Vanity Fair just announced thirteen books for their Summer Reading: This Season’s Ultimate Fiction List, and I couldn’t be more pleased and surprised to see VOX mentioned! The other super-cool titles are: Red, White, Blue by Lea Carpenter Kudos by Rachel Cusk The Shades by Evgenia Citkowitz The President is Read more…
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…
Over the moon to see that Lee Child, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Jack Reacher series, not only read my novel, but offered this fantastic quote. I’d write more, but I’m heading to a comfy chair to curl up with one of Child’s books right now.
I always hear about these things after everyone else, sort of like opening your Christmas prezzies on Boxing Day. No matter — a present is a present is a present. And this one from the UK-based sci-fi publication Starburst Magazine made my day. As usual, clicking on the pretty image 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…
Some things make me as speechless as my main character. Like this shoutout from EW listing VOX as one of “10 Prescient New Feminist Dystopias to Read After The Handmaid’s Tale.” Now, I’m never going to put myself in Margaret Atwood’s league — perhaps in my next life I’ll start writing 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…
Are on the same list. It’s nice, because usually when I think of George Orwell and me showing up in the same breath, I imagine something along the lines of “Wouldn’t it be nice if I could write a book as good as one of Orwell’s?” Whether I’ve come even Read more…
Exciting news in Brazil’s PublishNews yesterday! “Women and more women in publishing houses.” We’re all very happy to see VOX mentioned: Vox, de Christina Dalcher, se passa numa América onde foi decretado que as mulheres não podem falar mais do que 100 palavras por dia. Se antes uma pessoa normal usava Read more…