[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row padding_mobile=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on” admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”off” width_unit=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_team_member name=”LAURA BROOKE ROBSON ” image_url=”http:\/\/andreasomberg.com\/aslitagent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/LauraBrookeRobson.jpg” admin_label=”Person” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
Laura Brooke Robson grew up in the mountains of Oregon and studied English at Stanford University. A CURSE FOR THE HOMESICK is her first book for adults; she is also the author of two young adult novels. She lives in New York.\u00a0You can find her at laurabrookerobson.com<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_team_member][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_team_member name=”LOVE IS AN ALGORITHM” image_url=”http:\/\/andreasomberg.com\/aslitagent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/LoveIsAnAlgorithm.jpg” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n US: Park Row Books\/Harper, 2026;;\u00a0 UK\/AUSTRALIA: Text Publishing<\/p>\n *A Book of the Month Club Selection (listen to the podcast available on BOTMC<\/a>,\u00a0Spotify<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Apple<\/a>)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n *A Strand Bookstore Pick of the Month\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n *A SheReads Most Anticipated Book of 2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n * A Portalist Most Anticipated Book of 2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Pattern is more than just a dating app\u2014it\u2019s your friendly relationship coach. It will tell you whether you should invest in learning your partner\u2019s love language (quality time!) or pull the escape hatch (red flags galore!). The latest version of Pattern includes Bug, a friendly AI chatbot guaranteed to give you bespoke relationship advice and help revitalize that spark. Take the uncertainty out of love! <\/span><\/p>\n Eve wants to make music that’s fueled by love, passion, and rage (feelings!). She trusts her gut and her friends and in no way wants to rely on technology, let alone AI, to tell her how she feels. Danny is anxious\u2014about his dad, his dating life, his coffee order (why is it twelve dollars?), and about the dating app he helped create, which seems determined to serve him terrible matches.<\/p>\n When Eve and Danny start dating, it feels like the solution to all of Danny\u2019s worries\u2014except when it doesn\u2019t. Is she happy? Should he be doing more? Or less? This becomes the catalyst for a revolutionary new version of Danny\u2019s app that promises to quantify relationship health and potential, helping users understand what’s really <\/span>going on. Problem solved!<\/p>\n As Pattern and Bug, the ever-so-friendly AI assistant, catch fire, users everywhere begin outsourcing major life decisions to Danny\u2019s algorithms. But as Danny reckons with his newfound success, Eve\u2014whose career relies on her ability to write her emotions into song\u2014grows increasingly skeptical of the app\u2019s impact on genuine connection. Their relationship becomes the ultimate modern experiment: How do you fall and stay in love in the digital age?<\/p>\n Joyful, generous and smart\u2014an absolute delight moment-to-moment, full of fun and charm, but also sharp and perceptive about creative work, our dependence on technology, and some of the ways relationships can go awry.\u2019\u00a0 — <\/strong>Holly Gramazio, NY-Times Bestselling author of The Husbands<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cRobson has crafted a compelling love story examining intimacy, vulnerability, and communication in the modern age.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u2014Margarita Montimore, bestselling author of\u00a0Oona Out of Order<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cSmart, funny, immensely readable, and deeply insightful about how we make art, fall in love, and connect with each other in the age of AI. With its sharp humour and delightful dialogue,\u00a0Love is an Algorithm<\/span> was exactly the book I needed\u2014I tore through it.\u201d \u2014Else Fitzgerald,\u00a0Everything Feels Like the End of the World<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cA cutting satire of tech startups, New York City, and dating, this novel is necessary reading for anyone trying to figure out who they are and what they want in the era of social media. In this funny, fast-paced, and intimate tale, there might be A.I. but there’s nothing artificial about emotion.\u201d<\/strong><\/em> \u201cWarm, funny, emotional, propulsive and real\u2014a beautiful love story.