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Amy Reed Fiction

YA Author of The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World, Our Stories, Our Voices, The Nowhere Girls and other books.

THE BOY AND GIRL WHO BROKE THE WORLD is out in THREE MONTHS!

April 8, 2019 By AmyReed Leave a Comment

Hello!

My new book THE BOY AND GIRL WHO BROKE THE WORLD is officially out in just three months, on July 9! I would be incredibly honored and grateful if you’d help spread the world and pre-order a copy (and maybe throw in the new paperback of THE NOWHERE GIRLS while you’re at it). Pre-orders are a really powerful way to support a book and to help it get attention from booksellers.

Great news! BOY AND GIRL is available for pre-order from all your favorite online places to get books:

– Malaprop’s (my favorite local indie bookstore in Asheville, NC)
– Indie Bound
– Barnes and Noble
– Books-a-Million
– Simon & Schuster
– Amazon

Writing this book kept my heart from breaking over the last couple very difficult years. It’s about lovable weirdos, the healing power of friendship, and finding hope even when the world is falling apart.

This book is also special to me because I allowed myself to get a little…weird with it. As a teen, I was obsessed with Tom Robbins and his quirky, warmhearted, and surreal take on the Pacific Northwest where I grew up. This book, in some ways, is my humble attempt to honor that lineage. I’ve always been a huge fan of authors who integrate surreal and magical elements into their realism, and I let myself have a lot of fun with this one. Because what’s more fun than the end of the world, right?

Below you will find the official book description and a lovely blurb from one of my favorite YA authors. Thanks for all your support over the years, and I hope you love this book as much as I loved writing it.

xo

Amy

THE BOY AND GIRL WHO BROKE THE WORLD

The Astonishing Color of After meets Eleanor & Park in this breathtaking and beautifully surreal story about a friendship between two teens that just might shake the earth around them or at the very least make them face some painful truths about the nature of what drives us apart…and what brings us together.

Billy Sloat and Lydia Lemon don’t have much in common, unless you count growing up on the same (wrong) side of the tracks, the lack of a mother, and a persistent loneliness that has inspired creative coping mechanisms.

When the lives of these two loners are thrust together, Lydia’s cynicism is met with Billy’s sincere optimism, and both begin to question their own outlook on life. On top of that, weird happenings including an impossible tornado and an all-consuming fog are cropping up around them—maybe even because of them. And as the two grow closer and confront bigger truths about their pasts, they must also deal with such inconveniences as a narcissistic rock star, a war between unicorns and dragons, and eventually, of course, the apocalypse.

With a unique mix of raw emotion, humor, and heart, the surreal plotline pulls readers through an epic exploration of how caring for others makes us vulnerable—and how utterly pointless life would be if we didn’t.

The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World is gritty, gutsy, and ferociously strange. Amy Reed offers us a surreal yet oddly familiar world teetering on the edge of destruction and offers hopeful and inventive ways to survive the pain and salvage our dreams. This story is powerful and unique, and I envied its wild and irreverent vision to pieces. (Nova Ren Suma, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Walls Around Us)

Oh, and another cool thing! The paperback edition of THE NOWHERE GIRLS is coming out on the same day, with a GORGEOUS new cover! You can go ahead and throw that in your virtual shopping cart too 🙂

 

 

Filed Under: The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World, The Nowhere Girls Tagged With: amy reed, contemporary YA, magical realism, new release, pre-order, The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World, The Nowhere Girls, tom robbins, YA Fiction

My new book UNFORGIVABLE is out TODAY!

May 3, 2016 By AmyReed Leave a Comment

Unforgivable Book CoverHello! I am so excited to share the news that my new book, UNFORGIVABLE, releases today! It is the sequel to INVINCIBLE (which also releases today in paperback), and starts right where the first book left us at a very nasty cliffhanger. You’ll find out what happens to Evie and Marcus, and this time it will be from Marcus’s point of view.

