‘Gorgeous Gruesome Faces’ by Linda Cheng Cover Reveal

As of April 3 it was revealed via the author’s Twitter, the cover to the 2023 YA sapphic speculative thriller debut Gorgeous Gruesome Faces from Linda Cheng, slated for a Fall release with Fierce Reads!

Following a disgraced teen idol Sunny Lee, she comes face-to-face with the demons of her past and former bandmate in a workshop that brings about more questions than answers as competitors become injured and strangely mutilated, one by one.

Set in the cutthroat world of K-Pop, Cheng’s debut has been pitched as Yellowjackets meets She Is A Haunting, which also has a planned sequel.

Cheng has described her novel featuring elements of “terrible queer girls,” a “blood-soaked pop idol competition,” as well as “maybe the real treasure was the enemies we made along the way.”

Cover designer is Samira Iravani and letterer is David Milan.

After a shocking scandal that abruptly ended her teen popstar career, eighteen-year-old Sunny Lee spends her days longing for her former life and cyberstalking her ex-BFF and groupmate, Candie. The two were once inseparable, but that was then—before the tragedy and heartache they left in their wake.

In the here and now, Sunny is surprised to discover that Candie is attending a new K-pop workshop in her hometown. Candie might be there chasing stardom, but Sunny can’t resist the chance to join her and finally confront their traumatic history. Because she still can’t figure out what happened that horrible night when Mina, the third in their tight-knit trio, jumped to her death. Or if the dark and otherworldly secrets she and Candie were keeping had something to do with it . . .

But the workshop doesn’t bring the answers Sunny had hoped for, nor a happy reunion with Candie. Instead, Sunny finds herself haunted by ghostly visions while strange injuries start happening to her competitors—followed by even stranger mutilations to their bodies. In her race to survive, Sunny will have to expose just who is behind the carnage—and if Candie is out for blood once more!

Gorgeous Gruesome Faces by Linda Cheng is set to be released November 7, 2023!

City Of Shattered Light Claire Winn Cover Reveal

On February 22, Claire Winn revealed the cover to her upcoming Queer Sci-Fi debut titled City Of Shattered Light through Twitter.

The author has pitched her novel as “a neon-drenched cyberpunk YA” featuring two bisexual female leads. 17-year-old heiress Asa Almeida who saves her sister from an experiment that will leave her brain reprogrammed. Then she crash-lands onto the outlaw city of Requiem with a rogue A.I hunting her. In addition, gunslinger Riven Hawthorne decides pursuing the bounty on Asa’s head is exactly what she needs to claw her way up the ranks of the city’s underworld. As things get tense, the girls must decide whether they continue working on their own or team up.

Cover artist is Sanjay Charlton and designer is Jake Slavik. City Of Shattered Light is being released by Flux Books in October of 2021.

As darkness closes in on the city of shattered light, an heiress and an outlaw must decide whether to fend for themselves or fight for each other.

As heiress to a powerful tech empire, seventeen-year-old Asa Almeida strives to prove she’s more than her manipulative father’s shadow. But when he uploads her rebellious sister’s mind to an experimental brain, Asa will do anything to save her sister from reprogramming—including fleeing her predetermined future with her sister’s digitized mind in tow. With a bounty on her head and a rogue A.I. hunting her, Asa’s getaway ship crash-lands in the worst possible place: the neon-drenched outlaw paradise, Requiem.

Gun-slinging smuggler Riven Hawthorne is determined to claw her way up Requiem’s underworld hierarchy. A runaway rich girl is exactly the bounty Riven needs—until a nasty computer virus spreads in Asa’s wake, causing a citywide blackout and tech quarantine. To get the payout for Asa and save Requiem from the monster in its circuits, Riven must team up with her captive.

Riven breaks skulls the way Asa breaks circuits, but their opponent is unlike anything they’ve ever seen. The A.I. exploits the girls’ darkest memories and deepest secrets, threatening to shatter the fragile alliance they’re both depending on. As one of Requiem’s 154-hour nights grows darker, the girls must decide whether to fend for themselves or fight for each other before Riven’s city and Asa’s sister are snuffed out forever.

City Of Shattered Light by Claire Winn is set to be released October 19, 2021!

A Lesson In Vengeance by Victoria Lee Cover Reveal

On November 18, Victoria Lee revealed the cover to A Lesson In Vengeance via Tor. Her upcoming sapphic, dark academia horror novel has a Summer 2021 release!

The novel has been pitched as a “dark, twisty, atmospheric thriller about a boarding school haunted by its history of witchcraft and two girls dangerously close to digging up the past.”

Felicity Morrow returns to the Dalloway school, however she finds herself drawn to a new student by the name of Ellis Haley, a prodigy novelist. So, when Ellis asks for Felicity’s help in researching the history behind an intriguing group of students, Felicity will soon find herself digging up and facing a mysterious past.

