Maurice Carlos Ruffin's lauded debut novel disguised his hometown; his new short story collection, "Those Who Don't Say They Love You," faces the city head on. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-08-19 13:00:47 UTC ]
Trapeze has pre-empted UK and Commonwealth rights for Blood Sugar, the debut novel from Emmy-nominated screenwriter Sascha Rothchild. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-19 02:30:09 UTC ]
Little, Brown science fiction and fantasy imprint Orbit has snapped up fantasy author Emily Tesh's "phenomenal" debut novel, Some Desperate Glory. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-17 15:24:34 UTC ]
Independent press And Other Stories has acquired My Father’s Diet, the "sharp-fanged" debut novel from US author and translator Adrian Nathan West. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-14 21:32:44 UTC ]
Allison & Busby has acquired the "rich and haunting" debut novel The Porcelain Doll by Kristen Loesch. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-11 11:30:12 UTC ]
Pan Macmillan has signed In a New York Minute from podcaster, comedian and debut novelist Kate Spencer in a two-book deal Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-11 02:47:56 UTC ]
Virginia Feito’s debut novel features a woman persuaded that her husband, a celebrated writer, has skewered her in his latest book. Is she right? Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-08-10 09:00:06 UTC ]
Interviews Emilio Fraia’s Sevastopol, out this summer from New Directions, is the sort of book that beguiles and dazzles in equal measure. Consisting of three disparate stories—of a mountain climber attempting to scale Mt. Everest, a mysterious loner... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2021-08-09 20:31:30 UTC ]
Ash Davidson’s debut novel delves into the complex relationship among people who love the trees that are also their livelihood. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-08-02 16:47:33 UTC ]
Poet Oli Hazzard on writing his debut novel Lorem Ipsum, which is made up of one single 50,000-word sentence. The post Notes on Craft appeared first on Granta. Continue reading >> [ Source: Granta | 2021-07-22 08:54:09 UTC ]
Back in April, A24 and Rhombus Media optioned the rights to Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer, Nguyen’s Pulitzer-winning debut novel about a half-French, half-Vietnamese army captain who serves as a communist double agent after the fall of Saigon. The novel is being adapted into a limited... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-07-16 15:33:34 UTC ]
The illustrated debut novel 'Orphans of the Tide' wins the 2021 Branford Boase Award, which honors both authors and their editors. The post Struan Murray, Ben Horslen Win the UK’s Branford Boase Award appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-07-15 20:44:40 UTC ]
Carolyn Ferrell’s beautifully hair-raising debut novel takes readers into a house of horrors where some survivors have a better chance than others. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-07-07 09:00:03 UTC ]
The author was repeatedly told that no one wanted to read fun books with disabled heroes. Now she has won the £5,000 Waterstones children’s book prize for her debut, A Kind of SparkWhen Scottish author Elle McNicoll was first trying to enter the publishing world, she was repeatedly told that... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-07-01 05:01:05 UTC ]
St. Martin’s buys a debut novel by a Bloomsbury UK assistant editor, a pair of podcasters sells a book on race to Park Row, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-06-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
Publishing a debut novel is never easy. 100,000 long-form works of English-language fiction are published every year and even in normal circumstances it’s a struggle to for a first-time novelist to stand out from the pack. But the last 15 or so months have been particularly trying. Full lockdown... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-06-12 22:02:54 UTC ]
The author of a debut novel about diversity in the workplace on how black people act around white people, embracing her hair, and what’s changed a year after George Floyd’s murderZakiya Dalila Harris was born and raised in Connecticut and is currently based in Brooklyn. Now a full-time writer,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-06-05 17:00:15 UTC ]
HarperCollins Ireland has pre-empted a debut novel by award-winning actor and playwright Emmet Kirwan, to be published in 2023. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-05-28 22:53:36 UTC ]
Lisa Taddeo, whose book "Three Women" broke the mold of immersive journalism, talks about her first novel, "Animal," and the struggle to write and live. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-05-27 13:00:06 UTC ]
Zakiya Dalila Harris, a former editorial assistant, is making a splash with “The Other Black Girl,” her debut novel about an African-American woman navigating a nearly all-white workplace. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-05-23 20:21:45 UTC ]