Last month, I had the absolute pleasure to talk to Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty about VOX and dystopian fiction on BBC Breakfast. And–get this–they were kind enough to send me the clip! Huge thanks to the BBC and my amazing UK publicist, Lily Capewell.
I confess I can’t stop looking at these lovelies! Tore apart this very exciting red parcel that arrived from @HQstories this morning. Cannot wait to get started, everyone has been telling me this book is astounding #100words @LilyCapewell pic.twitter.com/LBPvOkE1BG — Stevie Finegan (@StevieFinegan) June 8, 2018
Thanks to the amazingly talented artists at HQ HarperCollinsUK, VOX has a whole new look. Really delighted to share this gorgeous cover with you! As usual, clicking over on the image will get you somewhere else.
I’ve a new appreciation for reporters and interviewers, having had lovely chats with a few of them recently. Scary? Yes, a little. But when they do it right and arrange your words on the page, that fear really does go away. For some insight into what I was thinking when Read more…
I was over the moon when one of my publishers, HQ HarperCollinsUK, asked me to write an article on the linguistic elements in VOX, specifically, on the speculative (and very frightening) question of what might happen in future generations. Each time I’m asked about the genesis of the novel, I Read more…
Yes, it’s true, I wrote a book about females being limited to 100 words per day (or else!). But here’s what I really think, and what frightens me far more than the prospect of having my words counted by a bracelet: What if we stopped children from acquiring language? What Read more…
This morning I met with Grazia Prota, the manager of one of Naples’ largest Feltrinelli branches– basically THE bookstore chain here on the boot. Very exciting to share the book news with her, and I even got compliments on my Italian. While there, I noticed a copy of Via col Vento Read more…
Here they are, friends across the pond! (Although, as I write this, I’m also across the pond, just ever so slightly south of you.) If you’re a book blogger, reviewer, or some other flavor of publishing person, get thyself over to Twitter and ask @HQstories editor Charlotte Mursall for your Read more…