Alongside the cover reveal was a Q&A where Lee discussed what she was bringing to dark academia as someone who has a Ph.D in dark academic literature, the importance of navigating Queer sexuality, and even writing her main female characters who are “selfish and shortsighted and obsessive and sometimes callous.”

Cover artist is Maggie Enterrios and designer is Regina Flath.

Felicity Morrow is back at Dalloway School.

Perched in the Catskill mountains, the centuries-old, ivy-covered campus was home until the tragic death of her girlfriend. Now, after a year away, she’s returned to graduate. She even has her old room in Godwin House, the exclusive dormitory rumored to be haunted by the spirits of five Dalloway students—girls some say were witches. The Dalloway Five all died mysteriously, one after another, right on Godwin grounds.

Witchcraft is woven into Dalloway’s history. The school doesn’t talk about it, but the students do. In secret rooms and shadowy corners, girls convene. And before her girlfriend died, Felicity was drawn to the dark. She’s determined to leave that behind her now; all Felicity wants is to focus on her senior thesis and graduate. But it’s hard when Dalloway’s occult history is everywhere. And when the new girl won’t let her forget.

It’s Ellis Haley’s first year at Dalloway, and she’s already amassed a loyal following. A prodigy novelist at seventeen, Ellis is a so-called “method writer.” She’s eccentric and brilliant, and Felicity can’t shake the pull she feels to her. So when Ellis asks Felicity for help researching the Dalloway Five for her second book, Felicity can’t say no. Given her history with the arcane, Felicity is the perfect resource.

And when history begins to repeat itself, Felicity will have to face the darkness in Dalloway–and in herself.

A Lesson In Vengeance by Victoria Lee is set to be released on August 3, 2021!

Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta Cover Reveal

As of September 14, Fierce Reads revealed the cover to Zoe Hana Mikuta’s 2021 sci-fi mecha debut novel titled Gearbreakers!

In this cyberpunk novel featuring 200-ft mecha deities and two girls ready to take them down from the inside out, the reader meets Sona and Eris who find themselves teaming up to destroy a tyrannical rule from within.

Hana Mikuta has pitched her novel as “enemies-to-lovers cyberpunk sapphics who like tattooing one another.”

In the blog post, she had this to say about the Gearbreakers cover, “the girls look amazing, and terrifying, and ready to take down a deity or two. Sona’s sword and cyborg eye, Eris’s cryogloves and signature welding goggles…I cannot accurately describe the degree of excitement and love I have for seeing two Asian girls on the cover of a YA science fiction novel.”

She continued to state that seeing her main character Sona on the cover who is half-Korean and half-white just like her “quite literally made [her] burst into tears of joy.”

The cover artist is Taj Francis.

Two girls on opposite sides of a war discover they’re fighting for a common purpose—and falling for each other—in Zoe Hana Mikuta’s high-octane debut Gearbreakers, perfect for fans of Pacific Rim, Pierce Brown’s Red Rising Saga, and Marie Lu’s Legend series.

We went past praying to deities and started to build them instead...

The shadow of Godolia’s tyrannical rule is spreading, aided by their giant mechanized weapons known as Windups. War and oppression are everyday constants for the people of the Badlands, who live under the thumb of their cruel Godolian overlords.

Eris Shindanai is a Gearbreaker, a brash young rebel who specializes in taking down Windups from the inside. When one of her missions goes awry and she finds herself in a Godolian prison, Eris meets Sona Steelcrest, a cybernetically enhanced Windup pilot. At first Eris sees Sona as her mortal enemy, but Sona has a secret: She has intentionally infiltrated the Windup program to destroy Godolia from within.

As the clock ticks down to their deadliest mission yet, a direct attack to end Godolia’s reign once and for all, Eris and Sona grow closer—as comrades, friends, and perhaps something more…

Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta is set to release June 29, 2021!

She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen Cover Reveal

On July 2, Kelly Quindlen revealed via her Twitter the cover to her upcoming sapphic sports contemporary, titled She Drives Me Crazy.

Its pitched as “hijinks, heartbreak, and gay fake-dating scheme for the ages…perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli and Casey McQuisten.”

A snarky basketball player and head cheerleader find themselves carpooling together, but Scottie can’t pass up a chance to get back at her ex-girlfriend. According to Quindlen, the novel will feature enemies-to-lovers and fake dating.

The cover artist is Steff Walthall and designer is Aurora Parlagreco.

Alongside the cover reveal, on July 7 Quindlen also had an Instagram Live with Walthall to discuss the novel, writing, and drawing.

After losing spectacularly to her ex-girlfriend in their first game since their break up, Scottie Zajac gets into a fender bender with the worst possible person: her nemesis, the incredibly beautiful and incredibly mean Irene Abraham.

Things only get worse when their nosey, do-gooder moms get involved and the girls are forced to carpool together until Irene’s car gets out of the shop.

Their bumpy start the only gets bumpier the more time they spend together. But when an opportunity presents itself for Scottie to get back at her toxic ex (and climb her school’s social ladder at the same time), she bribes Irene into playing along.

She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen is set to be released April 20, 2021!