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📖 STARGAZERS (Quill & Flame 2026)
📖 STARCATCHERS (2027)
📖 RAVENSPIRE (2028)
Lit Agent Lowenstein Associates
Rep: @kellimarshall_
🎥: @avawithacamera

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You’re looking for enthralling no-spice young adult books. We got you.

Calculated by @nova_mcbee_author - an enthralling series with nonstop action, sweeping settings, a love triangle that rivals Twilight (but ohhhhh so much deeper), and lines like this: “His eyes fall on my lips ‘Your lips shouldn’t remind me of betrayal.’ “

Icarus Flight School by @krissidallas - four famous teens chosen for a spy mission, tasked to infiltrate a network of teen terrorists. With flight simulators, laser, tag games, and dance club missions as training. Hilarious, twisty, and will have you turning pages like crazy,

The Stargazers by @avalaurengrayson four genius teens chosen for a space flight get sucked through a portal to an undiscovered planet. With a love triangle that is still making me crazy as I wait for book 2, hilarious moments brought to you by Milo, and a mystery that will have you guessing all the way to the last page. For all my Star Wars girls out there who need more space adventures, but with a fantasy feel, this is for you.

The Donor by Jennifer Dyer (me!). Enemy teen hackers get mixed up in a vicious, black market organ smuggling ring and realize they might soon become the commodity. With revenge, twists, and a cinnamon roll billionaire boy who gives us moments like this: when she targets him for revenge for her father’s death, he says: “I never felt like I lived until I met you…” and then he offers to give his❤️ to save her.

Which one will you read first?

I’m Jenn, and I write no-spice young adult books with witty banter, twisty plots, and fierce heroines who don’t quit until they save the day. Stay tuned for The Donor’s sequel coming Feb 2027! (And The Donor is under development as a vertical drama by @lumiviewapp )

Young adult books | hackers | kept me up late | thrillers | twists and turns | unexpected | reading young adult | thriller | no spice | twisty | psychopaths | organ smuggling | white hat hackers | gray hat hackers | hacktivism | books for teens | guy reads | Kindle Unlimited | audiobooks | martial arts | STEM GIRLS | medical research | heart condition | ghost organ protocol

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Life is always good when you’re with AMAZING friends! Cannot wait to read @avalaurengrayson book #TheStarGazers 😆🤓📚#BookLovers #morebookslessstress

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ready to travel to another planet? 🚀✨📚

join us saturday, october 24th from 11am–2pm for an author signing with ava lauren grayson, celebrating the stargazers, a YA space-fantasy adventure filled with magical portals, mysterious creatures, fae hunters, unexpected powers, secrets, and a little romance. 🌙🪐💫

free to attend | books will be available for purchase during the signing

email or call us to have a book signed for later pickup or shipped

perfect for readers who love a little sci-fi, a little magic, and heroines who aren’t afraid to kick some butt. 😉

visit our website for more details!

#smittenbookstore #avalaurengrayson #thestargazers #yafantasy #yascifi #downtownventura #authorsigning #romancebooks

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🗓️ LA Area Author Events 10/12 - 10/19 🗓️

We have a busy week ahead! I am heading to Vegas for Love n Vegas and am SO sad I will be missing out on so many good events here in LA over the weekend. I can’t wait to see everyone’s recaps from all the events going on. I hope everyone has a wonderful week!

** I MISSED TWO EVENTS:
10/14 CR Jane at B&N Americana at 6:30pm
10/16 Tessa Bailey and Susan Lee at B&N HB at 6pm

💭: Will you be attending any events this week?

#losangeles #authorevents #authorsigning #books

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First Sunday with my @icrossroads family and saw a few familiar faces. Thankful for friends and family who came out to support 🫶

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*Crash Out Corner*

Have you ever had a book be so good and you were so into it that you actually CRASH OUT?!

The Stargazers by @avalaurengrayson is the first book in The Stargazers series, and I was genuinely baffled that this was a debut novel, because it is that good... And OMG THAT ENDING?! Complete and total CRASH OUT.

My Review:
This book was so good, and I think will be one that I think about afterwards for a really long time. It felt like if the breakfast club were teens going to space and trying to work together. Julia (Mal from Descendants, the focused leader), Ky (Bender, the bad boy rebel with layers), Milo (Arnold from the Magic School Bus, out of his element and terrified), and Natalie (Dorothy Ann from The Magic School Bus/Amy Farrah Fowler from the Big Bang Theory, the know it all) are a truly unique cast of characters. The cliffhanger left me gasping and I need book two immediately.

4 1/2 💜’s.

#crashoutcorner #thestargazers #avalaurengrayson

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Tomorrow is my BIRTHDAY!!!!!

