With spring in full bloom and summer rapidly approaching, the weather is heating up. Luckily, there’s one way to ride the heatwaves of the seasons and make the best out of them: a good book (or two) in your armour for maximum enjoyment. And with this year’s trends in fiction and nonfiction, escapism has never been hotter.

Most writers have at least one person they trust with their work. I trust my writing to no one else like I trust my son. But if you are being honest with yourself, maybe you do not even have that. Maybe the only reader your work has ever had is you.

It is almost Easter. And while the kids are out in the yard hunting for plastic eggs filled with candy, I want to talk to you about a different kind of egg hunt. One where the stakes are a little higher than what is inside a bright or pastel-colored shell.