Beat the Backlist 2026—May

Prompts I finished in May

Are you feeling lucky?—that character is facing extreme luck (or otherwise)

The main female character has had awful luck over the past few years

Beat the Backlist 2026—April

Prompts I finished in April

I don’t think that’s a dog—A character has an unusual pet

The main character has a hellhound (a demon dog), a demon/horse hybrid and a juvenile dragon as a pet

Acronyms—there are a lot of acronyms in the story of the title is one

The title is an acronym

Beat the Backlist 2026—March

Prompts I finished in March

Truly Uncanny—There’s something not quite right about this character/place

Beat the Backlist 2026—February

Prompts I finished in February

Fave Author Rec

Let the games begin—about or featuring gaming, a specific game, or a competition

The main character competes in the creative Olympics

Title starts with “L“—book title starts with the letter “L“

BFF’s—features 2+ best friends as main or important side characters

Agnes and Eleanor are the BFF’s

Novella Sweet Spot—between 150-200 pages

Book is 191 pages

I like ’em chonky—more than 542 pages

Book is 546 pages

Beat the Backlist 2026—January

Prompts I finished in January

Genre Bender—combines 2+ genres together

Romance, Science Fiction and Fantasy

End of an era—last book in a series

10s, 10s, 10s across the board—title has 10+ words

Spooky scary skeletons—the book fits any part of the prompt

Spooky and scary

Locked Away—Someone/Something is under lock and key

The main female character was locked in a hospital for the criminally insane.

A game of cat or mouse—Cover features a cat or a mouse, or the story is like a cat and mouse game

The storyline is a cat-and-mouse game

Faking It—at least 1 character is pretending in some way

The main female character changed her identity

All the Colors—rainbow cover (has at least 4 rainbow colors)

I reject your reality—a speculative fiction book