Tell Me Something Tuesday: Debut Authors/New to Me Authors. What Books Have You Read Lately by New Authors That You Want to Read More From?

Tell Me Something Tuesday is a weekly discussion post on Rainy Day Ramblings, where the blog's owner Heidi discusses a wide range of topics from books to blogging. Weigh in and join the conversation by adding your thoughts in the comments. If you want to do your own post, grab the question and answer it on your blog.

Here is what is on deck this week:

DEBUT AUTHORS/NEW TO ME AUTHORS. WHAT BOOKS HAVE YOU READ LATELY BY NEW AUTHORS THAT YOU WANT TO READ MORE FROM?

Confession: I'm very much a "book reader" as opposed to an "author reader". Apart from a few classic thriller writers (Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen, John Dickson Carr/Carter Dickson/Carr Dickson and Rex Stout) my only modern go-to-author used to be Christopher Pike (here is the blog page I set up for him), because I love his crazy plots 😂. Except for the authors I have an ongoing blogger/writer relationship with, I wasn't going steady with any, and I rarely did read more than one book by the same author (series aside, of course). But lately (does "during the latest three years" qualifies as "lately"? 😄), I've read a handful of books that put their authors on my radar. In strictly alphabetical order...

A Tennant gif? How...Ood 😂 (...yes, non-Whovians, Ood are a thing LOL. Or better, an alien people)

EDWARD AUBRY

After reading his adult (but teen-friendly) sci-fi book Unhappenings in 2016 (it had come out the year before though), I fell for his complex worlds. His storytelling keeps getting better, he's big on quirky but relatable female characters with a strong spine, and the mix of sci-fi and fantasy in his ongoing Mayhem Wave series is enthralling. I'm sold on his future books.

ILSA J. BICK

Seriously, WHY IS THIS WOMAN SO UNDERRATED? Her metafiction/multiverse/horror/supernatural Dark Passages duology (mature YA) blew me away. OK, not a series for everyone, I'll admit. Another author I first tried in 2016, and now I want to read everything she's written (except for Drowning Instinct, because a relationship between a teen girl and an adult man is not something I can stomach, whatever the book message is).

PARKER PEEVYHOUSE

I only read her 2016 YA sci-fi debut Where Futures End this year, and I think she's a promising author (story-wise) with a flair for evocative writing. I'm very much looking forward to her second book, The Echo Room (coming out in September).

C.W. SNYDER

I really enjoyed his dark afterlife/fantasy, Alice-in-Wonderland inspired debut Child of Nod (mature YA/NA, up to adult), though he put so much on the plate, he set my head spinning. Apart from this ongoing series (Book 2 comes out on November) he often drops plot hints of his future releases on Twitter, and they sound so really amazing.

NOVA REN SUMA

In 2016, again (seriously, what's with the year?), I fell in love with her contemporary/supernatural fourth book, The Walls Around Us (YA). The story was awesome on so many counts, plus THE WRITING. Man, the writing. I loved how evocative it was without being purple. Since then, I've read two more books by her, both this year, and I plaud the way she writes female characters, as damaged as they can be - with compassion and understanding. She's become an auto-buy author for me, which is almost unprecedented...

KALI WALLACE

Last year I read her 2016 (ha!) YA afterlife/horror/supernatural debut Shallow Graves, and I loved it. Especially since she was able to have me connect with the main character (a bisexual girl and aspiring astronaut murdered at 17, who comes back as a peculiar undead "thing"), and her feminist commentary was spot-on. Plus her writing creeps on you while you're not even noticing.

E.S. WESLEY
(who at present has a MG series coming out under the name SEAN EASLEY)

Part sci-fi, part urban fantasy, with a couple of leads who get under your skin, Wesley's YA debut The Outs (2017) weaves tridimensional, diverse characters, a breathtaking story and a heartwarming friendship (though teetering on the verge of potential romance). Right now, Wesley is putting forth a MG series (duology?) for Simon&Schuster (while The Outs was published by Curiosity Quills). It sounds awesome, but since my blog is not geared towards straight-up MG, I'm waiting for him to come back to YA one day, and I'm sure I'll devour his books!

...maybe NOT this way...

Well, that's it for now. And if you're interested in participating, here is the TMST prompt list for June:

• June 5th: Summer picks 2018
• June 12th: Midyear update: favorite reads, goal progress etc. 
• June 19th: Cliffhangers: do they compel you to read more or steer you away?
• June 26th: What is worse: cliffhanger, abrupt ending or open ending?

As usual, lots of fun/thought-provoking prompts coming! My next TMST will be on June 12th. Wow, the first wrap-up of the year! How well have we fared? Did we meet our reading and (even more important) blogging resolutions?

Now tell me something...are there any debut authors, or authors you've only read the odd book so far, who have already made it (or very likely will) to your auto-buy list?