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This week’s topic is, “Top 5 authors I want to try in 2025 Who are some new authors that you want to read from in 2025?” Which works well as a companion piece to New-to-Me Authors I Discovered in 2024 from earlier. It’s sort of future-casting half of next year’s post. One hopes. There are plenty of authors who will be new to me this year, I trust, but these are the top five I’m planning on getting to know.

1 Karl Forshaw

I first “met” Forshaw when I was trying to put together my Self-Published Authors Appreciation Week posts last year. It was a pleasure working with him, and he was very supportive and helpful. But also…his novel, Renia, looks pretty good and I’ve only heard good things about it (including from other Self-Published authors last year)
2 Adrian Gibson

Not too long ago, I seemingly couldn’t go a day without seeing something about Adrian’s first novel, Mushroom Blues, and his podcast shouldn’t be missed. Then, on a lark, I invited him to my little YouTube channel and not only was he gracious enough to show up, I had a great time with it, too.

Also, a friend read and raved about his book.

He’s a nice guy, he knows what he’s talking about, and his debut novel seems to be a winner. What’s not to look forward to?
3 Jason Pargin

I have no personal connection to this author, I’ve just been hearing great things about him for years, and really want to dive in.
4 DB Rook

I could basically repeat what I said about Forshaw here. I won’t, I’ll just point you to it and then point to his book, Callus & Crow.
5 Sadir S. Samir

I don’t have much of a connection to Samir, either. But the same friend from above raved about it, other friends and bloggers have, too–and The Crew got plenty of in my SPAAW series last year. It’s beyond time for me to try his stuff.

Do you have any particular authors you’re looking forward to trying this year?