An Award from TikTok

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Cherie Lampley
July 07, 2024

Good afternoon!

We are at the close of the 4th of July weekend. Hopefully, we all ended up at a cookout, or did some cooking out on our own, saw some fireworks, got some reading in, and watched some movies. Or maybe that was just me.

Today, we’ll get into how there are Booktok awards, read some articles about how Romantasy is fueling publishing right now, and look back to see what book was published on this date.

TikTok Book Awards

I’m gonna be honest. I had no idea the TikTok Book Awards even existed. Well, they do! This is the second annual edition, and they have released their shortlist. Here are some of the nominees:

Book of the Year (UK & Ireland)

Book of the Year (International)

Based in the UK & Ireland, voting is open until July 14, and winners will be announced on July 25.

Book News

  • Why the Gutenberg Bible is relevant 500 years after printing (Jacksonville Journal-Courier)

  • All upcoming Star Wars books and comics for July 2024 (Dorkside)

  • Book Bans Are on the Rise. But Fear of Fiction Is Nothing New (NY Times)

  • Read Julie Soto's ‘Not Another Love Song’ Excerpt (Cosmopolitan)

  • Review: Walmart Gets Spicy (In More Ways Than One) With BookTok-Inspired Hot Sauce Set (Mashed)

  • Who Are All These 20-Somethings Buying an Amazon Kindle? BookTokkers (WSJ $)

  • Celebrate Caitlin Clark's history rookie season with our book! (IndyStar)

  • Universal Moves Up ‘Wicked’ Release Date (Animation World Network)

  • Top Romantasy Books Fuel Sales Boom as Sex, Dragons Drive $610M Market (Bloomberg $) 

  • What books will Obama pick for his 2024 summer reading list? (The Washington Post)

  • One BookTok Author Sold More Books This Year Than The Top 10 New Books Combined (Forbes)

  • A Bill Gates-Recommended Read Is The Bestselling Book Of The Year So Far (Forbes)

  • Young adults are driving growth in book sales, says Barnes & Noble CEO (CNBC YouTube)

  • Romance Bookstores Are Booming, Dishing ‘All the Hot Stuff You Can Imagine’ (NY Times)

On This Day

Book Title: The Heart of Betrayal (Book 2 in The Remnant Chronicles)
Author: Mary E. Pearson
Release Date: July 7th, 2015

To not spoil, here is a blurb from the first book in the series

The Kingdom of Morrighan is steeped in tradition and the stories of a bygone world, but some traditions Lia can’t abide. Like having to marry someone she’s never met to secure a political alliance.

Fed up and ready for a new life, Lia escapes to a distant village on the morning of her wedding. She settles in among the common folk, intrigued when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive―and unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her. Deceptions swirl and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous secrets―secrets that may unravel her world―even as she feels herself falling in love.

The Kiss of Deception is the first book in Mary E. Pearson's New York Times bestselling young adult fantasy series Remnant Chronicles. The adventure continues in the New York Times bestseller, The Heart of Betrayal, and comes to an epic conclusion in The Beauty of Darkness.

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