It’s hard to believe A Bend in the Stars (Grand Central, 2019) is Rachel Barenbaum’s debut. This beautifully written literary novel is many things—a historical thriller about physics, a gritty look at the plight of Russian Jews in 1914 Russia,…
November 24 is Small Business Saturday. In honor of the event, we talked with our favorite small businesses…independent bookstores. Of course, publishers, publicity agents, reviews, Goodreads, and Amazon all play an important role in promoting debut authors and driving sales….
Geraldine McCaughrean (pronounced Muh-cork-run) is not a household name, like that other British children’s mega-author you might have heard of. But Geraldine is actually more prolific and has won far more literary awards than that other celebrity writer. She’s penned more…
To say that Ladee Hubbard has an original imagination is an understatement. Her inventive debut novel, The Talented Ribkins (Melville House, 2017) is wild ride—part superhero quest, part thriller, part, well…you’ll see. The book tells the story of Johnny Ribkins,…
Bangladeshi-Canadian writer Arif Anwar’s splash onto the literary scene has been remarkable. His debut novel, The Storm, has been published in Canada by HarperCollins, in the US by Simon & Schuster, and in India by Aleph. It is also slated…
This fall, PBS is running a program called “The Great American Read.” Earlier this year, they asked 7,000 readers to name their favorite works of fiction. The alphabetical list of 100 (not ranked) was then culled by a panel of…