma Hinds (m/x)

No Charm Done by Tori Anne Martin (f/f)

Brewed With Love by Shelly Page (f/f)

New Releases: October 14, 2025

This post is sponsored by Dana Hawkins in honor of the release of Any Girl But You:

Incompatible never felt so irresistible

The perfect queer romance for fans of Alexandria Bellefleur and Casey McQuiston who crave a side of holiday magic, small-town charm, and enough steam to melt even the biggest snowstorm.

Buy it!

Young Adult Fiction

The Leaving Room by Amber McBride

For fans of You’ve Reached Sam and If I Stay, a hauntingly beautiful, ultimately hopeful novel-in-verse about a girl in between life and death, by National Book Award Finalist Amber McBride.

Gospel is the Keeper of the Leaving Room—a place all young people must phase through when they die. The young are never ready to leave; they need a moment to remember and a Keeper to help their wispy souls along.

When a random door opens and a Keeper named Melody arrives, their souls become entangled. Gospel’s seriousness melts and Melody’s fear of connection fades, but still—are Keepers allowed to fall in love? Now they must find a way out of the Leaving Room and be unafraid of their love. In a novel that takes place over four minutes, National Book Award finalist Amber McBride explores connection, memory, and hope in ways that are unforgettable and poignant.

Buy it: Bookshop | Amazon

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Happy International Nonbinary Day 2025!

Happy International Nonbinary Day! We’re celebrating as we do with great books starring nonbinary protagonists or love interests. For even more recs, check out past years’ posts!

Children’s

Robin’s Worlds by Rainie Oet (text) and Mathias Ball (illustration)

A nonbinary child is whisked off on a spellbinding adventure for their birthday in this dazzling tale of friendship, community, and self-love.

It’s Robin’s eighth birthday and it seems like everyone has forgotten. But things take a sudden turn when the Cat-Headed Wanderer shows up and sweeps Robin away to a magical party in a fantastical treehouse. It’s a joyful celebration full of song, dance, and newfound friends, but Robin soon realizes there’s another reason they’ve been brought there. To uncover that reason, all Robin needs to do is walk through the half-open door in the back—but what lies beyond?

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March 2024 Deal Announcements

Adult Fiction

Rosiee Thor and Kat Hillis‘s THE DEAD & BREAKFAST, a cozy mystery about two vampires who open a small town B&B and must prove their innocence when the local mayor shows up dead in their garden with something that looks suspiciously like puncture marks on his neck, to Michelle Vega at Berkley, in a pre-empt, in a two-book deal, by Saba Sulaiman at Talcott Notch Literary Services for Thor and Carrie Pestritto at Laura Dail Literary Agency for Hillis (world).

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