About Tracey Palmer
Tracey Palmer is a freelance writer and founder of Palmer Communications. She's editor of Dead Darlings and a regular contributor to WBUR's Cognoscenti. A scholarship graduate of Grub Street’s Novel Incubator, Tracey's first, unpublished novel was named a finalist in the Writer’s League of Texas manuscript competition. She was a scholarship recipient at the Salty Quill Writers Retreat and selected to attend the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She's currently working on a gritty, literary novel about a a deeply damaged and disillusioned solider who returns from Afghanistan to a son who despises her—and the stark realization that her real enemy is herself.
What is your book about? Jamis Bachman never stays in one place for too long. Retired from the reality TV show Ghastly Incidents, she’s now a social media sensation, chasing ghosts, demons, and interdimensional aliens―in an effort to avoid her own.
“Outstanding…Pisarcik is a writer to watch.” —Publishers Weekly starred review What is your book about? Before Familiar Woods is set in a small Vermont town that’s plagued by the heroin epidemic. At the heart of the novel is a reclusive…
Welcome to the first, of what we hope will be many, Virtual Book Tour interviews on Dead Darlings! We’re excited to introduce you to author Andrew Altschul, who worked on his novel, The Gringa (Melville House, 2020) for eight years…
Your novel is about to be published. Yay! All that hard work is finally paying off. Your first reading is announced, your launch party guests are invited, your coast-to-coast book tour is scheduled…and then, a worldwide pandemic strikes. All bets…
In Marley, Jon Clinch brings back to life the famous ghost, Jacob Marley, who appears before Ebenezer Scrooge on Christmas Eve. Wrapped in chains, he warns Scrooge of the dangers of not changing his cold-hearted ways. But why? How did Scrooge become…
Authentic characters and a strong sense of place drive Lisa Duffy’s second novel, This is Home (Atria, 2019). Following up on her debut, The Salt House, Duffy’s new book is about Quinn, a woman struggling to understand why her husband,…