So excited to share that an excerpt of my novel in progress won the Gulf Coast Prize for Fiction this year!! I'm incredibly grateful to @Gulf_Coast and @rachelhengqp for selecting my work. Thank you! 🙏https://t.co/IxrxMQUIsn
★ Marissa Higgins shines in this sharp-witted novel of women behaving badly. The question of parenthood haunts the three women, like a destination without a map, and the final reveal is a knockout. @catapult https://t.co/J3bVndu3d9
Irena Rey is an Indie Next pick—again!! Only six paperbacks a month make it onto this fantastic list compiled by independent booksellers. And since independent booksellers are the smartest people I know about contemporary fiction, this is the highest prize I could possibly get!
Query PSA: I'm finally done reading & requesting all queries from 2024 (yes, I know)! I really do read and respond to every one, and my timing has nothing to do with the quality of your work. So thanks for your submissions...and patience!
I'm so honored and amazed that my novel is one of @WSJ's ten best books of the year. Hundreds of thousands of books are published every year! How could my humble ode to languages and forests be among the best? Thanks to @TobyLichtig for this lovely review. https://t.co/egEeg32Wvx
HOW TO SEE THE SKY is part hopeful ode and part guidebook to rediscovering the sky and reorienting our lives. Grateful for Paul’s wisdom, vision and trust! 💫
Thrilled to share this incredible news of my next book: How to See the Sky: The Newest Science, the Oldest Questions, and Why They Matter for Life. Huge thanks to @grimmlit and to @bizmitchell at @harperonebooks for immediately seeing the possibilities for telling this story.
I'm convinced he bought this site to tank it because it was Too Powerful, so sticking it out here until the bitter end
(but also claimed my name on the🦋 just in case)
Thanks to all the queriers for providing me a good distraction this week! To answer your questions: when in (reasonable) doubt, query. The worst that can happen is a form rejection letter...
Safe to say that after years of receiving death threats and other literal nonsense, I'm not precious about my inbox. Your maybe too genre or commercial novel is just fine!
Looking for literary to upmarket fiction and narrative non-fiction that’s ambitious and sticky and can momentarily distract from the world’s horrors but ultimately deepens our relationship with ourselves and fortifies us to engage with and fight for humanity.
In the midst of our slide into fascism and imminent environmental collapse, it seems like a great time to reopen to queries over on Query Manager #amquerying#MSWL