What a wonderful weekend surprise to wake up to an Open Book feature from Louisa Ermelino in Publishers Weekly, with cameos and insight from my amazing agent, Julie Barer, and my brilliant editor, Andrea Walker. “A marvel: absorbing, addictive, informative,” Ermelino says of the book. I am barely resisting the impulse to put a full line of exclamation points after . . .
I’m delighted and honored to share early praise for Ancestor Trouble from Garrard Conley and Alexis Coe, two more amazing writers who took time from their own important work to read my book and say nice things.
I always believed that as an intuitive writer I couldn’t stick to an outline, but I was wrong. The loose structure I came up with when I started writing Ancestor Trouble was my guiding light. If you’re curious, I write a little bit about my book’s structure and table of contents in my latest newsletter. I’d also like to thank Honorée . . .
Supply chain issues are hitting books hard, and if there are new ones you’d like to order for yourself or as gifts for the holidays, it sounds like it would be a good idea to place the orders now. Here are a few of the new books I love (and have mentioned in recent newsletters), if you’re not sure where . . .