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See the cover for Road Show by Nikki Ervice

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See the cover for Road Show by Nikki Ervice

Nikki Ervice is the winner of the VQR Emily Clark Balch Prize for fiction, whose work has also appeared in The VQR, The Iowa Review, Colorado Review, Washington Square Review, and Passages North. Her debut novel, Roadshow, is set to be released on November 10, 2026, by Astra House.

Roadshow follows Annie, a burned-out New York performer who leaves behind her life of bartending and burlesque to drive cross-country to Alaska after receiving a letter from her mother, who abandoned her at birth. As her journey grows increasingly desperate and dangerous, Annie confronts questions of identity, inheritance, and survival while being pulled toward a final reckoning with her past. Blending grit and intimacy, the novel explores the cost of passion and the fragile ties between family, class, and selfhood.

Roadshow is available for pre-order now.

Debutiful is excited to reveal the cover, designed by Eli Mock, along with a Q&A with Ervice about how it was created.

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See the cover for All This Want (and I Can’t Get None) by T Clark

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See the cover for All This Want (and I Can’t Get None) by T Clark

T Clark is a writer whose short fiction have appeared in  Joyland, The Kenyon Review, American Short Fiction, The Offing, and Fourteen Hills. They received their MFA from Indiana University and support from Omi International Arts Center in Ghent, New York; the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown; the Lambda Literary Foundation; the Elizabeth George Foundation; the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing; and the Vermont Studio Center.

Their debut story collection All This Want (and I Can’t Get None)  explores the feverish hunger and dizzying pleasure of girlhood and queer coming-of-age in a small town. It will be published by One World on June 23, 2026 and is available for pre-order now.

Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover, which was designed by Michael Morris, along with a Q&A with Clark about its creation below.

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See the cover for Magdalena Is Brighter Than You Think by Grace Spulak

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See the cover for Magdalena Is Brighter Than You Think by Grace Spulak

Grace Spulak is a writer and attorney based in her home state of New Mexico with an MFA from Warren Wilson, who will be releasing her debut story collection, Magdalena Is Brighter Than You Think, from Autumn House on April 21, 2025. Magdalena is set largely in New Mexico and explores the complexities of gender, queerness, trauma, and resilience.

Debutiful is honored to reveal Magdalena Is Brighter Than You Think‘s cover, designed by Connie Amoroso, with art from Joel Becktell, along with a Q&A with Spulak about its creation.

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See the cover for Too Blessed to Stress by Alli Hoff Kosik

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See the cover for Too Blessed to Stress by Alli Hoff Kosik

In her debut novel, Too Blessed to Stress, Alli Hoff Kosik introduces four influencers who investigate their local mega-church pastor to readers in a book that promises to be a mix between Bad Summer People and The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. Koisk, who is based in Philadelphia, previously hosted The SSR Podcast and has had her work appear in Marie Claire, Real Simple, Business Insider, and Cosmopolitan.

Coming out on March 3, 2026, the book is now available for pre-order.

Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover, designed by Lila Selle, along with a Q&A with Alli Hoff Kosik about how this splashy, binge-ready cover was created.

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See the cover for She Made Herself a Monster by Anna Kovatcheva

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See the cover for She Made Herself a Monster by Anna Kovatcheva

Anna Kovatcheva’s debut novel, She Made Herself a Monster, will be published by Mariner Books on February 10, 2026. The novel is available for pre-order.

Kovatcheva was born in Bulgaria and received her MFA in fiction from New York University. She Made Herself a Monster was completed while she was in residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and her short fiction has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, and has been anthologized in Best American Nonrequired Reading.

Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover of She Made Herself a Monster, designed by Paul Miele-Herndon, alongside a Q&A with Kovatcheva about crafting her haunting debut and the eerie allure of nineteenth-century Bulgaria.

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See the cover for Make Your Way Home by Carrie Moore

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See the cover for Make Your Way Home by Carrie Moore

Carrie Moore‘s short stories have appeared in One Story, New England Review, The Sewanee Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Now, her debut short story collection Make Your Way Home is being published by Tin House on July 15, 2025! It is now available for pre-order.

The collection takes place across the American South and features Black men and women at different stages of age, happiness, and stability. From a pregnant young girl to a man grappling with a century-long curse, Moore invites readers into their lives with well-drawn portraits that don’t shy away from the complexity of their choices and emotions.

Debutiful is pleased to give a first look at the phenomenal cover of Make Your Way Home, which uses Higher Calling by Uzo Njoku as the centerpiece for the cover that was designed by Beth Steidle, Tin House’s Director of Design and Production. See the cover below and get a behind-the-scenes look at how it came to be.

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See the cover for Nini Berndt’s debut novel There Are Reasons For This

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See the cover for Nini Berndt’s debut novel There Are Reasons For This

Nini Berndt’s debut novel There Are Reasons For This follows Lucy as she arrives in Denver, searching for Helen, the woman her brother Mikey loved before his death. Moving in across from Helen, Lucy uncovers a city in decay, disturbing truths, and an unexpected obsession with Helen, who remains unaware of Lucy’s true identity. As their lives become entangled, Lucy realizes her reasons for coming to Denver run deeper than simply uncovering what happened to her brother. The novel explores love, desire, family, and the mysterious forces that bind them.

Berndt, who received her MFA from the University of Florida and now lives in Denver with her wife and son, is publishing her debut from Tin House on June 3, 2025. It is available for pre-order now.

Debutiful is ecstatic to give a first look at the striking cover of There Are Reasons For This, designed by Beth Steidle, Tin House’s Director of Design and Production. See the cover below and get a behind-the-scenes look at how it came to be.

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See the cover for Maureen Sun’s The Sisters K

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Seeing the cover for her debut novel The Sisters K was disorienting for Maureen Sun. At first, she didn’t understand what the image had to do with her novel, which is a reimagining of The Brothers Karamazov, but then realized it had everything to do with her book. Set to debut on June 11 via Unnamed Press, the book follows estranged sisters at their father’s deathbed.

The cover came from inspiration Sun had while her book was under submission when she went to an exhibit of Henry Moore’s work.

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See the cover for The Road to the Salt Sea by Samuel Kọ́láwọlé

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The Road to the Salt Sea is the forthcoming debut novel from Nigerian writer Samuel Kọ́láwọlé likened to the works of Omar El Akkad and Mohsin Hamid’s. Set to release on July 2 from Amistad Press, the novel follows a lowly hotel worker whose life collides with a sex work and a dangerous guest. Throughout Kọ́láwọlé explores the Nigerian class system and how fate and fortune are fickle things.

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See the cover for Your Presence is Mandatory by Sasha Vasilyuk

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Your Presence is Mandatory by Sasha Vasilyuk is a historical novel about a Ukrainian WWII veteran and a secret that could tear him and his family apart. Based on real events, Vasilyuk’s debut spans decades and two different totalitarian regimes while tenderly crafting a character-driven story.

Coming April 23 from Bloomsbury Publishing, we talked to the author about the subtle and gorgeous cover design. The author grew up reading books in the Soviet Union where covers had no design whatsoever. Vasilyuk didn’t want a barren cover but didn’t want something completely bare either. She ended up sending Bloomsbury the illustration that showed tanks rolling past apartment buildings that accompanied her New York Times op-ed about her family to show the foreboding mood she thought would work best as the cover.

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