2018 New Author Challenge

This is my eighth year taking part in the New Author Challenge hosted by Literary Escapism.  They don't seem to have posted a sign up for 2017 yet but hopefully that will come soon, in the meantime I'm just creating this thread to keep a track for myself of the new authors I read this year.

As much as I have many favourite authors on my auto buy list I still love to discover new authors.  This is also great to discover both brand new and well known authors that I haven't got around to trying yet.

If you'd like to join me and take part in the challenge you can sign up here.

2010 - I tried 104 new authors
2011 - I tried 115 new authors
2012 - I tried 130 new authors
2013 - I tried 96 new authors
2014 - I tried 51 new authors
2015 - I tried 54 new authors
2016 - I tried 45 new authors
2017 - I tried 46 new authors

I will update this post with a list of the new authors I try and include links to my reviews

1. Rosemarked - Livia Blackburn
2. The Vilka's Secret - Pearl Foxx
3. Shattered Fear - Tara Thomas
4. Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams: Volume 1 - Philip K. Dick
5. Three to Ride - Lexi Blake
6. The Crossover - Kwame Alexander
7. Society of Wishes - Elise Kova & Lynn Larsh
8. Spare and Found Parts - Sarah Maria Griffin
9. The Belles - Dhonielle Clayton 
10. Claws, Confessions of a Professional Cat Groomer - Anita Kelsey
11. Scythe - Neal Shusterman
12. Four Psychos - Kristy Cunning
13. Furyborn - Claire Legrand
14. Foundryside - Robert Jackson Bennett
15. The Mermaid - Christina Henry
16. Spellslinger - Sebastien de Castell
17. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: A Picture Book - Kim Smith (Picture Book)
18. To Kill a Kingdom - Alexandra Christo
19. A Blade so Black - L.L. McKinney
20. She is Fierce: Brave, Bold and Beautiful Poems by Women - Ana Sampson (Poetry Anthology)
21. Phoenix Unbound - Grace Draven 
22. Beast: A Tale of Love and Revenge - Lisa Jensen
23. Beautiful Beast - Kyla D. Knight 
24. In the Vanishers' Palace - Aliette de Bodard
25. The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling (Interactive Edition Illustrated by MinaLima)
26. The Battlecruiser HMS Hood: An Illustrated Biography, 1916-1941 - Bruce Taylor
27. The Blue Salt Road - Joanne M. Harris
28. Sealed with a Kiss - Ariana Nash
29. Dry - Neal Shusterman & Jarrod Shusterman
30. Mirage - Somaiya Daud
31. Unleashed - Donna Kauffman (Novella)
32. The Queen's Gambit - Jessie Mihalik
33. Her Cocky Doctors - Tara Crescent
34. The Kiss Quotient - Helen Hoang
35. Tsumiko and the Enslaved Fox - Forthright
36. In Bed With the Devil - Lorraine Heath
37. A Whole New World - Liz Braswell
38. Beneath the Citadel - Destiny Soria
39. Sinful - Katherine Hawthorn
40. All Systems Red - Martha Wells
41. The Witch of the Prophecy - Victoria Jayne (Review posted on Goodreads)