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Fantastic Debut Novelist Interview #1: Virginia’s Own Lydia Netzer
Did you happen to notice that of the fifty-three fiction and poetry books chosen as Notable in 2012 by The New York Times seven are debut novels? That seems like a pretty high percentage to me....
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Jennifer Spiegel: Two Books in One Year, Not Bad for a Beginner
Out of the blue, author Jennifer Spiegel wrote to me and said that she had pitched to interview with me to The Nervous Breakdown and they had agreed! What a great way to make a new friend. Jennifer was...
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David Abrams: Debut Novelist and Literary Citizen Extraordinaire
David Abrams’ debut novel about the Iraq War, Fobbit, was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2012 and a Best Book of 2012 by Paste Magazine, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Barnes & Noble. It was...
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Megan Mayhew Bergman
Birds of a Lesser Paradise made a splash when it came out in March, 2012. It’s not easy to be noticed for a debut novel, more of less for a short story collection which tend to have a smaller...
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Kim Church Talks About Byrd
I’ve loved getting to know Kim Church, whose debut novel, Byrd, came out earlier this year from Dzanc Books. I’ve admired Dzanc for years and have enjoyed every book I’ve read from them, so I wasn’t...
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Anjali Mitter Duva’s Debut Novel of Ancient India
At The Muse and the Marketplace writers’ conference earlier this month, I enjoyed an historical fiction panel featuring several authors, including debut novelist Anjali Mitter Duva. Bret Anthony...
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