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Why do people love paranormal novels? Um, the ghosts, aliens and surprising but sweet intergalactic romances, of course! But these elements alone don't an amazing book make --- if the characters aren't realistic, then boom! All believability, all reader investment, goes out the window. Below, Brigid Kemmerer --- author of the Elemental series and THICKER THAN WATER --- shares how she adds some normality to her paranormal books, making those cool out-of-the-ordinary elements shine all the brighter.

Brigid Kemmerer

Brigid Kemmerer is the author of the YALSA-nominated Elemental series, which Kirkus Reviews calls “refreshingly human paranormal romance” and School Library Journal describes as “a new take on the supernatural genre.” The story of these four gifted teenage boys spans five novels and three e-novellas.

December 29, 2015

The following are lists of books releasing the weeks of December 28th and January 4th that we think will be of interest to Bookreporter.com readers.

Florence King

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

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Florence King

—Library Journal

—Sunday Express (UK)

—The Times (UK)

—The Record (UK)

—Alyson Richman, internationally bestselling author of THE LOST WIFE and THE GARDEN OF LETTERS

—Beatriz Williams, author of A HUNDRED SUMMERS