In honor of this most momentous occasion, I decided to pick 46 books across several categories that I made up to highlight. I’ve loved every single one of these books, and they’re not even close to a comprehensive list in these categories. I have had a lifelong love of reading, so my categories cover all ages and some of these books I’ve loved for as long as I can remember.

I’d love to hear from you! Have you read and loved (or hated) any of these books? Any of these on your TBR you want my thoughts on? Any you think I’d love based on what I show here? Engage in the comments below! I’d love nothing more for my birthday than have some chats with my bookish friends!

#birthdaybookclub #46booksin46years #momswhoread #birthdaygirl #happybirthdaytome🎉

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About five years ago I decided to become a fiction writer, because I knew where the easy money was. The great thing about naiveté is you’re too clueless to be discouraged by Powerball-level odds of success, so you just do the work and hope for the best.

Five years on, with two novels behind me and a black coffee addiction worthy of an Intervention episode, I’m thrilled to announce that I’m officially out of the querying trenches! MASSIVE thanks to @avalaurengrayson at Lowenstein & Associates, with whom I’m very much looking forward to sharing this publishing journey.

This is obviously just the first step on the long road to publication, but you gotta stop and smell the roses along the way. To those who’ve put up with the caffeine-addled, occasionally irritable, jittery nocturnal chihuahua I’ve become in the last five years, thank you for your patience & support.

Be decent, work hard for what you love, and good things will happen - stay tuned friends! 🥂📚✨

#author #agentedauthor #bookstagram #booksta

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something spooky is brewing at smitten… 👻🎃🕸️📚

october is bringing fall magic, amazing authors, and plenty of reasons to get out of the house this season. swipe through for upcoming author events, dates & details!

visit our website for more info and to plan your next bookish night out. 🖤

#smittenbookstore #meettheauthor #romancebookstore #authorsigning #downtownventura

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🗓️ LA Author Events 10/5 - 10/13 🗓️

With this heat kicking our butts, it’s a great week to seek solace in your favorite bookstore! Seeing John Green next week is the only thing getting me through these 100 degree days!

I hope everyone stays cool, hydrated, and well read this week! 😉

💭: What was the highlight of your weekend?

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#losangeles #authorevents #bookeventslosangeles #authorsignings

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Unlike the song, I don’t really remember September… It was gone in what felt like an instant… September was busy and stressful and ALOT. Hopeful that October is way more fabulous. 💜

I read less than I intended, but still had six books that were 5 💜’s, which I feel like is awesome for just one month! Audiobooks continue to be my friend when life is so busy, and I had one VERY important re-read this month… 😉

September:
1 The Heart Trials-NetGalley
2 Our Strange Duet- 5 💜’s, Audiobook
3 One of the Family-NetGalley
4 The Truth-Teller’s Bargain
5 Embers of Fate- 5 💜’s, ALC, Audiobook
6 For Love or Music-Audiobook, Audible Original
7 A Holiday in Every Heart- 5 💜’s, Audiobook
8 Immortal Rose-NetGalley, Audiobook
9 The Goal-Audiobook
10 The Legacy-Audiobook
11 Stargazers-ARC, Annotated
12 The Takedown-Audiobook
13 If Anything Happens To Me-Re-Read
14 Dallergut- 5 💜’s
15 The Stand-In-Audiobook
16 You Found Me In June- 5 💜’s, Poetry
17 Scarred For Life- 5 💜’s, Poetry
18 Beyond the Wand-Audiobook
19 She Had Enough-NetGalley
20 The Fellowship of the Ring-Annotated
21 You Got Anything Stronger?-Audiobook
22 The Wives

#septemberreads #monthlyrecap #septemberrecap

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✨ September reading receipts are here! ✨

❓ How many books did you read in September? What was your favourite?

We read 9 🌼 and 2 🌸 books this month!

🌌 The Stargazers by @avalaurengrayson
🐦‍⬛ The Nightingales by Emil Wilson
🔍 The Thief and The Labyrinth by Alys Clare
🕵🏻‍♀️ Holmes away from home by @samanthahastingsauthor
👒 Pride, Prejudice and Peril by @jessicabullnovelist
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#readingwrapup #september #monthlywrapup #bookstagramuk #bookreviews

🔍 Murder at St. James Park by @vanessarileyauthor
🐦‍⬛ Hell to Pay by @lorabethjohnson
⚰️ The Burial Club by @clairebamfordwrites
🌊 Living at the edge of the world by SJ Barrett
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#mysterybooks #crimefiction #fiction #readersofinstagram #readingcommunity

👻 A compendium of Supernatural Entities found in the Government Girls' Higher Secondary School by Kuzhali Manickavel

🩷 Inventing Mr Darcy by @susannacraigwrites
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#bookstagramindia #readersofinstagram #readercommunity #readingtracker #autumnvibes

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