UNFORGIVABLE is my seventh book, and it’s my first written entirely from a boy’s perspective. It tells the story of Marcus as he tries to sort through the wreckage of his relationship with Evie, and as he finally faces the ghosts from his own past that he’s tried so desperately to outrun. It’s dramatic, romantic, and at times very dark, but with enough hope and transformation to make it all worth it. I promise! [Read more…] about My new book UNFORGIVABLE is out TODAY!

Filed Under: Invincible, Unforgivable Tagged With: amber smith, amy reed, INVINCIBLE, new release, robin constantine, Unforgivable

Spring/Summer Book Tour and Pre-Order Campaign

March 15, 2016 By AmyReed Leave a Comment


UNFORGIVABLE, the sequel to INVINCIBLE, comes out May 3, which means I’m going to be busy traveling to some of my favorite indie bookstores for events with some of my YA author pals. Hopefully I’m coming to a town near you! Here’s the schedule so far: [Read more…] about Spring/Summer Book Tour and Pre-Order Campaign

Filed Under: Unforgivable Tagged With: amber smith, amy reed, book tour, https://www.amyreedfiction.com/unforgivable/, INVINCIBLE, megan miranda, megan shepherd, new release, pre-order campaign, robin constantine, Unforgivable

DAMAGED is out TODAY!!!

October 14, 2014 By AmyReed Leave a Comment

Damaged book cover

Hello friends, family, and fans,

I am so incredibly excited to tell you that my new book DAMAGED comes out TODAY!

I started writing it three summers ago while on a cross-country road trip with my husband, Brian, and just barely pregnant with my daughter Elouise. Kinsey and Hunter, the main characters in DAMAGED, visit many of the same places we came across on our route, and I hope you will take the journey with them.

Part ghost story, part epic road trip, and part reluctant love story, DAMAGED offers readers another piercing, poignant story full of emotional truth from author Amy Reed.

After Kinsey’s best friend Camille dies in a car accident during which Kinsey was driving, Kinsey shuts down, deciding that numbness is far better than mourning. All she wants during the last few weeks of high school is to be left alone, but Camille’s mysterious boyfriend, Hunter–who was also in the car that night–has different ideas.

Despite all of Kinsey’s efforts, she can’t outrun Camille, who begins haunting her dreams. Sleep deprived and on the verge of losing it, Kinsey runs away with Hunter to San Francisco. As they drive across the country, trying to escape both the ghost of Camille and their own deep fears, Kinsey questions all she once believed about her friendship with Camille. Hunter, meanwhile, falls into a spiral of alcoholism, anger, and self-loathing. Ultimately, Kinsey and Hunter must come to terms with what they’ve lost and accept that they can’t outrun pain.

Publisher’s Weekly called DAMAGED a “thoughtful portrait of survivor’s guilt and road trip story about taking the risk of shedding one’s past,” and Kirkus called it “haunting, in more ways than one.” School Library Journal said it is a “striking novel” that offers a “well-plotted and excellently written meditation on grief, loss, and the power of new beginnings.”

I am honored to share my book with you, and I hope you enjoy it. You can purchase it at your local bookstore or online at places like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Simon & Schuster, my local independent bookstore Malaprop’s, and many other retailers. If your local bookstore doesn’t have it, please request that they order it!

Here are some other things you can do to help your favorite authors:

  • Buy our books as close to the release date as possible
  • Request that your local library carry our books
  • Share news about our books on social media like Facebook and Twitter
  • Leave positive reviews on Amazon and Goodreads
  • Share the news by good old fashioned word of mouth

I would be grateful if you’d do any of these things to help spread the word about DAMAGED. It is a great joy to write books for you all. Thank you so much for your support.

Hugs,
Amy

Filed Under: Damaged Tagged With: amy reed, Damaged, new release

INVINCIBLE cover reveal!!!

