The wonderful cover of The Keepers has also made the long list of the 2025 Fiction Cover Design Awards! Check out the announcement here:
Tamar Anolic
Tamar is a writer whose work focuses on a range of genres and subjects. She writes Young Adult and Middle Grade novels, as well as historical and contemporary fiction for adults. Many of her short stories have been published in literary journals, and she has written numerous award-winning books.
Tamar's newest novel, A Summer Lasts Forever, is now available!
A Summer Lasts Forever is a Young Adult coming of age novel. When sixteen-year-old Ginny Edmunds’ father uproots her family for a summer to take a fellowship at Bennington College, Ginny isn’t happy. She’s never heard of Bennington, and she’s never been to Vermont. She just wishes she could stay at home in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where she has her own friends and even a new boyfriend she’s been interested in for years. But at a family-owned store in Bennington, Ginny meets Sam and Ben Morton, the cute teenaged brothers that are being raised to take over the store one day. Immediately, Ginny is intrigued by them and their world. As she also makes other friends, Ginny finds her place in Bennington.
Eighteen-year-old Sam Morton hates working at the store. It’s been in his family for six generations, and as the oldest son, he’s expected to subvert his life to keep the place running. He would rather lose himself in his artwork, but his strict father makes that impossible. When Sam sees Ginny shopping in the store, he notices her immediately.
Can Ginny and Sam overcome their differences and their insecurities to move forward with their lives?
A Summer Lasts Forever received a 5-Star Review from N.N. Light's Book Heaven:
https://substack.com/@nnlightsbookheaven/p-175211227
A Summer Lasts Forever received a 5-Star review from Readers' Favorite!
https://readersfavorite.com/book-review/a-summer-lasts-forever
It also received a 5-Star review from Reader Views:
And don't forget to check out this great review from the US Review of Books:
Tamar's most recent YA novel, The Keepers, has been short listed for the 2025 Ozma Awards for Fantasy Fiction! The Keepers is a coming-of-age journey into a fantasy world. See the short list announcement here:
https://www.chantireviews.com/2025/08/26/the-2025-ozma-short-list-for-fantasy-fiction/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMbEfBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFwcXI5YWs4Y2VsazZIbzAyAR7yMd9WQb2rX7lmLI54xFdRJ1m78_IxJ1kn8TTw9wtH2LZ47WVk2JlPJc6PvA_aem_lb5DlUtcgsUerAcWAFn1_w