Books
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SAMANTHA SPÜK: PARANORMAL WEDDING PLANNER
from Saga Press, releasing on June 2, 2026
Aleese Lin’s delightful, spooky—or Spük-y?—contemporary romance debut is perfect for fans of Legends & Lattes and Netflix’s Wednesday.
Samantha Spük is your go-to wedding planner, be it for werewolf, vampire, or fae!
...even if that's the last thing she would’ve imagined. Samantha “Sabby” Spük has spent her life trying to escape her family’s legacy of supernatural chaos. She’s finally graduated and landed a nice, normal 9–5 at a New York accounting firm. But then she gets the call: Grandma Rose is gone, and Sabby has been named executor of her (ahem, magically binding) will.
Now Sabby is stuck in her dreaded hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, taking on odd jobs—some very odd, like wedding planning for not-so-human locals—until she can sell the family home. At least this means a date with Hanry, the mysterious hottie Sabby meets in the neighborhood graveyard. With help from Hanry, a talking-head sidekick, and a manic pixie assistant, Sabby might pull these weddings off in time to salvage her accounting career…but is she ready to say goodbye to her paranormal one?
Coming from Saga Press (imprint of Simon & Schuster) JUNE 2, 2026 and available in a store near you!
ONWARD: Climate Fiction to Inspire Hope
from Charlesbridge, releasing February 22, 2026
Nora Shalaway Carpenter (Edited by), Erin Entrada Kelly (Author), Gloria Muñoz (Author), Jeff Zentner (Author), Karina Iceberg (Author), Padma Venkatraman (Author), Aleese Lin (Author), Anuradha D. Rajurkar (Author), Xelena González (Author), Aya de Leon (Author), M. Garcia Peña (Author), Kim Johnson (Author), Sarah Aronson (Author), Heather Dean Brewer (Author), Rin Chupeco (Author)
A collection of 16 remarkable short stories for aspiring teen activists centered on the climate crisis, highlighting how small actions can make Earth sustainable against climate change.
This anthology of speculative, dystopian, and contemporary realistic fiction is packed with fascinating characters and settings that illuminate current and possible changes to our planet and how humanity responds.
A few tales:
Shayta cares for a tiny green plant in a futuristic world where Earth has become a barren, over-farmed landscape fraught with dirt storms.
Hana and her father travel by catamaran to the farthest place from land in the entire world—only to discover a giant, floating carcass of trash and a few other surprises. (Pssst…. that’s mine!)
William and his family want to protect an endangered fish from a potential dam on a river that’s flowed through their land for generations . . .
Available as hardback or eBook!