AU welcomes Jami Attenberg to our roster 📚
Jami Attenberg is the New York Times bestselling author of ten books, including The Middlesteins, All Grown Up, A Reason to See You Again, and the memoir I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home. Her work often explores family dynamics, identity, creativity, and personal reinvention, earning her the nickname “the poet laureate of difficult families” from Kirkus. She has been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and the St. Francis College Literary Prize, and was twice longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Attenberg is also the creator of #1000wordsofsummer, the widely embraced online writing accountability project that inspired the USA Today bestseller 1000 Words: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round. In addition to her fiction and nonfiction, she has written for publications including The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and The Guardian. A sought-after speaker and workshop leader, her work has been translated into sixteen languages and continues to resonate with readers and writers around the world.
Author Highlight of The Week: James Edward Mills ✨📚
James Edward Mills is an award-winning journalist, media producer, and environmental educator specializing in outdoor recreation, conservation, and social justice. A 2014 Banff Centre fellow and recipient of the Paul K. Petzoldt Award for Environmental Education, he is the author of ‘The Adventure Gap’, named by Outside Magazine as one of the most influential outdoor books of the decade, and co-producer of the documentary ‘An American Ascent’. His work highlights diversity and inclusion in the outdoors, including his current project ‘Unhidden’, and he has contributed to major public radio programs while also being recognized as a Yosemite National Park Centennial Ambassador.
Shelby Van Pelt's sensational 'Remarkably Bright Creatures' film adaptation is now streaming on Netflix.
'Remarkably Bright Creatures' is a New York Times bestseller, a Read With Jenna book club pick, and was the Winner of the 2023 McLaughlin-Esstman-Stearns First Novel Prize awarded by The Writer's Center. This book has captivated so many readers - including our whole team at AU - with it's heart warming charm. We'll all be watching this weekend.
Congratulations, Shelby, on getting to see your story come to life!
I am so excited to share that I will be at Bay City State Theatre for “An Evening With Jean Kwok” (hey, that’s me! 😉👋) presented by the @baycountylibrarysystem ! This is a FREE event but make sure to reserve your ticket through their website. Can’t wait to see you all there!
⏰ Tuesday, May 12 @ 7 PM
📍 Bay City State Theatre | 913 Washington Ave
Bay City, MI 48708
#JeanKwok #Dominion #authortalk #GoGreatLakesBay @gogreatlakesbay
AU welcomes Helen Whybrow to our roster 📚
Helen Whybrow is an award-winning nonfiction author whose works explore pastoral life, environmental stewardship, and human relationships with land and community. Her 2025 book The Salt Stones, about the emotional and historical dimensions of shepherding, was longlisted for the National Book Award, named a Best Book of 2025 by The New Yorker, NPR/Fresh Air, and Esquire, and was a finalist for both the New England Book Award and the Vermont Book Award; it has been translated into four languages. Her earlier books include Dead Reckoning (W. W. Norton, 2001), an anthology of adventure writing from the Age of Exploration, and A Man Apart (Chelsea Green, 2015), a co-authored biography of her mentor. Across her writing, Whybrow engages themes of pastoralism, ecology, and the cultural and emotional ties between people and the natural world.
We're honored to work with you, @helen_whybrow
Happy Pub Day! Some great new summer reads out today. A little bit of everything in this mix. Congrats to Jess Cannon, Brian Lee Young, Kristy Woodson Harvey, and Stephanie Dray 🎉
✨ HEADLINING AUTHORS ✨
We are beyond thrilled to welcome the powerhouse duo behind some of the most beloved romance novels of our time to Lore & Luster 💕
@christinalauren , the combined pen name of best friends and long-time writing partners Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, are the #1 internationally bestselling coauthors of twenty New York Times bestselling novels, with their work published in over 30 languages.
From Love and Other Words and The Unhoneymooners to The True Love Experiment and Autoboyography, their stories have captured millions of readers around the world... and now they’re coming to Tacoma.
Their latest releases, The Paradise Problem and Tangled Up In You, are out now, and their upcoming novel The Romance Revival (2026) delivers an unforgettable second-chance love story where one life-altering accident gives a marriage the chance to begin again.
Join them Sunday for a designated signing in Room 317 from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, followed by a panel, From BookTok to Book Shelves: How Readers Are Shaping Literature Trends, from 2:30 - 3:30 PM in Panel Room 318.
‼️ Important Signing Info ‼️
- RSVP will be required to attend the signing.
- RSVPs are not open yet and will be released closer to the event (all at once).
- You may bring up to 1 books from home to get signed. All additional copies can be purchased VIA our onsite bookseller, Shelf Indulgence
- Photos and other signed memorabilia at discretion of author
- Full signing details + terms can be found on our website.
We would also like to take a moment to give @authorsunbound and Allie from their team a big shoutout! Thank you for making this process so seamless! Your team is the best ❤️
Author Highlight of The Week: Adib Khorram ✨📚
Adib Khorram is a queer Iranian-American author of books for readers of all ages. His critically acclaimed and award-winning novels for young readers include 'Darius the Great is Not Okay', 'Darius the Great Deserves Better', 'Kiss & Tell', 'The Breakup Lists', and 'One Word, Six Letters'. He is the author of three picture books: 'Seven Special Somethings: A Nowruz Story' (illustrated by Zainab Faidhi), 'Bijan Always Wins' (illustrated by Michelle Tran) and 'Tea is Love' (illustrated by Hanna Cha). He is also the author of USA Today Bestselling adult romances 'I’ll Have What He’s Having' and 'It Had To Be Him'.
