The following is from Catherine Airey‘s Confessions. Airey grew up in England in a family of mixed Irish and English descent. She studied English at Cambridge and now lives in County Cork. The debut is a spellbinding novel that follows three generations of women from New York to rural Ireland and back again. It is now available for purchase in bookstores everywhere.
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Manuel Betancourt‘s debut book, The Male Gazed, somehow didn’t cross my path until well after it came out. The book, which takes a critical eye toward pop culture and queer desire, originally came out in 2023 and is now available in paperback. After reading and discovering his book, I invited him to the First Taste Reading Series to read and discuss his book.
His second book, Hello Stranger: Musings on Modern Intimacies, is out now. Publishers’ Weekly calls it “steamy and cerebral” while Kirkus says Betancourt is a “witty, intuitive observer of human behavior.” I 100% agree with both of those statements. While Debutiful is dedicated to debut books, but is also focusing on emerging and early career writers because when someone is a damn good writer, we don’t care when you discover them, as long as you do discover them.
Below the author answered our My Reading Life questionnaire, for you to learn about the books he was obsessed with, what helped him through puberty, and what he’s reading next.
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Poets & Writers has announced the 2025 fiction cohort for Get the Word Out, a publicity incubator for early career writers. The program gives selected writers an opportunity to work with an experienced book publicist who will guide them in leveraging the opportunity presented by their first or second major book publication.
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We are proud to feature an excerpt from Swift River by Essie Chambers.
In her debut novel, Chambers introduces readers to Diamond Newberry who is a teenager in 1987 learning how to drive, how to love her body, and how to be the only Black girl in an all-white community. Diamond’s coming-of-age story is equally heartbreaking as it is uplifting. Chambers breathes live into intimate scenes with characters that will warm your heart.
We asked the author to set up the excerpt with a short Q&A below, followed by an excerpt from the book’s first chapter.
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