NEWS: Readers constantly crave the adrenaline rush of a well-crafted thriller, and J.D. Barker delivers just that by blending genres and pushing the boundaries of storytelling. More…
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May22024
LA Weekly – J.D. Barker’s Latest Erotic Thriller Rattles TikTok
NEWS – Ever Gotten a Wildly Inappropriate Email? J.D. Barker’s Book Launch Went Viral for All the Wrong Reasons.
You know that sinking feeling when you realize you just hit “send” on an email to the absolute wrong person? For author J.D. Barker, that mortifying moment played out on a massive scale. In the lead-up to his erotic thriller Behind A Closed Door, a risqué marketing email intended for paid influencers accidentally went to a mailing list of book reviewers instead—cue total pandemonium on BookTok. More…
Apr292024
Market Insider – J.D. Barker Rewrites the Rules of Publishing, Signs with Simon & Schuster
NEWS: Bestselling author J.D. Barker has entered a distribution agreement with Simon & Schuster. Under the terms of the deal, Simon & Schuster will handle worldwide print, sales, and distribution for Barker’s imprint, Hampton Creek Press, starting November 1, 2023. More…
Nov62023
Edoardo Ballerini Signs on to Narrate BEHIND A CLOSED DOOR
Edoardo Ballerini, narrator of J.D. Barker’s award-winning 4MK thriller series, has signed on to narrate Barker’s latest thriller, BEHIND A CLOSED DOOR. The project will be produced by Recorded Books and is set to release May 6th, 2024. Billed as 50 SHADES meets David Fincher’s THE GAME, BEHIND A CLOSED DOOR introduces readers to Sugar & Spice, the latest app craze taking the world by storm, which leads downloaders Abby and Brendan Hollander into a dangerous game of life and death. When the app assigns the pair a series of increasingly taboo tasks, they soon find themselves caught up in a twisted web of seduction and violence.
The novel has been optioned for film and is expected to be one of the biggest releases of the summer season.