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August 11, 2023

WE ARE A HAUNTING by Tyriek White was longlisted for the Center for Fiction's 2023 First Novel Prize. The shortlist will be announced this fall, and the winner will be announced on December 5, 2023 at The Center for Fiction Annual Awards Benefit. Astra House published the book on April 25, 2023.

August 11, 2023

Lakiesha Carr's debut novel AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SKIN was longlisted for the Center for Fiction's 2023 First Novel Prize. The shortlist will be announced this fall, and the winner will be announced on December 5, 2023 at The Center for Fiction Annual Awards Benefit. Pantheon published the book on February 28, 2023.

August 11, 2023

Financial Times gave Idra Novey's TAKE WHAT YOU NEED a rave review. Reviewer Arin Keeble writes: "[TAKE WHAT YOU NEED] depicts the complexities of a contemporary America whose divisions are often crudely defined. It is an excoriating critique of the violence of MAGA culture that also urges caution at the assumptions one might make of those caught in its currents...That Novey is a novelist, poet, translator and professor is unsurprising, as this textured and compelling novel is redolent of a real depth of experience. TAKE WHAT YOU NEED is a major novel of contemporary America that urgently reminds us of the messiness and complexity of people, love and intimacy." The novel was also reviewed in Spectator, where reviewer Susie Mesure raves: "On the strength of Novey’s third novel, TAKE WHAT YOU NEED, an adept tale about an estranged stepmother and daughter set in a fictional former steel town in Appalachia, all writers should heed her advice. In spare, affecting prose, she moves effortlessly between her two first-person narrators…Novey’s own fairy tale similarities are plentiful and purposeful as she explores the polarisations in American society alongside what it means to ‘make art.’" Meanwhile, Granta published Novey’s short story “Conversations with My Father.” Viking published the book on March 14, 2023.

August 11, 2023

Molly Dektar's THE ABOLUTES received a wonderful review from Kristen Arnett in The Washington Post, who raves: “Wanting to be seen only as one’s most perfect self is a thrilling through line in this novel…There is much to admire in the way Dektar delves headlong into this delayed adolescence….It’s a riveting thing, desire; THE ABSOLUTES asks you to consider what matters more: the moment the stone is dropped into the pool or the ripples that spread across the surface long after the stone has sunk out of sight. Either answer could be right.” Mariner Books published the novel on July 11, 2023.

August 11, 2023

Ed Park’s SAME BED DIFFERENT DREAMS was included on The Millions and Literary Hub’s respective roundups for the second half of 2023. Random House will publish the novel on November 7, 2023.

August 11, 2023

Country Living’s fall roundup calls Anna Pitoniak’s THE HELSINKI AFFAIR a “must-read for fans of spy thrillers.” Simon & Schuster publish will publish the book on November 14, 2023.

July 21, 2023

The mass market edition of BLACK DOG by Stuart Woods debuted at #15 on The New York Times Mass Market bestseller list for July 2023. G.P. Putnam’s Sons published the hardcover edition on August 2, 2022, and the mass market edition on May 23, 2023.

July 14, 2023

HELL IF WE DON'T CHANGE OUR WAYS by Brittany Means received a starred Kirkus Review. The reviewer calls the book "[a] potent reflection on emerging from a nomadic youth marked by trauma into an adulthood containing stability and tenderness,” adding: “As Means brings hazy memories into focus for herself and readers, she constructs a method of thinking about, owning, and releasing her past as well as a fresh way of writing about personal trauma that both acknowledges victimhood and resists the simplicity of sensationalism and pity. This book is an outstanding debut that finds resolution while also leaving plenty of intriguing themes to explore in her future work. A harrowing and soulful memoir to be read, savored, and reread.” Zibby Books will publish the memoir on October 3, 2023.

July 7, 2023

Danielle Steel’s latest novel, PALAZZO, debuted on The New York Times Bestsellers list for the week of July 16, 2023, appearing at #6 on the Print Hardcover Fiction list and #12 on the Combined Print & E-Book Fiction list. Delacorte Press published the novel on June 27, 2023.

June 30, 2023

National Jeweler featured Ronald Winston’s forthcoming KING OF DIAMONDS: “[R]eaders will get one perspective on the protracted years-long battle between [Harry] Winston’s sons, Ronald and Bruce Winston, that culminated in the company’s sale about two decades after Harry’s death in 1978…KING OF DIAMONDS recounts Harry’s incredible legacy from the ultimate insider’s view, as Harvard-educated son Ronald forewent a career in chemistry and rocket propulsion to work alongside Harry in the family business at the patriarch’s behest.” Skyhorse will publish the book on September 19, 2023.