About Tracey Palmer
Tracey Palmer is a freelance writer and editor and founder of Palmer Communications. She's editor of Dead Darlings and a regular contributor to WBUR's Cognoscenti. A graduate of Grub Street’s Novel Incubator, Tracey's first, unpublished novel was named a finalist in the Writer’s League of Texas manuscript competition. She was a scholarship recipient at the Salty Quill Writers Retreat and selected to attend the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She's currently working on a literary novel about a disabled U.S. Army veteran of the War in Afghanistan, who comes home to a son she hardly knows.
“Outstanding…Pisarcik is a writer to watch.” —Publishers Weekly starred review What is your book about? Before Familiar Woods is set in a small Vermont town that’s plagued by the heroin epidemic. At the heart of the novel is a reclusive…
Welcome to the first, of what we hope will be many, Virtual Book Tour interviews on Dead Darlings! We’re excited to introduce you to author Andrew Altschul, who worked on his novel, The Gringa (Melville House, 2020) for eight years…
Your novel is about to be published. Yay! All that hard work is finally paying off. Your first reading is announced, your launch party guests are invited, your coast-to-coast book tour is scheduled…and then, a worldwide pandemic strikes. All bets…
In Marley, Jon Clinch brings back to life the famous ghost, Jacob Marley, who appears before Ebenezer Scrooge on Christmas Eve. Wrapped in chains, he warns Scrooge of the dangers of not changing his cold-hearted ways. But why? How did Scrooge become…
Authentic characters and a strong sense of place drive Lisa Duffy’s second novel, This is Home (Atria, 2019). Following up on her debut, The Salt House, Duffy’s new book is about Quinn, a woman struggling to understand why her husband,…
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,…