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I need you all to know about the @simonmaverickaudio book of THIS IS NOT A TEST!!! It's narrated by @kimberlywoods and @andreonthemic and it's a zombie apocalypse I want everyone to experience. Kimberly's Sloane is so unflinching and so sharp and full of longing and hearing her reckon with the trauma and hurt that defines her arc is captivating. André's Rhys is the perfect complement—so sincere in his determination and desperation to be strong despite being so lost and broken-hearted. Together they will absolutely shatter you. When I tell you I was. 🥹 Thank you, Kimberly, thank you, André, thank you @jasonpinter and the S&S Maverick team for a production that is so deeply personal feeling, terrifying, and devastating, I still have not recovered. 🥹 I MAY NEVER! Join me in emotional destruction. Out January 13th where audiobooks are sold!!!

Read it & see it . . . 🧟‍♂️

Now a major motion picture directed by Adam MacDonald and starring Olivia Holt, in theaters February 20th.

The Breakfast Club meets 28 Days Later in this revised and expanded edition of Courtney Summers’s cult classic about a traumatized young woman forced to survive the zombie apocalypse.

Sloane Price knows there are worse things than the end of the world, so when the zombie apocalypse happens, the opportunity to escape her violent home life offers no relief. She’s already lost the one thing that matters most—her sister—and now seems like the perfect time to give up. But when she inadvertently ends up barricaded in her high school with five other teens, their desperate and volatile bids for survival force a series of impossible decisions. As the days creep by and the dead close in, Sloane must confront everything she thought she knew about life, death, survival, and sacrifice and, once and for all, make a choice.

Joined together for the first time in this special “director’s cut” edition, This Is Not a Test and its novella sequel Please Remain Calm explore the forces that tether us to life—and to each other—in our darkest times.

in paperback from @bindery_books x @theinkyphoenix

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Kathryn Budig is an internationally celebrated yoga teacher, author, and founder of the community Haus of Phoenix and The Inky Phoenix book club, with a quarter million followers on Instagram and Facebook. With nearly two decades of experience in her field, Budig co-hosted the WebAward-nominated podcast, Free Cookies, served as the yoga editor to Women’s Health magazine for five years, contributed recipes and sat on the Yahoo Health Advisory Board, and regularly contributed to YogaJournal and MindBodyGreen. She is the creator of the Aim True Yoga DVD, author of The Women’s Health Big Book of Yoga, and bestselling Aim True. She lives in Charleston, SC with her wife, Kate Fagan, and their dog, Ragnar.

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The Inky Phoenix's picks and acquisitions are up-market speculative fiction with a focus on queer voices, and myth and magic that are rooted in history or reality. If you’re called to celebrate storytelling and community, while elevating new and deserving authors, please join us on this beautiful journey of making magic real.

My love for books runs deep. Bookstores were my favorite place to visit as a child, I received a double major in English Literature and Drama from the University of Virginia, and I went on to author *The Women's Health Big Book of Yoga* and *Aim True*. My most recent work was published in Zosia Mamet’s anthology, *My First Popsicle*, but my true loves have yet to meet the world — I too write fiction, and long to see it in published form. I co-hosted the podcast Free Cookies where we bantered and interviewed notables such as Madeline Miller, TJ Klune, George M. Johnson, and Emily St. John Mandel. Plus, I have the cutest rescue pup in the world: Ragnar Ashison.

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