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Read an excerpt from Ways and Means by Daniel Lefferts

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Read an excerpt from Ways and Means by Daniel Lefferts

In his debut novel Ways and Means, Daniel Lefferts follows Alistair McCabe, a determined finance student aiming to escape Rust Belt poverty. By spring 2016, his dreams crumble amidst challenging job prospects, mounting student debt, and an unforeseen involvement with a malevolent billionaire. The novel is a dynamic exploration of class, ambition, relationships, and the complex interplay of sex, art, and politics in contemporary society.

Below is a short Q&A with Daniel Lefferts about Ways and Means, followed by an excerpt from the book.

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Read an excerpt from I Sing to Use the Waiting by Zachary Pace

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Read an excerpt from I Sing to Use the Waiting by Zachary Pace

In I Sing to Use the Waiting, Zachary Pace writes about how women singers shaped their coming-of-age and discovering their queerness. Throughout the collection, the writer explores a variety of topics, including an essay about how Disney’s Pocahontas reinforces racist, misogynistic, and homophobic views.

Below is a short Q&A with Zachary Pace about I Sing to Use the Waiting and the essay “Colors of the Wind.” An excerpt of the essay follows.

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Read an excerpt from Lookout by Christine Byl

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Read an excerpt from Lookout by Christine Byl

Christine Byl‘s first novel, Lookout, was a finalist for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. It follows a working class family across four decades of heartbreak, struggle, fire, and hope. Claire Boyles, author of Site Fidelity, said “each character’s struggle to live authentically is as rich and clearly rendered as the Montana landscape that sustains them.”

The following excerpt is from the first chapter, “Start Small,” which is set in July 1986. Readers find The Kinzler family – parents Josiah and Margaret and their children Cody and Louisa – in their small homestead in Northwest Montana.

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Read an excerpt from A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens by Raul Palma

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Read an excerpt from A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens by Raul Palma

Raul Palma‘s debut novel A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens is a genre-bending take on immigration, capitalism, and society through a lens of a magical realism ghost story. Palma follows a man named Hugo whose wife has died and a debt collector is hounding him. He uses his connection with spirits – one he doesn’t believe in – to pull some quick moves to get ahead in life. It all seems to be okay until… it isn’t.

Hialeah Gardens is an originally imaginative and sometimes quite hilarious book that will give readers something fresh that they haven’t really encountered before.

A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens is available now. You can read an excerpt from the novel below.

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Read an excerpt from Kill For Love by Laura Picklesimer

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Read an excerpt from Kill For Love by Laura Picklesimer

Laura Picklesimer’s writing will knock your socks off. Her debut novel Kill For Love is a visceral thriller bursting with satire and through-provoking commentary. It follows a sadistic sorority girl who has one desire: kill the hot boys at her school.

The book is dark and twisted in all of the right ways. Her debut is a pitch-perfect riot.

Prior to writing Kill for Love, her writing has appeared in the Santa Ana River Review, Bookwoman, Gold Man Review, the Pomona Valley Review the California Current Writers Series, and elsewhere. She has also won numerous writing contests including Enizagam Journal’s 2018 Fiction Contest

Kill for Love is available on September 12. You can read an excerpt below.

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Read an excerpt from the title story of Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go by Cleo Qian

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Read an excerpt from the title story of Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go by Cleo Qian

Cleo Qian is a surreal and enchanting writer whose work has appeared in The Guardian, Shenandoah, Pleiades, and The Common. She also was a winner of the Zoetrope: All Story Short Fiction Competition as well as being nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

It’s no surprise her debut collection Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go has been hailed as “Hypnotic” (TIME), “bold and enchanting” (Publisher’s Weekly), and “luminously written” (Kirkus). The stories explore modern Asian and Asian American women as they navigate the trials and tribulations of technology, redemption, fandom, and impulse.

Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go is available now. You can read the title story below.

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Read the title story from Rebecca Turkewitz’s debut story collection Here In The Night

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Read the title story from Rebecca Turkewitz’s debut story collection Here In The Night

Rebecca Turkewitz is a high school English teacher living in Portland, Maine. In addition to teaching, she is also a writer whose work has appeared in numerous publications including The Masters Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Electric Literature, and The New Yorker’s Daily Shouts.

Here in the Night, her debut story collection, features thirteen stories that are like R.L. Stine horror for adults. They’re dark, surreal, and will give you goosebumps. The atmosphere of every story is pitch perfect and are filled with memorable, fully-formed characters that you’ll love.

Here in the Night is available now. You can read the title story below.

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Read an excerpt from At the Edge of the Woods by Kathryn Bromwich

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Read an excerpt from At the Edge of the Woods by Kathryn Bromwich

Kathryn Bromwich, the author of At the Edge of the Woods, is a writer and editor based in London. Outside of fiction, she covers music, film, TV, books, art and more. She is currently the commissioning editor of The Observer and her writing has appeared in Little White Lies, Dazed, Vice, Time Out and The Independent.

Her novel is an absolute stunner about a woman living in a cabin in the woods of the Italian Alps. Bromwich follows the narrator’s life with beautiful writing that pairs well with the stark and unsettling plot that unfolds.

At the Edge of the Woods is available now. You can read an excerpt from chapters 10 and 11 below.

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Read an excerpt from The Night Flowers by Sara Herchenroether

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Read an excerpt from The Night Flowers by Sara Herchenroether

Sara Herchenroether mixed supernatural horror and crime to perfection in her debut thriller The Night Flowers. She follows two women trying to solve a gruesome cold case from the 1980s and along the twists and turns, readers discover a lot more about them as they inch closer and closer to solving the crime.

Detective Sergeant Jean Martinez and Laura MacDonald, a woman in the late stages of cancer treatment, are a formidable duo readers won’t soon forget. They shine in this atmospheric book that will have readers on the edge of their seats from page one.

The Night Flowers is out now. You can read an excerpt from the book below.

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Read an excerpt from We Are A Haunting by Tyriek White

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Read an excerpt from We Are A Haunting by Tyriek White

We Are A Haunting by Tyriek White is a poignant family drama that takes place over three decades. From a headstrong grandmother to a grieving grandson, the family at the center of White’s novel is haunted in many ways but they always have hope. Sometimes, however, hope is their own haunting. White’s lyrical prose and fully realized characters prove he is a writer firing on all cylinders. This ode to the hustle of the working class will leave readers breathless.

We Are A Haunting is out now. You can read an excerpt from the book below.

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