Okay, no wonder I’m tired and cranky. In just one week, our list of debut authors we know about has swelled from 40 to 173. And guess who is the keeper of the list? Rashenbo?
Well, I did volunteer, so no bellyaching allowed on my end. If you know of a debut author who qualifies under our rules, keep those names rolling in. And if you catch any mistakes, please let me know! There’s no malice intended, just an exhausted mom-writer-wife with a potentially torn knee cartilege (again).
I thought I’d post the list for you here, even though it’s fun to watch the hits on my main website. Guess I’ll watch ’em in both places.
- Alan Fox — The Seeker in Forever
- Albyn Leah Hall — The Rhythm of the Road
- Alex Espinoza — Still Water Saints
- Alexandra Sokoloff — The Harrowing
- Ali Liebegott — The IHOP Papers
- Alice Greenway — White Ghost Girls
- Aliya Whiteley — Three Things About Me
- Amir Gutfreund — Our Holocaust
- Amy Bryant — Polly
- Ana Baca — Mama Fela’s Girls
- Andrew Britton — The American
- Antoinette May — Pilate’s Wife
- Antonia Arslan — Skylark Farm
- Benito Cordova — Big Dreams and Dark Secrets in Chimaya
- Betsey Osborne — The Natural History of Uncas Metcalfe
- Brian Martin — North
- Brian Shuster. The Minerva Virus
- C-Murder — Death Around the Corner
- CA Belmond — A Rather Lovely Inheritance
- Carolyn Turgeon — Rain Village
- Cate Sweeney — Selfish Jean
- Catherine Murdock – Dairy Queen
- Cheryl Strayed — Torch
- Christine Conrad — Mademoiselle Benoir
- Cindy Woodsmall — When the Heart Cries
- Clifford Chase — Winkie
- Colleen Gleason — The Rest Falls Away
- Cornelia Read — A Field of Darkness
- Conor Corderoy — Dark Rain
- Da Chen — Brothers
- Daniel Judson – The Darkest Place
- David Lynn Golemon — Event
- Debra Dean – The Madonnas of Leningrad
- Debra Ginsberg — Blind Submisssion
- Derek Armstrong — The Game
- Diane Setterfield — The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
- Donna Westover Gallup — White as Snow
- Drew Bowling — The Tower of Shadows
- Edward Charles — In the Shadow of Lady Jane
- Ellis Avery — The Teahouse Fire
- Faiza Guene — Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow
- Farrell O’Gorman — Awaiting Orders
- Frances Washburn — Elsie’s Business
- George Robert Minkoff — The Weight of Smoke
- Gillian Flynn — Sharp Objects: A Novel
- Gina Buonaguro and Janice Kirk — The Sidewalk Artist
- Gordon Dahlquist – The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
- Heather Hayashi — To Save the World
- Heidi Pitlor — The Birthdays
- Henry Chang — Chinatown Beat
- Hisham Matar — In the Country of Men
- Heidi Pitlor — The Birthdays: A Novel
- Hisham Matar — In the Country of Men
- Hugh Paxton — Homunculus
- Jackie Kessler — Hell’s Belles
- James Canon — Takes from the Town of Widows and Chronicles from the Land of Men
- James Janko — Buffalo Boy and Geronimo
- Jana DeLeon — Rumble on the Bayou
- Jane May — Doggy Style
- Jason Webb — The Ghost of Che Guevara
- Jed Rubenfeld – The Interpretation of Murder
- Jenn Reese — Jade Tiger
- Jennah Sharpe — Along the Hibiscus Path
- Jennifer Gilmore — Golden Country: A Novel
- Jerome Tell — The Election
- Jill Conner Browne (with Karin Gillespie) — The Sweet Potato Queen’s First Big Ass Novel
- Jonathan Drapes — Never Admit to Beige
- Joshua Cohen — Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto
- Joshua Palmatier — The Skewed Throne
- Joshua Spanogle – Isolation Ward
- Judith Lindbergh — The Thrall’s Tale
- Judith Marks-White — Seducing Harry
- Julie Carobini — Chocolate Beach
- Kat Richardson — Greywalker
