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Contact Information
You can find me on Instagram @adrienneyoungbooks.
My agent, Barbara Poelle, can be reached at [email protected].
My foreign rights agent, Heather Baror-Shapiro, can be reached at [email protected].
My film agent, Sean Berard, can be reached at [email protected].
My publicist at Wednesday Books (Sky in the Deep, The Girl the Sea Gave Back, Fable, Namesake, The Last Legacy, & Saint), Meghan Harrington, can be reached at [email protected].
My publicists at Delacorte Press (Spells for Forgetting), Melissa Folds, can be reached at [email protected].
My publicist at TarcherPerigee (The Storyteller’s Workbook), Alyssa Alder, can be reached at [email protected].
Official Author Bio
Short Bio
Adrienne Young is the New York Times and international bestselling author of the Sky and Sea duology, the Fable series, and Spells for Forgetting. When she’s not writing, you can find Adrienne on her yoga mat, on a walk in the woods, or planning her next travel adventure. She lives and writes in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.
Long Bio
Adrienne Young is the New York Times, Sunday Times, USA Today, Indie list, and international bestselling author of the Sky and Sea duology , the Fable series, and Spells for Forgetting. Her books have been published in over twenty-five countries around the world and Fable had the honor of being selected as a Reese’s Bookclub YA Pick.
Young is also the creator of the continuously sold out Writing With the Soul workshop, the Fable Grant, the Storyteller’s Retreat, #findmywritingcommunity, and numerous initiatives to support women and youth storytellers. Her first nonfiction project is The Storyteller’s Workbook, in collaboration with artist and author Isabel Ibañez.
When she’s not writing, you can find Adrienne on her yoga mat, on a walk in the woods, or planning her next travel adventure. She lives and writes in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.
The Unmaking of June Farrow
ISBN 9780593598672
Publisher: Penguin Randomhouse
Pub Date: October 17, 2023
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Summary
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A woman risks everything to end her family’s centuries-old curse, solve her mother’s disappearance, and find love in this mesmerizing novel from the author of Spells for Forgetting.
A GOOD HOUSEKEEPING AND SHE READS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting for fate to find her. The Farrow women are known for their thriving flower farm—and the mysterious curse that has plagued their family line. The whole town remembers the madness that led to Susanna Farrow’s disappearance, leaving June to be raised by her grandmother and haunted by rumors.
It’s been a year since June started seeing and hearing things that weren’t there. Faint wind chimes, a voice calling her name, and a mysterious door appearing out of nowhere—the signs of what June always knew was coming. But June is determined to end the curse once and for all, even if she must sacrifice finding love and having a family of her own.
After her grandmother’s death, June discovers a series of cryptic clues regarding her mother’s decades-old disappearance, except they only lead to more questions. But could the door she once assumed was a hallucination be the answer she’s been searching for? The next time it appears, June realizes she can touch it and walk past the threshold. And when she does, she embarks on a journey that will not only change both the past and the future, but also uncover the lingering mysteries of her small town and entangle her heart in an epic star-crossed love.
With The Unmaking of June Farrow, Adrienne Young delivers a brilliant novel of romance, mystery, and a touch of the impossible—a story you will never forget.
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Saint
ISBN 1250846765 (ISBN13: 9781250846761)
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Pub Date: November 29th, 2022
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Summary
As a boy, Elias learned the hard way what happens when you don’t heed the old tales.
Nine years after his lack of superstition got his father killed, he’s grown into a young man of piety, with a deep reverence for the hallowed sea and her fickle favor. As stories of the fisherman’s son who has managed to escape the most deadly of storms spreads from port to port, his devotion to the myths and creeds has given him the reputation of the luckiest bastard to sail the Narrows.
Now, he’s mere days away from getting everything his father ever dreamed for him: a ship of his own, a crew, and a license that names him as one of the first Narrows-born traders. But when a young dredger from the Unnamed Sea with more than one secret crosses his path, Elias’ faith will be tested like never before. The greater the pull he feels toward her, the farther he drifts from the things he’s spent the last three years working for.
He is dangerously close to repeating his mistakes and he’s seen first hand how vicious the jealous sea can be. If he’s going to survive her retribution, he will have to decide which he wants more, the love of the girl who could change their shifting world, or the sacred beliefs that earned him the name that he’s known for―Saint.
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The Storyteller’s Workbook
ISBN 0593539435 (ISBN13: 9780593539439)
Publisher: TarcherPerigee
Pub Date: December 13th, 2022
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Summary
Your companion to writing a novel from start to finish, with thoughtful prompts, calendars, and checklists to guide you along the way.
Wherever you are on your journey as a writer, The Storyteller’s Workbook is your one-stop shop for planning, writing, and pitching your novel. Find the space and freedom to create authentically with just enough structure and guidance to get you to the finish line.
The workbook includes:
– calendars to record daily word counts, set and track goals, or keep due dates in sight
– progress coloring sheets to track milestones
– a fluid and customizable outline
– character development and world-building tools
– revision and polishing checklists
– prompts for creating a title
– worksheets for crafting an effective pitch, synopsis, and query to assist in selling your novel
– literary agent and query tracker
– sticker sheets filled with writerly wit and wisdom
– blank pages for brainstorming, sketching, or collecting research
– a place to plan and save rewards to keep you motivated
No more keeping track of multiple notebooks and digital files — now all your work is in one place. Stay organized and inspired while you explore the farthest reaches of your imagination. The Storyteller’s Workbook is designed to empower you to write the story only you can tell.
