Next Chapters: Karen Wilfrid
Current Project: forthcoming middle grade novel Just Lizzie about a teenage girl discovering her asexual identity
Category: Debut Novel
Kate Fussner Talks About Her Debut Novel-In-Verse, The Song of Us
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,…
Meet Nancy Crochiere, Author of GRACELAND
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…
Pick up Becky Chalsen’s Kismet and Dream of Summer!
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…
Next Chapters: Nancy Crochiere
Next Chapters is a biweekly feature spotlighting graduates of GrubStreet’s Novel Incubator program, which has been running since 2010. Novel Incubator Year: 8 Current Project: forthcoming novel Graceland, about a comic road trip involving three generations of women. What book…
Eulogy for an Unpublished Novel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…