Not everyone writing their first book is under 40. The prizewinning novelist has helped to form a group called Prime Writers, designed to change expectationsA few months before my first novel was published, it seemed that everywhere I looked people were writing about young debut authors. And showing lovely pictures of them, too, with their smooth cheeks, unsaggy jawlines and chins without hairs (unless of course they were male, and then they had full hipster beards).It seemed those three words – book, debut, young – naturally went together, like three-legged race, or ready, steady, go. I was 47, and would turn 48 before Our Endless Numbered Days was published in February this year. I read lists celebrating debut authors under 40 from heavyweight publications such as the New Yorker and Granta, and discovered book prizes whose cut-off age I had passed more than a decade previously. I felt old, as well as saggy. Related: Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller review – a post-apocalyptic debut with a twist Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, at 50, is not the average age of a debut author. But the public school teacher describes herself as a “literary debutante” with the October publication of “My Monticello.” Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2021-09-28 13:06:03 UTC ]
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Puffin has acquired a "heart-warming" debut picture book by writer and journalist Freddy McConnell, illustrated by Rosalind Beardshaw. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-23 19:01:01 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton has bagged two crime novels by Australian writer Shelley Burr, including her debut Wake. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-14 03:48:01 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan has snapped up two books from debut author and former family lawyer Nora Murphy. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-12 17:22:46 UTC ]
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Journalist Stig Abell has signed a three-book deal with HarperCollins, including his crime fiction debut and one non-fiction title. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-07 18:18:52 UTC ]
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Cipher Press has acquired Nat Reeve's "extraordinary, ambitious" historical debut Nettleblack and its sequel in a two-book deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-23 14:07:08 UTC ]
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Daisy Lafarge's Paul (Granta) came out on top as this week's most reviewed title, picking up mentions in the Guardian, Observer, Evening Standard, i, Irish Times, Scotsman, Independent, Telegraph and The Bookseller. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-23 05:08:13 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan has signed In a New York Minute from podcaster, comedian and debut novelist Kate Spencer in a two-book deal Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-11 02:47:56 UTC ]
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Dark fantasy author Scarlett St. Clair will join Bloom Books, which will publish her new novel 'King of Battle and Blood,' along with her complete backlist and forthcoming new books. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-07-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Newly recruited Virago publishing director Anna Kelly has made her first acquisition for the imprint with Harvard student Becca Rothfeld’s debut essay collection All Things Are Too Small. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-07-16 22:35:16 UTC ]
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Elle McNicoll has been named overall winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2021 for her debut novel A Kind of Spark (Knights Of). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-30 15:03:18 UTC ]
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Avon Books has acquired Sarah Goodwin's debut Stranded, plus one more untitled novel. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-25 00:42:01 UTC ]
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Nathan Harris sets his novel in Georgia during the murky twilight of the Civil War. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-06-15 07:08:15 UTC ]
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A panel of executives from Bookshop.org, Libro.fm, and IndieCommerce discussed ways in which booksellers could use their platforms to take full advantage of the shifts in consumer behavior since the pandemic began. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-05-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Meghan, Duchess of Sussex has written a children's book for Penguin Random House called The Bench, about the “special bond between father and son as seen through a mother’s eyes”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-05-04 02:52:11 UTC ]
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Hodder Studio will publish the first book by broadcaster, podcaster and writer Mehreen Baig about her decade’s teaching experience. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-04-28 15:20:15 UTC ]
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Social media is now a vital platform to promote new titles. And that means jacket designs that hit you ‘hard and quick’Last week’s big literary event was not the publication of a new book, the million-pound signing of a celebrity author or the announcement of a prestigious prize. Instead, it was... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-04-18 09:00:04 UTC ]
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Bonnier Books UK's new digital-first imprint Embla Books has bought Laura Starkey's debut, Rachel Ryan’s Resolutions, as its first acquisition. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-03-22 11:15:26 UTC ]
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Pan Mac's Tor imprint has snapped up a debut novel described as a gothic masterpiece from Hiron Ennes in a two-book deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-08 06:05:56 UTC ]
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Has this Google lawyer written the book of the year? The part-time author talks about the inspiration for her thriller about siblings who flee abusive parents and their ‘house of horror’Abigail Dean was about to turn 30 when she suddenly realised that her job as a lawyer was using up all the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-01-25 06:00:07 UTC ]
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