- Kathleen Jacobs — The Friday Knitting Club
- Katherine Min — Secondhand World
- KE Silva — A Simple Distance
- Kelly Kerney — Born Again
- Keith Donohue — The Stolen Child
- Kevin Shay — The End as I Know it
- Kirsten Sawyer — Not Quite a Bride
- Laura Dave — London is the Best City in America
- Laura Fitzgerlad — A Veil of Roses
- Laura Ruby — I’m not Julia Roberts
- Lauren Fox — Still Life With Husband
- Lauren Lipton — It’s About Your Husband
- Lauren Marks-White — Seducing Harry
- Layne Maheu — Song of the Crow
- Lee Merrill Bryd — Riley’s Fire
- Liam Jackson — Offspring
- Lila Shaara — Every Secret Thing
- Lisa Fugard — Skinner’s Drift
- Lisa Pearl Rosenbaum — A Day of Small Beginnings
- Lisa Unger — Beautiful Lifes
- Lori Lacefield — The Seventh Survivor
- Lu Vickers — Breathing Underwater
- Lucy McCarraher — Blood & Water
- Marcus Sakey — The Blade Itself
- Margo Candela — Underneath it All
- Marie Arana — Cellophane
- Marisa de los Santos — Love Walked In
- Marisha Pessl — Special Topics in Calamity Physics
- Mark Binelli — Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die!
- Mary E. Neighbour — Speak Right on: Dred Scott a Novel
- Matthew Scott Hansen — The Shadow killer
- Max Brooks — World War Z
- Meg Mullins — The Rug Merchant
- Melissa Clark — Swimming Upstream Slowly
- Mia King — Good Things
- Michael A. Fitzgerald — Radiant Days
- Michael Graham — The Snow Angel
- Michael Stephen — The Manuscript
- Michael Thomas — Man Gone Down
- Michelle Tea — Rose of no Man’s Land
- MWF Curran — The Secret War
- Naomi Alderman — Disobedience
- Natalie Danford — Inheritance
- Nora Gallagher — Changing Light
- N.S. Koenings — The Blue Taxi
- Olga Grushin — The Dream Life of Sukhanov
- Pam Jenoff — The Kommandant’s Girl
- Pamela Carter Joern — The Floor of the Sky
- Patrick F. McManus — The Blight Way
- Patrick Hyde — The Only Pure Thing
- Paul Batista — Death’s Witness
- Paul Rusesabagina – An Ordinary Man
- Paul Wolfe — Choices
- Peter Behrens — The Law of Dreams
- Peter Bourne — The Deserter
- Peter C. Brown — The Fugitive Wife
- Peter Hobbs — The Short Day of dying
- Racy Li — Ninja
- Rae Meadows — Calling Me Out
- Raymond Khoury — The Last Templar
- Rebecca Drake — Don’t Be Afraid
- RG Willems — Targets of Affection
- Robert Dugoni – The Jury Master
- Robert Fate — Baby Shark
- Robert Gregory Browne — Kiss Her Goodbye
- Robert Gussin — Trash Talk
- Roger Morris — Taking Comfort
- Roger Alan Skipper — Tear Down the Mountain
- Roseanne Keller — A Summer All Her Own
- Sam Barone — Dawn of Empire
- Sam Savage — Firmin
- Samantha Grosser — Another Time and Place
- San Culberson — The Nick of Time
- Sandi Ault — Wild Indigo
- Sara Gruen – Water for Elephants
- Sean Chercover — Big City Bad Blood
- Sela Carsen — Not Quite Dead (http://www.Selacarson.com)
- Sela Carsen — The Virgin Courtesan
- Shane Gericke — Blown Away
- Stephen J. Spignesi – Dialogues
- Steven Hockensmith — Holmes on the Range
- Steve Voake – The Dreamwalker’s Child
- Sunny — Mona Lisa Awakening
- Suroopa Mukherjee — Across the Mystic Shore
- Suzanne Adair — Paper Woman (http://www.suzanneadair.com)
- Tasha Alexander — And Only to Deceive
- Tawny Taylor — Sex and the Single Ghost
- Thomas Mullen — The Last Town on Earth: A Novel
- Thomma Lyn — Thy Eternal Summer
- Tinling Choong — FireWife
- Toby Devens — My favorite midlife crisis (yet)
- Tom McCarthy — Remainder
- Tony D’Souza — Whiteman
- Troy Cook — 47 Rules of Highly Effective Bank Robbers
- Wendy Wasserstein — Elements of Style
- Will Beall — L.A. Rex
- William Kittredge — The Willow Field
