Novel Incubator’s Very Good Year
2023 was a very good year for Novel Incubator. Eleven alums were published and more are waiting in the wings for 2024. Looking for a good read to welcome the new year? Here are the Novel Incubator books that came…
Category: Historical Novel
Author Shilpi Suneja Discusses Her Epic Debut HOUSE OF CARAVANS
One family burdened with division over three generations. Shilpi Suneja‘s debut novel, House of Caravans (September 2023, Milkweed Editions), chronicles the birth of Pakistan and an independent India with grace, scrutiny, and depth. Somehow, she manages this saga in just…
Kathryn Crawley Talks About Her Debut Novel, “Walking on Fire”
In her debut novel, “Walking on Fire,” author Kathryn Crawley tapped into her early career in speech pathology when she worked at a center in Thessaloniki for Greek children with cerebral palsy from 1974 to 1976.The novel features Kate, from…
Author Katherine Sherbrooke Gives us a Peek into The Hidden Life of Aster Kelly
When a runway model in 1940s Hollywood makes a split-second decision meant to protect those she loves, she triggers a cascade of secrets and lies that threaten to upend her life decades later. Following up on her Massachusetts Book Award winning…
Interview with Rachel Heng, Author of THE GREAT RECLAMATION
A novel of resources and exploitation, of protest and compromise, of dreams and sacrifice, Rachel Heng‘s The Great Reclamation follows Ah Boon from boyhood—when his discovery of plentiful fish around mysterious islands shores up his fishing village—through World War II, Japanese…
Eulogy for an Unpublished Novel
Let’s start with the good news before we get to the complicated feelings: my debut novel Lightborne is coming out next year. And I am ecstatic! Lightborne is a historical novel about Christopher Marlowe, an Elizabethan playwright and contemporary of…