New Year, New Books! Happy 2025!!!

Happy New Year, everyone!!! I am very excited for 2025! I have 7 books coming out this year!! Two are brand-new, and five are new editions:

 

THE ENCHANTED GREENHOUSE is coming July 15 from Bramble. It's a cozy fantasy set in the same world as The Spellshop, about a librarian, a gardener, magical plants, honey cakes, and second chances. And the book will be hardcover with cool mint sprayed edges!

THE WARBLER is coming March 1 from Lake Union. It's book club fiction about three generations of women and how one person's choice can become another's curse. It is also about a woman who may or may not turn into a tree.

In the spring, there will be new trade-paperback editions of my epic fantasy trilogy, The Queens of Renthia, which is about bloodthirsty nature spirits and the queens who can control them. The first one, THE QUEEN OF BLOOD, will be out April 8. The second, THE RELUCTANT QUEEN, will be out May 6. And the third, THE QUEEN OF SORROW, will be out June 3. And they will all have brand-new gorgeous covers!

Also on June 3, the paperback of THE SPELLSHOP will be out in the world with lovely lavender sprayed edges! This is my cozy fantasy about a rogue librarian and her best friend, a sentient spider plant, who open a rather illegal spellshop.

And in the fall, on November 11, there will be a new edition of THE LOST! This is book club fiction about a woman trapped in a town full of only lost things and lost people. And I'm writing an all-new ending for it -- the ending I always meant for this book to have!

So that's what's coming from me in 2025! I can't wait to share all these stories with you! And I wish you all a wonderful and magical new year!

Hudson Booksellers picked THE SPELLSHOP as their Best Romantasy of 2024!

THE SPELLSHOP is at the airport! I just found out that Hudson Booksellers picked THE SPELLSHOP as their Best Romantasy of 2024, so I believe it's in Best Books of 2024 displays like this in airports all over! Thanks so much, Hudson Booksellers! I've never been so eager to hang out at the airport! 

https://www.hudsonbooksellers.com/best-books-2024

The Spellshop Collection Candles

Look what I just got in the mail! Officially-licensed THE SPELLSHOP candles!!! How cool is this?!? I'm ridiculously excited. They're made by From the Page, and they smell amazing! Kiela's Cottage is raspberry jam and lavender, Bryn's Bakeshop is cinnamon buns, and Caltrey is sea salt and wildflowers!

https://fromthepagecandles.com/collections/the-spellshop-collection

Happy Book Birthday to the Czech Edition of THE SPELLSHOP!

Today is the pub day for the Czech edition of THE SPELLSHOP!!! Look at this lovely cover with Kiela and Caz and their jam shop! Happy book birthday, Kramek s kouzly!

https://www.laser-books.cz/p/sarah-beth-durst-kramek-s-kouzly/

Well, I didn't win, but I'm quite thrilled about 5th place!!! Thanks so much to everyone who voted for THE SPELLSHOP!!! 

https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/readers-favorite-romantasy-books-2024

LovelyBooks Awards

So delighted and grateful that SPELLSHOP won 3rd place in the LovelyBooks Community Awards (Germany) for Best Book Cover!! I'm so happy to see Lulu Chen's gorgeous art honored like this! Her work is phenomenal, and it so perfectly captures the spirit of the book! Thank you, LovelyBooks! And congrats to Lulu! 

https://www.lovelybooks.de/community-award/preistraeger/15800459380/

THE SPELLSHOP is a Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist!

AHHHHHHHHH!!! THE SPELLSHOP made the Final Round of the Goodreads Choice Awards!!! I am floored! Thank you so much to everyone who voted! You're all the best! Huge congrats to all the other amazing finalists!

Final round voting is open now through Sunday (12/1)! https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/readers-favorite-romantasy-books-2024

NCTE 2024 Photos

Had a fantastic time at NCTE!!!

THE ENCHANTED GREENHOUSE NetGalley

Ahhhh!!! THE ENCHANTED GREENHOUSE is the 4th most requested book on NetGalley!!! 

https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/mostRequested

Signed Books

As the holiday season approaches, if you'd like a signed and personalized copy of THE SPELLSHOP for either yourself or as a gift, order from Books of Wonder before Dec 1, and I'll be delighted to sign one for you! 

https://booksofwonder.com/products/9781250333971?variant=41054635425834