Hello everyone! We are so happy and excited to announce the tour for The Labyrinth of Waking Dreams by Michelle Kulwicki. We have limited physical copies available for US residents and digital copies (Netgalley) for anyone in the US, Canada or International.


Genre: YA Fantasy
Publishing date: April 21, 2026
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Rep: Queer, LGBT+
Synopsis:
In this adventure-packed portal fantasy, three teens discover a gateway to a mythical Labyrinth in the Appalachian Mountains
Barrenโs Peak, West Virginia, is not a place anyone would call magical, but Thea
LaGuerre calls it home. A high school drop-out whose mother died in an accident, Thea is stuck working part-time jobs just to make ends meet. The most she has to look forward to are barn parties where she can make out with Callum, the one interesting boy who moved to town six months ago.
Thea doesnโt know it yet, but Callum was sent to Barrenโs Peak to watch her. He was raised within the magiciansโ order, a shadowy organization meant to keep humanity safe from an underworld of monsters. Callum would sacrifice anyone, including himself, to help their cause, but he still canโt help falling into Theaโs orbit. Sheโs the first person heโs felt seen by since his childhood sweetheart, Oliverโwho he hasnโt seen since Oliverโs banishment from the order.
But Oliver hasnโt given up on Callum or on magic. Following a magical creatureโs trail to Barrenโs Peak, Oliver happens upon Callum and Thea at a barn party that turns into a monster-overrun massacre. To save Callum and the girl heโs protecting from a wave of deadly fairies, Oliver opens a portal for the three of them to flee into the Labyrinth.
To get home again, Thea, Oliver, and Callum will have to work together to survive the Labyrinthโs trials and discover the threads that brought them there.
Content Warning: death of a parent


Michelle Kulwicki grew up in the Pacific Northwest overturning every rock and stick in an unending quest to find portals to worlds far more exciting than her own. After moving to the mountainless Midwest, she earned her bachelors and masterโs degrees in music performance, and spent years in the symphony and musical theater pit circuit. Sheโs now a mom by day, musician by night, and writer in all the spaces in betweenโa life that is somewhat lacking in portals, but is still full of magic.
Her short fiction has been both Locus Recommended and Hugo nominated, and her novel work has been featured in a special edition Owlcrate box as well as been translated into Italian and French. She can be found on most socials as @kulwickiwrites, or online at michellekulwicki.com
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