My Untitled Secret: A Guest Post by Hannah Deitch
An SAT tutor becomes a fugitive within moments in this breakneck thriller from a debut author. Hannah Deitch has penned…
Debut Novels
Haunted: A Guest Post by Margie Sarsfield
Millennial malaise and engrossing eco-horror are at the heart of this Minnesota beet farm. Read on for an exclusive essay…
Delicious, Cozy and Murderous: A Guest Post by Asako Yuzuki and Gabriella Doob
The ultimate cat-and-mouse thriller starring a serial killer chef and the hungry young journalist craving to learn her secrets. Set…
The Key Images of My Story: A Guest Post by Siân Hughes
Has a homework assignment ever changed your life? The earliest beginnings of the story that would become Siân Hughes’ debut…
Mysticism and Mass Hysteria: A Q&A with Ruby Todd, Author of Bright Objects
Ruby Todd joined blog writer Isabelle McConville to talk all about her debut novel Bright Objects. Read on for an…
Going Home: A Guest Post by Santiago Jose Sanchez
A story about living between two continents, two cultures and two different identities. Hombrecito soars off the page and introduces…
The Stuff That Life Is Made Of: A Q&A With Freddie Kölsch, Author of Now, Conjurers
We love celebrating debut authors — and Freddie Kölsch’s hauntingly atmospheric tale of horror and grief, identity and community has…
Our Discover Prize Winner 2023
This is what I told the crowd who joined us at our store on the Upper West Side of New…
Emily X.R. Pan’s debut novel The Astonishing Color of After Soars
In Emily X.R. Pan’s debut novel, Leigh Chen Sanders feels things in color. The “cold cerulean” of grief, the “puke…
13 Authors Share Insights from Their Debut Year
An author’s debut year is a wild time, in which the book that previously lived a quiet laptop life is…
In Caraval, a Circus of Dreams May Be a Nightmare
Any number of fairy tales start with a young woman, miserable with the helplessness of the life laid out before…
5 Ways Louise Gornall’s Under Rose-Tainted Skies will Wreck Your Soul
2017 is going to be a stellar year for YA books if Louise Gornall’s Under Rose-Tainted Skies, released yesterday, is…
The Square Root of Summer, and 4 More Books to Read Once You’ve Devoured It
Just when you think you’ve got life figured out, the world throws you for a loop. And for Gottie H.…
Authors Brittany Cavallaro and Alex Kahler Dish About Being Boarding School Buddies
You may know Brittany Cavallaro from her excellent Sherlock Holmes–inspired debut, A Study in Charlotte. You may know Alex Kahler…