Romance. Action. Magic. Debut author Dana Swift’s Cast in Firelight has it all, and more. In her fast-paced YA fantasy, we follow the paths of two young royals with magical skills given to them by the nine gods. Heirs to…
“When someone says you’re overreacting, but you know you’re right, keep reacting until it’s over.” That’s the motto of Cadie Kessler, the protagonist in Julie Carrick Dalton’s debut novel, Waiting for the Night Song. Cadie is desperate to prove an…
Megan Collins, author of The Winter Sister—which Kirkus Reviews called “bewitching”— is back with another psychological thriller Behind The Red Door, the story of a young woman, Fern Douglas, who returns to her hometown as news breaks that Astrid Sullivan,…
Anna Solomon’s The Book of V. is a marvel. It’s both expansive and tightly woven, intensely intimate and shared. It braids the individual stories of three women—Lily in 2016 Brooklyn, Vee in Watergate-era Washington D.C., and Esther in ancient Persia—into a…
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,…
On Tuesday, May 14th, 2019 at 7PM, Craft on Draft, a reading series developed by Grub Street’s Novel Incubator alumni, presents Writing Your Novel’s Murky Middle at Belmont Books, 79 Leonard St. Belmont, MA. We invite all to attend this…