New-to-me authors read in 2018
Ah, the TBR. We all have our huge to-be-read piles. I’ve always felt that anyone giving my books a chance has done so because they’re kind enough to pull a new-to-them author’s book out of their pile, and now I’m very aware of doing the same, when deciding my next read. Many of them on this list are not new authors, and come highly recommended by friends, so the qualifier is “new to me.” Warning: this strategy opens up worlds of beauty; it does not reduce the number of books to be read.
Here are my new-to-me authors in 2018: (Full books/novellas only, and those I did not help publish. Does not include new-to-me authors in anthologies, short stories online, fanfic, zines, comics anthologies. I have not been documenting those as precisely, ugh.)
Mia Hopkins
Sarah Wendell
Talia Hibbert
Charlotte Stein
Jackie Lau
Jasmine Guillory
Elizabeth Acevedo
Kate Clayborn
Hulyen
Cecil Wilde
Sandhya Menon
Katrina Jackson
Helen Hoang
C.B. Lee
Aisha Malik
Nyrae Dawn
Cat Sebastian
Angel C. Aquino
Nicola Davidson
Sherry Thomas
Ruby Lang
Elise Estrella
Lara Madrid
Chace Verity
Tiffany Reisz
Ibi Zoboi
Naima Simone
Therese Beharrie
Reese Ryan
Zoey Castile
