In this newsletter, you will find books releasing the weeks of March 19th and March 26th that we think will be of interest to Bookreporter.com readers, along with Bonus News, where we call out a contest, feature or review that we want to let you know about so you have it on your radar.
This week, we are calling attention to the debut of our Fiction Author Spotlight, which features new and upcoming fiction titles that don't fall into a specific genre category, like many of our other Author Spotlights do. Our first Fiction Author Spotlight title is WE OWN THE SKY by debut novelist Luke Allnutt, which releases on April 3rd. Thirty readers will win an advance copy of the book and share their comments on it. The deadline for your entries is Thursday, March 29th at noon ET.
Also, we are spotlighting THE BRIGHTEST SUN by Adrienne Benson, an illuminating debut following three women in sub-Saharan Africa as they search for home and family, which is now in stores.
Finally, we encourage you to enter our Word of Mouth and Sounding Off on Audio contests for an opportunity to win some fabulous hardcovers and audiobooks. And please be sure to vote in our latest poll about March paperbacks you are planning to read.
One of our Sounding Off on Audio prize books is Lisa Genova's EVERY NOTE PLAYED, read by Dennis Boutsikaris and Dagmara Dominczyk. We are excited to share with you an excerpt read by each of the narrators here and here (Lisa handpicked both clips), along with an interview with Lisa about the audiobook. We will have our review of the hardcover edition of EVERY NOTE PLAYED in Friday's Bookreporter.com Weekly Update newsletter.