We’re going on this adventure together. It’s time to pick up your pen.
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Spells for Forgetting
ISBN 0593358511 (ISBN13: 9780593358511)
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Pub Date: September 27th, 2022
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Summary
Emery Blackwood’s life was forever changed on the eve of her high school graduation, when the love of her life, August Salt, was accused of murdering her best friend, Lily. Now, she is doing what her teenage self swore she never would: living a quiet existence among the community that fractured her world in two. She’d once longed to run away with August, eager to escape the misty, remote shores of Saiorse Island and chase new dreams; now, she maintains her late mother’s tea shop and cares for her ailing father. But just as the island, rooted in folklore and tradition, begins to show signs of strange happenings, August returns for the first time in fourteen years and unearths the past that no one wants to remember.
August Salt knows he is not welcome on Saiorse, not after the night that changed everything. As a fire raged on at the Salt family orchard, Lily Morgan was found dead in the dark woods, shaking the bedrock of their tight-knit community and branding August a murderer. When he returns to bury his mother’s ashes, he must confront the people who turned their backs on him and face the one wound from the past that has never healed—Emery. But the town has more than one reason to want August gone, and the emergence of deep betrayals and hidden promises that span generations threatens to reveal the truth behind Lily’s death once and for all.
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The Last Legacy
ISBN 1250823722 (ISBN13: 9781250823724)
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Pub Date: September 7th, 2021
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Summary
When a letter from her uncle Henrick arrives on Bryn Roth’s eighteenth birthday, summoning her back to Bastian, Bryn is eager to prove herself and finally take her place in her long-lost family.
Henrik has plans for Bryn, but she must win everyone’s trust if she wants to hold any power in the delicate architecture of the family. It doesn’t take long for her to see that the Roths are entangled in shadows. Despite their growing influence in upscale Bastian, their hands are still in the kind of dirty business that got Bryn’s parents killed years ago. With a forbidden romance to contend with and dangerous work ahead, the cost of being accepted into the Roths may be more than Bryn can pay.
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Namesake
ISBN 1250254396 (ISBN13: 9781250254399)
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Pub Date: March 16th, 2021
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Summary
With the Marigold ship free of her father, Fable and its crew were set to start over. That freedom is short-lived when she becomes a pawn in a notorious thug’s scheme. In order to get to her intended destination she must help him to secure a partnership with Holland, a powerful gem trader who is more than she seems.
As Fable descends deeper into a world of betrayal and deception she learns that her mother was keeping secrets, and those secrets are now putting the people Fable cares about in danger. If Fable is going to save them then she must risk everything, including the boy she loves and the home she has finally found.
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Fable
ISBN 1250254361 (ISBN13: 9781250254368)
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Pub Date: September 1st, 2020
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Summary
As the daughter of the most powerful trader in the Narrows, the sea is the only home seventeen-year-old Fable has ever known. It’s been four years since the night she watched her mother drown during an unforgiving storm. The next day her father abandoned her on a legendary island filled with thieves and little food. To survive she must keep to herself, learn to trust no one and rely on the unique skills her mother taught her. The only thing that keeps her going is the goal of getting off the island, finding her father and demanding her rightful place beside him and his crew. To do so Fable enlists the help of a young trader named West to get her off the island and across the Narrows to her father.
But her father’s rivalries and the dangers of his trading enterprise have only multiplied since she last saw him and Fable soon finds that West isn’t who he seems. Together, they will have to survive more than the treacherous storms that haunt the Narrows if they’re going to stay alive.
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The Girl the Sea Gave Back
ISBN: 1250168481 (ISBN13: 9781250168481)
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Pub Date: September 3rd, 2019
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Summary
For as long as she can remember, Tova has lived among the Svell, the people who found her washed ashore as a child and use her for her gift as a Truthtongue. Her own home and clan are long-faded memories, but the sacred symbols and staves inked over every inch of her skin mark her as one who can cast the rune stones and see into the future. She has found a fragile place among those who fear her, but when two clans to the east bury their age-old blood feud and join together as one, her world is dangerously close to collapse.
For the first time in generations, the leaders of the Svell are divided. Should they maintain peace or go to war with the allied clans to protect their newfound power? And when their chieftain looks to Tova to cast the stones, she sets into motion a series of events that will not only change the landscape of the mainland forever but will give her something she believed she could never have again―a home.
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Sky in the Deep
ISBN: 1250168457 (ISBN13: 9781250168450)
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Pub Date: April 24th, 2018
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Summary
Seventeen-year-old Eelyn’s world is war. Raised to fight alongside her Aska clansmen in a generations-old blood feud against the Riki, her life is brutal but simple: fight and survive. Until the day she sees the impossible on the battlefield—her brother, fighting with the enemy—the brother she watched die five years ago.
Faced with her brother’s betrayal, she must survive the winter in the mountains with the Riki if she wants to make it back to the fjord after the thaw. But when she begins to see herself in the people she’s been taught to hate, the world Eelyn once knew begins to crumble. And after the village is raided by a ruthless clan many believe to be a myth, Eelyn is given no choice but to trust Fiske, her brother’s friend who has tried more than once to kill her. Together, they must end the blood feud between their clans or watch their people be slaughtered.
A lush, Viking-age inspired fantasy about loyalty, forgiveness, and the definition of family.
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