About Diana Urban
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Diana Urban is an author of dark, twisty thrillers, including All Your Twisted Secrets (HarperTeen) and These Deadly Games (Wednesday Books, 2022). When she’s not torturing fictional characters, she works in digital marketing for startups. She lives with her husband and cat in Boston and enjoys reading, playing video games, fawning over cute animals, and looking at the beach from a safe distance. Visit her online at dianaurban.com.
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Author Headshots
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Key Information About My Books
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Title: These Deadly Games
Publisher: Wednesday Books / Macmillan
Release date: February 1, 2022
Formats: Hardcover, ebook, audio
Rights sold: TBD
ISBN-10: 1250797195
ISBN-13: 978-1250797193
When Crystal Donavan gets a message on a mysterious app with a video of her little sister gagged and bound, she agrees to play the kidnapper’s game. At first, they make her complete bizarre tasks: steal a test and stuff it in a locker, bake brownies, make a prank call.
But then Crystal realizes each task is meant to hurt—and kill—her friends, one by one. But if she refuses to play, the kidnapper will kill her sister. Is someone trying to take her team out of the running for a gaming tournament? Or have they uncovered a secret from their past, and wants them to pay for what they did…
As Crystal makes the impossible choices between her friends and her sister, she must uncover the truth and find a way to outplay the kidnapper… before it’s too late.
Title: All Your Twisted Secrets
Publisher: HarperTeen / HarperCollins
Release date: March 17th, 2020
Formats: Hardcover, ebook, audio
Rights sold: UK, Canada, Australia, France, Russia, Romania, Czech Republic, Spain
ISBN-10: 0062908219
ISBN-13: 978-0062908216
What do the queen bee, star athlete, valedictorian, stoner, loner, and music geek all have in common? They were all invited to a scholarship dinner, only to discover it’s a trap. Someone has locked them into a room with a bomb, a syringe filled with poison, and a note saying they have an hour to pick someone to kill … or else everyone dies.
Amber Prescott is determined to get her classmates and herself out of the room alive, but that might be easier said than done. No one knows how they’re all connected or who would want them dead. As they retrace the events over the past year that might have triggered their captor’s ultimatum, it becomes clear that everyone is hiding something. And with the clock ticking down, confusion turns into fear, and fear morphs into panic as they race to answer the biggest question: Who will they choose to die?
News & Buzz
Epic Reads: 2020's YA Fiction Books to Read Before the Year Ends (November 2020)
BuzzFeed: New YA Thrillers and Mysteries You Won't Want to Put Down (July 2020)
The Nerd Daily: Read These 2020 YA Mystery Books for the Ultimate Thrill Ride (April 2020)
Paste Magazine: The Best Young Adult Books of 2020 (March 2020)
Goodreads: The Best Young Adult Books of March (March 2020)
Epic Reads: YA Books that Wonderfully Blend Revenge and Romance (March 2020)
Publishers Weekly: Children's Book Review - All Your Twisted Secrets (January 2020)
BookBub: The Young Adult Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2020 (January 2020)
PopSugar: New Thriller and Mystery Books to Look Out For in 2020 (January 2020)
PopSugar: Promising New YA Books to Look Out For in 2020 (December 2019)
Forever Young Adult: Most Anticipated Books of 2020 (December 2019)
School Library Journal: All Your Twisted Secrets Review (November 2019)
SheReads: The Most Anticipated YA Books of 2020 (October 2019)
Hypable: ‘All Your Twisted Secrets’ Cover Reveal, Excerpt (July 2019)
The Big Thrill: Unlocking the Allure of Locked-Room Thrillers (March 2019)
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