October 6, 2014 By AmyReed 1 Comment

I am so incredibly excited to finally show you the cover for INVINCIBLE, the first book in my two-book series with Katherine Tegen/Harper Collins (the same folks who do Veronica Roth’s DIVERGENT series, among other amazing books).

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Live hard. Love hard. Don’t look back.

Evie is living on borrowed time. She was diagnosed with terminal cancer several months ago and told that by now she’d be dead. Evie is grateful for every extra day she gets, but she knows that soon this disease will kill her. Until, miraculously, she may have a second chance to live.

All Evie had wanted was her life back, but now that she has it, she feels like there’s no place for her in it—at least, not for the girl she is now. Her friends and her parents still see her as Cancer Girl, and her boyfriend’s constant, doting attention is suddenly nothing short of suffocating.

Then Evie meets Marcus. She knows that he’s trouble, but she can’t help falling for him. Being near him makes her feel truly, fully alive. It’s better than a drug. His kiss makes her feel invincible—but she may be at the beginning of the biggest free fall of her life.

To be Released April 28, 2015

Isn’t it beeeyoooootiful?! I can’t wait for you to read it.

Hugs,

Amy

(P.S. Don’t forget DAMAGED is coming out NEXT WEEK!)

Filed Under: Invincible Tagged With: amy reed, cover reveal, INVINCIBLE, new release

NEWS! DAMAGED release, INVINCIBLE cover reveal, Asheville book signing

October 1, 2014 By AmyReed Leave a Comment

Hey y’all! (I live in North Carolina now, so I get to say “y’all”).

I am so excited that DAMAGED comes out in TWO WEEKS! On October 14th, it will be released into the world and I couldn’t be prouder. (Pre-order to make sure you get it on release day). I have tons of exciting guest posts and special online events coming up, so make sure you follow me on Twitter to get all the updates.

Damaged book cover

If you’re in the Asheville, NC area, I’ll be hanging out at Malaprop’s Bookstore on Thursday, November 6th, from 3:00 to 5:00 pm to sign some books. Stop by to say hi and pick up a signed copy of DAMAGED or one of my other books. They’ll have them all in stock. I would love to meet you!

It seems crazy to be talking about a book that comes out in April of next year, but I’ve got exciting news about INVINCIBLE too. In less than a week, on Monday, October 6th, at exactly 8:00 pm EST (5:00 PST), I will be revealing the cover RIGHT HERE on this website! It is nothing like my other covers, and it is so freaking beautiful I cried a little when I first saw it. I’m serious, it’s that awesome. I’ll also be telling you a little more about the story, but until then, here’s a little teaser:

INVINCIBLE is book one of a two-book series, pitched as Go Ask Alice meets The Fault in Our Stars, about a teenage girl who survives a terminal cancer diagnosis, only to get trapped in the deadly spiral of addiction, and the boy who would do anything to save her.

Intrigued?

 

Filed Under: Damaged, Invincible Tagged With: cover reveal, Damaged, go ask alice, INVINCIBLE, malaprop's, new release, the fault in our stars

UPDATE: DAMAGED Release Date and Pre-Order Info

March 7, 2014 By AmyReed Leave a Comment

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Good News!

My new book DAMAGED finally has an official release date: October 14, 2014

And it’s available for pre-order at these fine retailers:

  • Amazon
  • Powell’s
  • Books-a-Million

And don’t forget to add it to your Goodreads to-read list 🙂

Filed Under: Damaged Tagged With: amy reed, Damaged, new release

e-Galley of OVER YOU now available for review (and pre-order)!

November 13, 2012 By AmyReed 1 Comment

My next book,OVER YOU, doesn’t come out until June 2013, but e-Galleys are now available for reviewers, bloggers, librarians, and other industry-type folks! Here’s the link

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If you’re holding out for a physical ARC, you’ll have to wait a bit longer. You can send your request with this form and it will be forwarded along to my publisher.

Readers can also pre-order it here

Hooray!

Filed Under: Over You Tagged With: amy reed, contemporary YA, new release, Over You

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