The Bronx Book Festival 2025

TODAY!!! Hello, NYC! It's a beautiful day, perfect for a book festival! Come see me and lots of other amazing authors at The Bronx Book Festival in Fordham Plaza!

Prix Babelio 2025

Magnifique nouvelle!!! The French edition of The Spellshop, La Petite Boutique de Sortilèges, won the Prix Babelio 2025 (like a French Goodreads Choice Award) in the Imaginaire (SFF) category! Merci beaucoup to Babelio, my French publisher Bragelonne, the translator Clémentine Curie, and the wonderful French readers who voted for it! And félicitations to all the other incredible nominees! 

https://www.babelio.com/prix-babelio?categorie=7

 

Second Week!!!

Eeeeeep!!! Second week on the NYT paperback list!!! 

https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2025/06/29/trade-fiction-paperback/

Finished Copy of THE ENCHANTED GREENHOUSE

Look what arrived!!! A finished copy of THE ENCHANTED GREENHOUSE!!! *faints*

THE ENCHANTED GREENHOUSE Book Tour

BOOK TOUR!!! I'm super excited to announce that the lovely folks at Bramble are sending me on book tour for THE ENCHANTED GREENHOUSE, starting with my launch event at B&N Union Square in NYC on July 15 and then heading to West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Utah, and California! All events are ticketed, so reserve your tickets now! 

http://sarahbethdurst.com/appearances.htm

THE ENCHANTED GREENHOUSE Sneak Peek!

Sneak Peek at THE ENCHANTED GREENHOUSE!!! Reactor magazine has posted the first two chapters and will continue posting two more chapters every week for four weeks, leading up to pub day on July 15! Eight chapters in all! Happy reading! 

https://reactormag.com/excerpts-the-enchanted-greenhouse-by-sarah-beth-durst-chapters-1-and-2/

#1 LibraryReads Pick for July!

I'm thrilled and honored to share that THE ENCHANTED GREENHOUSE was selected as the #1 LibraryReads Pick for July!!! I've said it before and I'll say it again, librarians are the absolute BEST!!! Thank you so much for all the love you've shown the Spellshop books! 

https://libraryreads.org

THE SPELLSHOP paperback is a New York Times, USA Today, and Indie Bestseller!!!

I just got a call from my editor… The paperback edition of THE SPELLSHOP is a New York Times bestseller (#10), a USA Today bestseller (#10), and an Indie bestseller (#16)!!! Thank you all so incredibly much!!! I never dreamed the paperback would list, and I am so very grateful to all the amazing readers who embraced this cozy book and made the impossible possible! 

https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2025/06/22/trade-fiction-paperback/

THE SPELLSHOP Hungarian Book Birthday!

Happy book birthday to Bűbájok Boltja, the Hungarian edition of The Spellshop! Thanks so much to the Hungarian publisher Agave Könyvek and the translator Németh Luca Anna for creating this gorgeous edition!  Look at those spredges!!! 

https://agavekonyvek.hu/konyv/fantasy/bubajok-boltja

THE ENCHANTED GREENHOUSE is an Indie Next Pick!!!

Thank you, independent booksellers!!! I'm so thrilled, honored, and grateful that THE ENCHANTED GREENHOUSE has been selected as an Indie Next Pick for July by the American Booksellers Association! Yayyyyy!!! 

https://www.bookweb.org/sites/default/files/diy/INL-letter-July.pdf