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writing

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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Interviews

A Life of Books with Mateo Askaripour, author of Black Buck

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A Life of Books with Mateo Askaripour, author of Black Buck

In Black Buck, Mateo Askaripour uses a gregarious Black salesman in an all white company to satirically take down corporate America. Through sharp-witted humor and a lot of heart, Askaripour sheds light on the microaggressions and blatant racism Black men and women go through on a daily basis.

The book has been praised by everyone from Publishers Weekly to The Today Show and was one of Debutiful‘s best debuts to read this month.

Below, Mateo Askaripour answered A Life of Books, Debutiful‘s ongoing questionnaire to better get to know writers and what inspires them.

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10 debut books you should read this January

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10 debut books you should read this January

Let’s all just say it: good riddance to 2020! While the literature produced last year was unbelievably breathtaking and groundbreaking, the year itself was… a let down. As we enter 2021, let’s all remember to take care of one another and continue to discover debut authors together.

January’s debuts gives readers everything they could possibly want. There’s a trans-melodrama, gut-wrenching memoirs, a psychological thriller, and stories that take us across the globe.

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Interviews

Inside Julie Langsdorf’s long journey to publishing ‘White Elephant’

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Inside Julie Langsdorf’s long journey to publishing ‘White Elephant’

Julie Langsdorf’s social satire White Elephant might be about a straight-and-arrow, quaint neighborhood, but the road she took to publishing it sprawled across decades and iterations. In the dark comedy, a quiet Washington, D.C. suburb is disrupted when a mammoth white house – the titular white elephant – begins construction. The new home pushes the suburbanites out of their boring slumber and into action.

The story follows an intricate cast of characters who were first conceived in the mid-aughts and had to be updated for the modern world. Though this seems like it fits perfectly well in the Trumpian world, Langsdorf will quickly admit that she didn’t need to change much of the political lens from when she first conceived it to its publication.

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