![]() Bottomland follows the Hess family in the years after World War I as they attempt to rid themselves of the Anti-German sentiment that left a stain on their name but when the youngest two daughters vanish in the middle of the night, the family must piece together what happened while struggling to maintain their life on the unforgiving Iowa plains. Michelle Hoover’s second novel, Bottomland, also arrived in 2016.Want to know more? Read Publisher’s Weekly review. The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living is the story of a train wreck pastry chef who finds the family she didn’t know she was looking for while competing in the cutthroat world of county fair baking contests. In 2016, Louise Miller’s debut novel, The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living, came out in August, the first of a two-book deal with Pamela Dorman/Viking/Penguin.Patricia Park’s Re Jane, a contemporary take on Jane Eyre, and Stephanie Gayle’s mystery, Idyll Threats: A Thomas Lynch Novel, the first of a series, rounds out the list through 2015. Jennie Wood published A Boy Like Me, named one of the 10 Best Indie YA Novels of 2014 by Foreward Review, as well as graphic novels, Flutter I and Flutter II. Lisa Borders came out with her second novel, The Fifty-First State. Emily Ross published true crime novel Half in Love with Death. Moore published two historical fiction novels, An Unseemly Wife and Stones in the Road, both with New American Library/Penguin. Confetti and high-fives to the authors of our first Incubee babies: E.B.The Holy Grail, Oz, as it were, is publication! From 2014 to 2015, The Incubees published nine novels to terrific reviews: ![]() Tracey Palmer signed with Ayesha Pande of Pande Literary Agency in November for her novel with the working title of The Eight-Sided Heart.Sharissa Jones is with Liz Darhansoff of Darhansoff & Verrill for her novel, Husked.Robert Fernandes signed with Erin Harris of Folio Literary Agency, for his novel, A Big Box Full of YEAH! a story about what happens when a man who is stuck in the mud of his daily existence develops an infatuation with his new neighbor and is then presented with proof of the fast-approaching end of the world.Rachel Barenbaum secured agent Eve Attermann at WME for her novel, The Measure of Time.Writers query anywhere from 50 agents to 150 agents before getting to Yes, is the reported “industry standard.” In 2016, Getting an agent, a capital A Agent, is a significant accomplishment all by its lonesome. It was also a winner of the Writer’s Digest Lucky Agent Contest in the Literary/Book Club category (judged by Annie Hwang of Folio Literary Management). Julie Carrick Dalton’s novel, The Poacher’s Code, won the Sun vs.Jennie Wood’s Flutter, Volume Two received a VLA Diversity Honor Award.Emily Ross’s Half in Love with Death was a finalist for Best YA Novel in the International Thriller Writers Organization’s 2016 Thriller Awards.Alison Murphy won the James Jones First Novel Fellowship Award Winner 2016 and a cool 10,000 dollars.Founded by novelist and GrubStreet’s artistic director, Christopher Castellani, and developed with novelists and Grub instructors, Lisa Borders and Michelle Hoover, the Incubator takes 10 students per year and focuses intensively on the novel. Forty-nine Incubees have graduated since its 2011-12 pilot.Ģ016 saw four more Incubees agented, four more earned prizes, two more published novels, and two additional Incubee books are due out in 2017. ![]() As you may know, Dead Darlings, “the site for everything novel,” is a production of GrubStreet’s year-long program, the Novel Incubator. ![]()
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