I love being a part of the #debutcrew2024 📚

My debut picture book is coming in October 🤸🤸🏾‍♀️🤸

But for now it’s huge congratulations to the next five of us who are officially published authors 🤗

Here are our March releases 📚

📕GUS AND THE MISSING BOY
@troyhunterwriter @wakefieldpress

True crime buff Gus has always felt out of place in the world. His life is flipped on its head one day when he finds a missing persons website with a digitally aged picture of a missing boy who looks eerily like him. As he dives into the mystery, more questions are revealed than answers. And will the truth be too much to handle?

📘 KIN: FAMILY IN THE 21st CENTURY
@kamenevwrites @newsouthpublishin

Kin is an investigation into what influences us to have children and the new ways that have made parenthood possible. This highly researched book tackles the fight for parenthood with heart and historical precision.

📗 BIRDS OF A FEATHER
@rhianna.m.king @affirmpress

When Beth wins the lottery she decides to spend it on treating her grandmother, Elise – the only person she understands in her rambunctious, bohemian family. But instead of anything material, Elise wants Beth to help her track down her first love, Gerry. A funny, utterly charming novel about forbidden romance, second chances and the upsides of spontaneity.

📔 FOUR NIGHT STAND
@georgiamoorewriter @harpercollinsaustralia

Colleagues Jules and Cameron have a secret crush on each other but have never met in person. When thrown together away from the office they decide to have a conference fling. It’s risk-free and has a guaranteed amicable ending, but emotions are never predictable ...

📕KATIE GOES TO KL
@sumaytan.writes @penguinbooksaus @penguinbookssea

Katie Chen, 16, lives in Australia with her Malaysian father. When she goes back to Malaysia for her grandma’s funeral she discovers that her mother - long-thought-dead - is alive. Navigating KL’s underground music scene and the underlying tensions of a country she doesn’t understand, how far is Katie willing to go to find a place to belong?