Southern Review of Books | January 13, 2026

All the Little Houses
By May Cobb
January 20, 2026

Sourcebooks Landmark: “It’s the mid-1980s in the tiny town of Longview, Texas. Nellie Anderson, the beautiful daughter of the Anderson family dynasty, has burst onto the social scene, and she always gets what she wants. What she can’t get for herself? Well, that’s what her mother, the blonde, beautiful, and ruthlessly cunning Charleigh Anderson, is for. Because Charleigh remembers all too well having to claw her way to the top. And now that she’s there, she refuses to let anyone stand in her way. But during the span of a scorching, unrelenting summer, a new family arrives, and the back-to-nature prairie vibes of the Swifts quickly enchant most of Longview, threatening to take down the self-made social empire Charleigh has crafted in this corner of East Texas. Charleigh will stop at nothing to stay on top, unaware that she is outsmarting herself, setting a deadly trap that might undermine everything.”

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CBC | January 8, 2026

On Canada Reads, five Canadian celebrities each pick one book that all Canadians should read. They debate their choices over the course of four days, voting to eliminate one every day. The last book standing is the winner.

The 2026 longlist includes Slice The Water by PP Wong.

The five panellists and the five books they choose to champion will be revealed on Jan. 22.

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Woman’s World | January 7, 2026

For a twisted mystery inspired by ‘Little House on the Prairie,’ try:

‘All The Little Houses’ by May Cobb

May Cobb is beloved for her wild Texas-set thriller The Hunting Wives—now a hit Netflix series—and her new novel is brimming with her signature deliciously wicked drama. It’s the mid-1980s in Long View, Texas, and Nellie Anderson and her mother, Charleigh, are used to getting anything they want. But when a wholesome new family moves to town, their carefully constructed social empire is suddenly threatened. When we sat down with Cobb a couple of months ago, she described the book as “my twisted wink and nod to Little House on the Prairie.”

What early readers are saying: “Cobb delivers a gripping, darkly entertaining look at a toxic mother-daughter relationship like you’ve never seen before. Told in her signature multi-POV style, the story takes the reader to East Texas in the ’80s, where ‘small town drama’ is an understatement.”

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Texas Monthly | January 1, 2026

Before last summer, May Cobb was the moderately successful author of a handful of East Texas–set thrillers. Now she’s riding the wave of a hit TV show about some of the cruelest women you’ve ever seen.

May Cobb always wanted to be a writer, but the bestseller list didn’t seem a likely destination. The 52-year-old Longview native’s early instincts were hardly commercial. She studied Victorian literature for her master’s at San Francisco State University, and her main passion project was a biography of the blind jazz multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk.

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B&N Reads | December 30, 2025

With a new year comes a new opportunity to find your next favorite story, and this is the perfect time to read widely.

All the Little Houses: A Novel
By May Cobb

The author of The Hunting Wives takes readers back to Texas for a sharp thriller set in the 1980s, where the little houses are full of big secrets — and the women who will do anything to keep them quiet.

Hollywood Reporter | December 30, 2025

Last season’s Emmy darlings The Pitt and The Studio are both set to run their second seasons in the next 12 months, as are watercooler shows The Hunting Wives and Paradise.

Netflix’s shocking erotic thriller is preparing to stir up more trouble. The series follows Sophie (Brittany Snow), who gets close — maybe too close — to socialite Margo (Malin Akerman) after her family moves from Boston to Texas and she becomes consumed by obsession, seduction and murder.

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The Guardian | December 27, 2025

Blackmail! Murder! Horny Republicans! This starry bonkbuster is about as good as nonsense television gets.

This is it. This is your reward. For getting through Christmas, for getting through the crisis-laden sorrowfest that was 2025, the gods of television have vouchsafed us all The Hunting Wives, eight episodes of the most perfect trash to fill our screens since – well, I don’t even know when.

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December 17, 2025

Victoria Sanders Associates grieves the loss of our wonderful client and friend DéLana R.A. Dameron. DéLana was the esteemed author of Fairfield County and Redwood Court. In addition to her immense talent as a writer, DéLana was the founder of Saloma Acres, an equestrian and cultural space in South Carolina.

Please take some time to browse these writeups about her:

• Remembering DéLana R.A. Dameron by Literary Hub — Dec. 17, 2025

• New York Times obituary — Dec. 9, 2025

• ‘Gigantic crater’ in Columbia’s literary community: A renowned SC author and equestrian has died by The Post and Courier — Dec. 1, 2025

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Hollywood Reporter | December 10, 2025

Malin Akerman is lending her voice to tell a new story from The Hunting Wives author May Cobb.

