So this isn’t an author debut, but an author trying a different age group when writing. Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute – Talia Hibbert This is grumpy/sunshine, has a plussize character, and characters who enjoy boardgames. I stumbled upon this author on Twitter and Playing for Keeps sounds like everything I need in a book. I’m not always good at knowing when a book is an author’s debut, so I definitely had to research this post a bit more, but here are ten 2023 debuts I’m excited about! This week’s topic is 2023 Debut Books I’m Excited About.

This bookish meme was hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, and has been going since June 2010! Since January 2018 Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Sure to appeal to readers of Helen Hoang and Jen DeLuca, Amber Roberts’s Text Appeal celebrates women in STEM, friends becoming lovers, and finding lasting love in the digital age.We have been having fun with Top Ten Tuesday, so we decided we will do one every week. But as Lark and Toby grow closer, she finds herself with a decision to make: tell Toby she’s a sex worker-and try to forget the anonymous client who has her struggling to separate work from real feelings-or keep the secrets that are piling up in her inbox. Still, she needs the money, and after a few (embarrassing and hilarious) false starts, she actually starts to like sexting-especially with one particularly charming and nerdy client who keeps popping up in her DMs. How will she explain how she’s earning a living-especially to Toby, her good friend and longtime hopeless crush? She's all about sex positivity, but carrying out sexual fantasies-even digitally and anonymously-with complete strangers is daunting.

When a friend suggests text message–based sex work as a stopgap between jobs, Lark is dubious. Before she can recover, her coworkers jump in to steal the account, leaving Lark jobless and broke. But her dream job quickly becomes a nightmare when she accidentally projects a scandalous (and completely unsolicited) picture from her phone onto the screen during a presentation. STEM gets steamy when a coder takes up sexting to pay the bills in this daring debut novel, perfect for fans of Olivia Dade and Kate Stayman-London.Īs the only woman programmer at her firm, Lark is thrilled to land an account for a huge client.

Text Appeal by Amber Roberts