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Question & Agent: Mariah Stovall of Trellis Literary Management
1+ hour, 26+ min ago (982+ words) Welcome to Debutiful's Agent Week! We gathered some of our favorite literary agents representing the most exciting debut books and asked them questions about what makes them love a submission, their agenting style, and the books they're working on. Mariah…...
Question & Agent: Emma Dries from Triangle House
1+ day, 12+ min ago (301+ words) Welcome to Debutiful's Agent Week! We gathered some of our favorite literary agents representing the most exciting debut books and asked them questions about what makes them love a submission, their agenting style, and the books they're working on. Emma…...
Che Yeun, author of Tailbone, wishes she read more 19th and 20th century Korean history as a teen
2+ day, 6+ min ago (327+ words) Che Yeun's debut novel, Tailbone, follows a teenager who runs away from her abusive home to live in a boarding house for single women as a global financial crash threatens the people of Seoul. Heralded by the great Alexander Chee…...
Question and Agent: Amanda Orozco of Transatlantic Agency
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (352+ words) Welcome to Debutiful's Agent Week! We gathered some of our favorite literary agents representing the most exciting debut books and asked them questions about what makes them love a submission, their agenting style, and the books they're working on. Amanda…...
Question & Agent: Stephanie Delman of Trellis Literary Management
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (217+ words) Welcome to Debutiful's Agent Week! We gathered up some of our favorite literary agents representing the most exciting debut books and asked them some questions about what makes them love a submission, their agenting style, and what books they're working…...
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1+ week, 5+ hour ago (13+ words) Gone Girl is the guide for Kirsten King, author of A Good Person'Debutiful...
Corey Ann Haydu deeply thought about motherhood and friendship while writing Mothers and Other Strangers
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (89+ words) We asked her to answer our recurring My Reading Life Q&A so readers could get to know the books that shaped her life and influenced her writing. What was the first book you were obsessed with as a child?...
12 noteworthy debut books to read in April 2026
1+ week, 1+ day ago (924+ words) From the publisher: A lyrical and suspenseful debut novel about a mysteriously gifted Korean family confronting the brutality of the Japanese empire, Honey in the Wound is an epic tale of survival and the reclamation of power. I can't remember…...
See the cover for Those Who Vanish'by Patricia Grace King
1+ week, 2+ day ago (351+ words) Patricia Grace King, winner of the 2026 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, grew up in western North Carolina and has since lived in Spain, Guatemala, and the UK, where she now resides. Her short fiction has won the short fiction has won…...
5 Novels about Women and Space, Recommended by Eliana Ramage
1+ week, 2+ day ago (926+ words) There are not a lot of books about women in space! Roughly 100 women have been there (out of roughly 700 total'roughly because there is disagreement on where "space" begins). Now compare that to the roughly 8 billion of us alive today. And…...