Sentences with phrase «debut fiction»

I'm encouraged to hear there's still a lookout for debut fiction.

Our month - long celebration of debut fiction may be ending today, but there are plenty of new voices to look forward to this fall.

From historical novels to literary fiction to mysteries that will keep you up all night, here's a look at the best debut fiction of the season.

One thing I looked for in particular was agents who were actively selling debut fiction.

Read recent books, especially debut fiction, in your area.

For example, the mainstream media is unlikely to publish reviews of self published books, and this is especially true for debut fiction.

His first novel, Where Things Come Back is the winner of the 2012 Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature and the 2012 William C. Morris Debut Fiction Award Whaley was named a Spring 2011 Flying Start Author by Publishers Weekly as well as a Top Ten New Voice for Teens by the ABC Children's Group at ALA and a Spring 2011 Okra Pick from the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance.

But Rees, whose debut fiction feature Pariah announced her impressive talent as a director in 2011, has a gift for smaller, multilayered moments, like Henry's transgression in asking Hap to help bury his father.

Excitingly up to the minute, the film is a bold, impressive step up for writer - director Mike Cahill, whose debut fiction film three years ago was a ponderous and unsatisfying sci - fi effort, «Another Earth.»

Take an early look at debut fiction coming this Spring from Penguin Random House.

Read exclusive excerpts from the novels and story collections of debut fiction writers Courtney Maum, Scott Cheshire, Celeste Ng, Yelena Akhtiorskaya, and Mira Jacob.

There is, in fact, a very specific «Plan B,» if you will, available to Eberhardt clients, most of whom are in debut fiction.

The 18 awards cover categories from debut fiction to science writing to essays, and this year the various judging panels included the likes of Cheryl Strayed, Jonathan Dee, Terry McMillan, Ariel Levy, E.L. Doctorow and Zadie Smith.

Most debut fiction titles first appear on bookstore shelves as a cloth bound hardcover with a dust jacket — likewise for debut titles in the history, biography, science, and social studies genres.

Vintage is launching its lead debut fiction title of the summer, Kirsty Logan's The Gracekeepers, with an interview on BBC Radio 2's «Simon Mayo Book... Read more

It won the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year, the Indie Awards Debut Fiction Book of the Year and the Victorian Premier's People's Choice Award, and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Her debut novel, Murder at Castle Rock, won the inaugural Decatur Book Festival Writing Contest in 2012, as well as the 2013 Book Junkie's Choice Award for Best Debut Fiction Novel.

The book also won the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award and the California Book Award for First Fiction.

From literary fiction to thrillers to reimagined classics, our Spring 2018 Debut Fiction Sampler is filled with fresh new voices that will appeal to every reader at your library.

Marisa Silver made her fiction debut in The New Yorker when she was featured in that magazine's first Debut Fiction issue.

Tell me, fellow writers, do you know of any recent debut fiction authors who found an agent by cold querying?

Eileen By Ottessa Moshfegh Penguin • $ 16 • ISBN 9780143128755 Moshfegh's haunting portrait of lonely Eileen Dunlop and a pivotal week in her life as a secretary at a boy's prison won the PEN / Hemingway debut fiction award and has been longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize.

This year's debut fiction roundup features emerging writers Zinzi Clemmons, Hala Alyan, Jess Arndt, Lisa Ko, and Diksha Basu.

Longlisted for 2018 PEN / Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction Kirkus Reviews's Best Fiction of 2017 Kirkus Reviews's Best Debut Novels...

«Editors still love a chance at debut fiction,» says Manhattan literary agent Michelle Brower.

The honorees represent «a selection of debut fiction writers under the age of 35 whose work promises to leave a lasting impression on the literary landscape.»

Agents hate them in debut fiction, so for first timers — no prologues is a good rule.

Our Literary Agents Issue features an in - depth interview with agent Eric Simonoff; an expert look at the query letter that landed an agent; a Q&A with popular novelist Neil Gaiman; an introduction to the authors of the summer's best debut fiction; tips from the stage on how to give an inspired reading; submission information for more than fifty - five contests with upcoming deadlines; and much more.

Since 1990 Sam has worked at literary magazines, small presses and with New York Times bestselling authors, editing and representing everything from debut fiction, memoir and narrative non-fiction to graphic novels.

Check out how they want to be approached and be ready with the best possible query letter, proposal, sample pages or, in the case of most debut fiction, the entire manuscript.

It was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Prize and the British Book Industry Awards Debut Fiction Book of the Year.

This «debut fiction novel» by Peter Golden surpasses a 5 - star rating in this reader's opinion!

The book also won the California Book Award for First Fiction, the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award, and was a Lambda finalist.

Click to Read Our Spring 2018 Debut Fiction Sampler.

I recently interviewed Brower and Marsal, both on the list of top dealmakers for debut fiction at Publisher's Marketplace.

Consider Bennett Miller, another classic wunderkind (although one who got started at a later age — his debut fiction film Capote came out when he was 39).

He mentions a short - story collection, Godforsaken Idaho, by author Shawn Vestal, which last month won the PEN / Robert Bingham award for debut fiction.

Cherise Wolas's acclaimed first novel, The Resurrection of Joan Ashby, was a New York Times Book Review Editors» Choice and a semi-finalist for the 2018 PEN / Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction.

Heart - rending stories of life and death: a debut fiction collection by the award - winning author of The Undertaking.

Panels of expert judges (all indie booksellers and avid readers) will choose the winners in the five book categories — Fiction, Debut Fiction, Non-Fiction, Children's and Young Adult.

Foreign Soil won Literary Fiction Of the Year, Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) 2015, Debut Fiction, Indie Book Awards 2015, and the Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award 2013.

Her first book, Mrs. Kimble, won the 2004 PEN / Hemingway Award for debut fiction.

Each year, the National Book Foundation honors five debut fiction writers under the age of thirty - five years whose work «promises to leave a lasting impression on the literary landscape.»

Her debut novel, A Partial History of Lost Causes, was the winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction and the Northern California Book Award for Fiction, and was a finalist for the PEN / Hemingway Prize for Debut Fiction.

With US debuts from established international authors to novels from emerging writers, this debut fiction feature has a deep bench.

I've just come across a debut fiction deal that I think will appeal to BookPage readers (perhaps the same readers who have loved Marilyn Johnson's This Book Is Overdue!

2014 National Jewish Book Finalist for Debut Fiction.

Thank you for submitting your work to the Oxford American's call for debut fiction.

Debut fiction is very saleable!