Enduring Southern Homes by Eric Ross
A professional interior designer for more than 20 years, Kentucky-born and Nashville-based Eric Ross knows how to bring a timeless look and feel to each of his home design projects. Using a home’s architecture as his guide, Ross then weaves in traditional fabrics, antiques, and thoughtful furniture arrangements to invite a sense of warmth and community into his French country meets Southern hospitality style. In his debut book, each chapter features a different home and the design choices made throughout, along with helpful decorating and entertaining tips. (Gibbs Smith; available March 12.)
The Home Edit: A Guide to Reorganizing and Realizing Your House Goals by Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin
Home organizers to celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow and Mindy Kaling, this Nashville-based duo is pulling back the curtain on how to create beautiful, clutter-free spaces in their first book together. From outlining the organizing tools to shop for to how to maintain a newly decluttered space moving forward, The Home Edit is both a practical and approachable guide for cleaner, stress-free living. Step-by-step, label-by-label, Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin reveal how to completely remake a space, leaving no drawer, closet, or long forgotten space-beneath-the-sink behind. (Clarkson Potter; available March 19.)
Rayne & Delilah’s Midnite Matinee by Jeff Zentner
Jeff Zentner, an award-winning young adult author, returns this month with his third YA novel. Josie and Delia, aka Rayne and Delilah, are the hosts of Midnite Matinee, a creature feature program playing low-budget horror movies on their local public access station. They’re also finishing up high school and trying to decide what to do next. Delia wants Josie to stick around town to help her co-host the show while Josie has dreams of her own, like one day making it big in TV. Can their friendship withstand the test? (Crown Books for Young Readers; available now.)