“How do we survive a body breaking and then taking us back home to the origin site of violence?…This is the story of a body not broken but reaching for beauty, a life not destroyed, but re-storied.” – Lidia Yuknavitch,…
Long before I was relearning fifth-grade math at our local “faux-school,” I was a fan of writerly podcasts. I devoured audio craft lessons and author interviews with the hopes they would crack open plot issues, shed light on the mysteries…
What is your middle-grade novel about? The Tantalizing Tale of Grace Minnaugh (Fitzroy Books) is about an eleven-year-old girl who reluctantly moves from the Midwest to Southern California. One fateful morning, while taking a predawn swim, Grace is caught in…
“A funny, witty caper filled with charm and unexpected friendship.”–Helen Simonson, New York Times bestselling author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand “[A] delightful debut…. A completely logical yet somehow unexpected ending will leave readers smiling—and looking forward to Fossey’s next…
Give us the elevator pitch for your book. The Astonishing Life of August March is a quirky, comedic, coming of age novel about a boy who was born and raised in a New York City theater during the middle of…
Give us the elevator pitch for your book. THE IMMORTALS OF TEHRAN is a magic-realistic, multi-generational saga of a family suffering under a mysterious curse, spanning from WWII to a few years after the 1979 revolution in Iran. The novel…