Debut Novels

Creating a novel is tough. Until you get the hang of it, it can be hard to do the Proustian thing.

Despite the occasional flop of a follow-up to a mega-selling debut novel, usually an author's second novel is better. But because of the review bias toward the "debut" novel, you might not know this.

Deborah Cloyed's The Summer We Came to Life is a surprising and ambitious debut novel. I spoke to her recently about her inspirations for the novel, and how much of it is drawn from her own remarkable life.

There's something about vagabonds that intrigues us. People who live on the edge of society, who eschew our modes of beauty and respectability, tend t...

As any emerging writer knows, while the road to publication is tough and the obstacles many, there is no emotion to compare with holding your book in ...

Today Amazon.com and Penguin Group announced the winners of the 2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards. Patricia McArdle won the general fiction catego...