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The Princess And The Fangirl

By Ashley Poston

Synopsis:

From the acclaimed author of Geekerella, this spin on The Prince and the Pauper is a perfect story for geek girls of every fandom. Movie star Jessica Stone can’t bear to pretend to love Starfield at yet another con—except her contract obligates her to do just that. She never dreamed she’d be playing Princess Amara for life, yet for better or worse, beloved Princess Amara has Jessica Stone’s face. But so does someone else . . . Imogen Lovelace is just another Starfield fan hitting up ExcelsiCon—except she happens to look an awful lot like Jessica Stone. So when Jess spots her doppelgänger, a brilliant idea pops into her head: Swap places! Jess can escape the spotlight for a few days, while Imogen can ditch her cruddy job and dodgy hotel room to see life beyond her dull hometown. Jess doesn’t anticipate actually liking Imogen’s life or the gorgeous non-famous girl who might be the person she needs to forget about her ex. And Imogen loves being Jess until she’s trapped in a paparazzi snafu and realizes fame isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. With the press poised to reveal their secrets, and an announcement about the sequel looming, both Jess and Imogen will have to stand up for the truth: That there is no such thing as a fake geek girl. That what you love matters. That fandom can, and should, let you be who you really are.

The Princess And The Fangirl is due to hit shelves on April 2, 2019.

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The Everlasting Rose 

By Dhonielle Clayton 

Synopsis

With a price on her head, the evil Queen Sophia out for blood, and no idea who to trust, Camellia Beaureguard, the former favorite Belle, must race against time to find the ailing Princess Charlotte, who has disappeared without a trace. Sophia's imperial forces will stop at nothing to keep Camille, her sister Edel, and her loyal guard, Rémy, from returning Charlotte to the palace and her rightful place as queen. With the help of an underground resistance movement called the Iron Ladies--a society that rejects beauty treatments entirely--and the backing of alternative newspaper the Spider's Web, Camille uses her powers, her connections, and her cunning to outwit her greatest nemesis, Sophia, and halt her attempt to restore peace to Orléans. But enemies lurk in the most unexpected places, forcing Camille to decide just how much she's willing to sacrifice to save her people.

The Everlasting Rose is due to hit shelves on March 5, 2019.

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Leigh Bardugo reveals cover for King of Scars Nikolai Lantsov has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in his country’s bloody civil war—and he intends to keep it that way. Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders, the young king must find a way to refill Ravka’s coffers, forge new alliances, and stop a rising threat to the once-great Grisha Army. Yet with every day a dark magic within him grows stronger, threatening to destroy all he has built. With the help of a young monk and a legendary Grisha Squaller, Nikolai will journey to the places in Ravka where the deepest magic survives to vanquish the terrible legacy inside him. He will risk everything to save his country and himself. But some secrets aren’t meant to stay buried—and some wounds aren’t meant to heal. It is set to be released on January 29th, 2019.

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The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy Felicity Montague is through with pretending she prefers society parties to books about bonesetting—or that she’s not smarter than most people she knows, or that she cares about anything more than her dream of becoming a doctor. Fresh off an accidentally whirlwind tour of Europe that she spent evading highwaymen and pirates with her brother Monty, Felicity has returned to England with one goal in mind—to enroll in medical school. However, her intellect and passion will never be enough in the eyes of the administrators, who see men as the sole guardians of science. But then a small window of hope opens. Felicity is offered a chance to break into this male-dominated world, although it might financially ruin her. For the last year, she has been depending on the generosity of Callum Doyle, a lovestruck suitor from Edinburgh. But then he had to go and propose marriage. Felicity can think of nothing less appealing than giving up her career aspirations to become someone’s wife. Luckily, a mysterious young woman will pay handsomely for help with a heist—not for jewels, but for stolen sea charts that belong to the British Navy. Despite the danger, Felicity’s tempted by the money, but she never expects to be swept up in a perilous quest that leads her from the German countryside to the promenades of Zurich to secrets lurking beneath the Atlantic.

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Smoke in the Sun Cover Reveal

EW revealed the official cover of Renée Ahdieh's Flame in the Mist sequel.

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Cassandra Clare announced she’s set to write a new adult fantasy series.

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First set photo of Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley as Todd Hewlitt and Viola Eade (via Ridley’s Facebook).

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Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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We only wanted to make the world better...

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The Handmaid’s Tale Trailer

Adapted from the classic novel by Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was formerly the United States. Facing environmental disasters and a plunging birthrate, Gilead is ruled by a twisted fundamentalism in its militarized ‘return to traditional values’. As one of the few remaining fertile women, Offred (Elisabeth Moss) is a Handmaid in the Commander’s household, one of the caste of women forced into sexual servitude as a last desperate attempt to repopulate the world. In this terrifying society, Offred must navigate between Commanders, their cruel Wives, domestic Marthas, and her fellow Handmaids – where anyone could be a spy for Gilead – all with one goal: to survive and find the daughter that was taken from her.

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Gwendoline Christie is joining Darkest Minds

Game of Thrones star Gwendoline Christie is joining the upcoming sci-fi thriller Darkest Minds, Fox’s adaptation of the YA trilogy by Alexandra Bracken.

Christie will play a bounty hunter who takes vast pleasure in her brutal job.

The film, also, stars  Amandla Stenberg and Mandy Moore. The movie will be Jennifer Yuh Nelson’s  live-action directorial debut. Stenberg is playing Ruby Daly, a 16-year-old with telekinetic powers.

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New Trailer For NBC's Midnight, Texas based on the series of novels of the same name by  Charlaine Harris

TV Show Synopsis:

http://www.nbc.com/midnight-texas?nbc=1

Welcome to a place where being normal is really quite strange. From the visionary director of Mr. Robot and based on the hit book series from the author behind HBO’s True Blood comes a journey into a remote Texas town where no one is who they seem. From vampires and witches to psychics and hit men, Midnight is a mysterious safe haven for those who are different. As the town members fight off outside pressures from rowdy biker gangs, ever-suspicious cops and their own dangerous pasts, they band together and form a strong and unlikely family.

Midnight Crossroad Synopsis:

Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town with many boarded-up windows and few full-time inhabitants, located at the crossing of Witch Light Road and Davy Road. It’s a pretty standard dried-up western town.

There’s a pawnshop (someone lives in the basement and is seen only at night). There’s a diner (people who are just passing through tend not to linger). And there’s new resident Manfred Bernardo, who thinks he’s found the perfect place to work in private (and who has secrets of his own).

Stop at the one traffic light in town, and everything looks normal. Stay awhile, and learn the truth...

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Download Brandon Sanderson’s The Way of Kings for Free on March 23rd and 24th

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Based on the series of novels of the same name by Stephen King. 

First The Dark Tower Poster

The Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, roams an Old West-like landscape where “the world has moved on” in pursuit of the man in black. Also searching for the fabled Dark Tower, in the hopes that reaching it will preserve his dying world.

The Dark Tower is coming to theaters on July 28, 2017.

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Jennifer Aniston to star in adaptation of YA novel Dumplin'

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What do you call the male version of a “Mary Sue”?

The protagonist.