Akerman, who stars in the Netflix series adaptation of The Hunting Wives, has joined the audiobook production of Cobb’s upcoming novel, All the Little Houses. The actress will voice the chapters of the main character, Charleigh Anderson.

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NPR | November 24, 2025

WATER MIRROR ECHO by Jeff Chang, CASUALTIES OF TRUTH by Lauren Francis-Sharma have both been named to the 2025 “Books We Love” list by NPR.

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• Jeff Chang

• Lauren Francis-Sharma

NY Times Book REview | nOVEMBER 21, 2025

The Nameless City (Book 1), is still making headlines! The NY Times Book Review included it in its list of 11 recommendations for fans of Rick Riordan’s Olympians series, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.

“Full of heart-pounding leaps and flashing swords, this dynamic graphic novel also serves up subtle references to colonization, cultural conflict and identity.” —NY Times Book Review

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Audible | November 17, 2025

Karin Slaughter is one of those authors I turn to when I want a story guaranteed to completely pull me in. We Are All Guilty Here focuses on a small Southern town where a violent crime sends shockwaves through a community full of secrets. This isn’t just a whodunit—it’s more of a “what did we all do?” It leaves you questioning everything—and talking about it long after. Expect a slow-burn suspense that packs a serious emotional punch. If you loved Pieces of Her or Pretty Girls, this one should already be on your Wish List. —DG

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L.A. Taco | November 6, 2025

“Bruce was an Asian in America at the dawn of Asian America,” writes Jeff Chang in the introduction to "Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America," his definitive biography of Bruce Lee.

“He was not only living in between two worlds,“ writes Chang. “But in a third place, one with its own history, meaning, and direction. The lives that he lived there expose the true size of the obstacle he faced, describe the complicated character of the man he became, and delineate his extraordinary achievement.”

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Black Enterprise | November 3, 2025

Denene Millner has consistently excelled throughout her 25-year career. The former entertainment reporter and political journalist for the New York Daily News—and former editor for Parenting and Honey Magazine, the seminal millennial women’s publication that debuted in the early 2000s—turned author of 35 books to-date, six of which are New York Times best-sellers; two that were adapted into screenplays, one for the silver screen—is currently vice president and publisher of Denene Millner Books, a Black children’s book imprint under Simon & Schuster Publishing House.

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Essence | October 29, 2025

On May 15, 2025, Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest antebellum mansions in Louisiana, caught fire. The event immediately sparked an intense discussion on social media about race, slavery, and how we remember American history. While many white Americans mourned the loss of this grand historical estate, several African Americans expressed joyous relief. To us, Nottoway’s transformation in the 1980s – from a brutal site of enslavement to a luxury resort and wedding venue – represented the Southern plantation tourist industry’s tendency to whitewash our past.

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AirMail | October 23, 2025

A new book traces the actor’s journey from Hong Kong to Hollywood—and reveals how his career redefined Asian representation on-screen.

When Bruce Lee hit movie screens in August of 1973 with his instant blockbuster, Enter the Dragon, everything about him seemed counter-intuitive.

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The Orange County Register | October 10, 2025

In the following months, publishers both big and small will release some of their most anticipated titles, perfectly timed for readers who want to dig into a book in a park, their backyard, or a coffeehouse with a hot drink in hand. (We won’t judge you for ordering something pumpkin-spice flavored.)

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Vogue | October 7, 2025

Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America by Jeff Chang (September)

Say “Bruce Lee,” and the name conjures up a vision, a concept, or an ideal to almost everybody in the world, along the lines of Muhummad Ali or Bob Marley. Poke a bit beneath the surface, though, and just what people know about the martial arts legend and film star often proves to be quite vague and ethereal. Enter Water Mirror Echo (Mariner), Jeff Chang’s lively and deeply researched biography of Lee that doubles as a probing exploration of Lee’s profound effect on Asian American identity. Along with telling the gripping story of Lee’s life and groundbreaking career, Chang (whose first book, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, was named one of the best American nonfiction books of the last quarter century) reframes the legend as a crucial pioneer and catalyst of assimilation, pride, and representation who, decades after his death at the age of 32, remains a powerful icon of power and resistance. This is that rare book that’s monumental in scope, ambition, and execution—and it’s both wildly fun and deeply rewarding.

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