John Vercher’s debut, Three-Fifths, is a riveting crime story told with touches of poetry, razor-sharp characterizations, and the sort of cinematic pacing that keeps you on the edge of your seat. It’s also a powerful narrative about family, friendship, and…
If I had to recommend only one book this year, it would hands down be Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips. This beautiful and atmospheric novel set on Kamchatka, a peninsula in the east of Russia, opens with the abduction of…
Little Voices, Vanessa Lillie’s debut thriller, is the story of a woman searching for her friend’s murderer not long after experiencing a horrific birth. When her close friend Belina is found brutally murdered and the main suspect is another friend…
The truth: Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne’s debut novel, Holding On To Nothing, made me cry. Not many novels have this effect on me and so it is no exaggeration when I say that her beautiful, tragic characters sucked me in and…
Do I actually want another baby? Or am I just so full of fear over the prospective publication of my debut novel that I want the purity of focus that caring for a newborn affords? I love babies. Always have….
Dead Darlings is delighted to introduce one of our own, 2014 Novel Incubator graduate Mark Guerin. His dazzling debut, You Can See More From Up Here (Golden Antelope Press), releases today. I had the pleasure of interviewing Mark about his…