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2014Jessica Stanley, author of\u00a0Consider Yourself Kissed<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Bookshop.org<\/a><\/p>\n B&N<\/a><\/p>\n Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_team_member][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_team_member name=”A CURSE FOR THE HOMESICK ” image_url=”http:\/\/andreasomberg.com\/aslitagent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ACursefortheHomesick.jpg” admin_label=”Person” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n US: Mira\/HarperCollins; UK: HodderStoughton<\/p>\n *A BookPage Best Fantasy Book of the Year\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n *A LitHub Best Book for February\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n *A BookPage Best Top 10 Books for March<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n *A BookPage 3 Best SFF Romances of Spring 2025<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cA lyrical, melancholy, and deeply moving story about the people we love\u00a0and the places we long for. Aching and poignant.\u201d That’s how Tess\u2019s mother killed Soren\u2019s parents. Maybe for this reason alone,\u00a0Tess and Soren should not have fallen in love. Since the time her mother was a\u00a0skeld, Tess has wanted to leave Stenland, to run from the windswept island, from\u00a0her family and friends. She is unwilling to bear the responsibility of one day killing\u00a0anyone, let alone someone she loves. Soren has been determined to stay, to live\u00a0out his life in the place he knows as home, even if that life could be cut short\u00a0during the latest skeld season. They cannot see eye to eye\u2014and yet they cannot\u00a0stay apart. She tries to come back for him. He tries to leave for her. But can your\u00a0love for one person outweigh everything else combined? And how do you decide\u00a0how much you\u2019re willing to risk, if it might mean destroying someone else in the\u00a0process?<\/p>\n Laura Robson has crafted a fascinating story about the choices we make, the\u00a0responsibilities we carry, and the ambiguities of regret.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cA CURSE FOR THE HOMESICK is above all a second-chance romance, but author Laura Brooke Robson\u2019s simple, elegant tale is also a devoted character study and a love letter to [Robson\u2019s] gorgeous fictional setting of Stenland: the wind, the cairns, the old towers; the ice cream spot and Hedda\u2019s, the only coffee shop; the concrete swimming pool and the claustrophobia of a small town. This grounded, moving novel is a perfect rainy day read and an ode to what it is to be human\u2014to desire and gain, to desire and lose, to find again.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u2014 BookPage Starred Review<\/strong><\/p>\n “Robson deftly examines the emotional costs of family, love, and loyalty…. an enthralling read that lingers like a half-forgotten memory.”\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 — Booklist\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n “Darkly enchanting.” \u201cA lyrical, melancholy, and deeply moving story about the people we love and the places we long for. Aching and poignant.\u201d \u201cStunning, heartbreaking, a gorgeous lyrical page-turner,\u00a0A Curse for the Homesick\u00a0is a must-read for anyone who understands that love\u00a0is the deepest, darkest form of magic.\u201d \u201cStar-crossed lovers, a remote island, a deadly curse\u2026\u00a0A Curse for the Homesick\u00a0is an emotionally-charged rollercoaster that is as sexy\u00a0as it is haunting. You won\u2019t want to put it down, but you might have to once in a while just to catch your breath.\u201d \u201cA thoroughly modern love story set against a backdrop of ancient mythology, it evokes perfectly that feeling of, at long last, finding the\u00a0only place in this world that is home. Deeply atmospheric, profound, and beautiful.\u201d \u201cWith her signature atmospheric prose and incisive eye for detail, Robson will make you yearn for a place you\u2019ve never been. A\u00a0bittersweet, hopeful tale about what it means to belong to a place\u2014and how love is a risk worth taking.\u201d
\u2014Kyle Chayka, author of Filterworld<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
\u2014Ava Reid, #1\u00a0New York Times\u00a0bestselling author of\u00a0A Study in Drowning
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On Stenland, there comes a time known as skeld season: one day, any woman\u00a0on the island can wake with three black lines on her forehead, the mark of a\u00a0skeld. Skeld season comes around without warning, and while each window of\u00a0time lasts only three months, anyone a skeld turns to stone is very much dead.<\/p>\n
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\u2014Ava Reid, #1\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0bestselling author of\u00a0A Study in Drowning<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
\u2014Meg Shaffer,\u00a0USA Today\u00a0bestselling author of\u00a0The Lost Story<\/strong><\/p>\n
\u2014Ruth Emmie Lang, author of\u00a0Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance<\/strong><\/p>\n
\u2014James Goodhand, author of\u00a0The Day Tripper<\/strong><\/p>\n
\u2014Allison Saft,\u00a0New York Times\u00a0bestselling author of\u00a0A Far Wilder Magic<\/strong><\/p>\n