Next Chapters is a biweekly feature spotlighting graduates of GrubStreet’s Novel Incubator program, which has been running since 2010. Novel Incubator Year: 10 Current Project: forthcoming middle grade novel Just Lizzie about a teenage girl discovering her asexual identity Tell…
A “verse novel”, or “novel in verse”, is a novel-length narrative told via poetry. It also happens to be one of literature’s fastest-growing categories, extremely popular with young readers. The Song of Us is Kate Fussner’s debut novel in verse,…
In Nancy Crochiere’s hilarious debut, Graceland, a single mom is forced to chase her Elvis-obsessed mother and pink-haired teenaged daughter from Boston to Memphis to stop them from revealing a long-held secret. This madcap road-trip novel will make you laugh…
E. B. Moore’s Loose in the Bright Fantastic (available now) follows gray-haired Maggie as she escapes from the hospital, wearing only her johnny, an ancient mink, and her dead husband’s oversized wingtips. She’s on the loose in Boston’s Public Garden where…
Becky Chalsen’s debut novel, Kismet, set on a remote part of Fire Island, is the perfect book to take to the beach this summer. Available April 18 from Dutton, Kismet explores what happens to thirty-year-old Amy Sharp during the week…
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…