- Yael Goldstein — Overture
- Yvette Christianse — Unconfessed
Prizes:
- 2 $20 gift certificates from Borders
- A copy of RG Willems’ debut, Targets of Affection
- 5 free points from BookMooch.com
- A copy of Matt Curran’s debut, The Secret War
- An autographed copy of Lila Shaara’s debut, Every Secret Thing
- A copy of Suzanne Adair’s debut, Paper Woman
- A copy of Racy Li’s debut e-book, Ninja
- A copy of Sela Carsen’s debut e-book, Not Quite Dead
- A copy of Sela Carsen’s follow-up short, The Virgin Courtesan
- A copy of Michael FitzGerald’s debut, Radiant Days
And a hello to all of you dropping in from the Romance Divas bulletin board! I hope everyone visiting for this contest will stay awhile, poke around, and become as enchanted with my world of Riverview, USA, and my fictional band, ShapeShifter.
andrew
January 26, 2007 10:47 pm
173! I suppose that counts as a success!! Do you know how many people are partcipating in the contest?
Susan Helene Gottfried
January 26, 2007 11:12 pm
Not a clue. Hopefully lots and lots. Like… one for every author listed, minimum.
Elisabeth Jason
January 27, 2007 4:49 pm
This is a wonderful idea…:-) Unfortunately, I’m technologically impaired and couldn’t find a link to send my web addy and book title to…lol. I humbly ask to please be added to your author list and hope it’s all right to put the info here…:-)br /br /Elisabeth Jasonbr /www.freewebs.com/elisabethjasonbr /br /Soul Sacrifice – released by Aspen Mountain Press, November 2006
Susan Helene Gottfried
January 27, 2007 5:44 pm
Absolutely, Elisabeth! I’ve got it down on my master list for the next update. Thanks for dropping by and congratulations on the publication!
Lindsey (Ls!)
January 27, 2007 8:23 pm
173?! Wow! This is getting pretty big!br /br /Hope the knee gets better!
Susan Helene Gottfried
January 27, 2007 9:08 pm
The contest is getting huge. The knee is getting smaller (swelling going down).br /br /Both are VERY good things. 😀
Tia
January 27, 2007 9:25 pm
Love this idea! I have not read a new debut in a while, so this is my excuse.
Lauren
January 28, 2007 12:09 am
Awesome awesome prizes. br /I’m so mad I can’t participate in this but I hope you get a ton of people!! I should take a copy of that list and try to read some of these debuting authors!
Southern Writer
January 28, 2007 12:58 am
SHG, the link you left on my blog is an Error 404. Come fix it, ‘kay? Do you want to copy and redo the whole thing, and I’ll delete the current one, or just add a new link? I’ll know by looking at whatever you post.
Susan Helene Gottfried
January 28, 2007 9:33 am
*sigh*br /br /I am link retarded, I swear it (and not PC, either, but TFB on that one). I’ll see what I can do, Lesia.br /br /And yes, Lauren, you SHOULD copy the list and see how many of these babies you can get your hands on. But… since I’m getting new names daily, you might want to wait until the end of the contest for the final list. I suspect it’ll be huge by that time. At least, I hope it will be — and that participation in the contest will be commensurate.br /br /(wow. I used retarded and commensurate in the same comment. What does that say about me?)
littlebirdblue
January 28, 2007 11:59 am
Susan,br /br /I’ve got your Debut a Debut list of authors up in my sidebar. I’ll keep it fresh in people’s minds, and I’ll bully people into participating. br /br /Bully… yes, I said it; I’m not ashamed.
Susan Helene Gottfried
January 28, 2007 12:01 pm
Blue, I think we might become very good friends…br /br /Make sure you update the list of authors from my website, not the blog. The website gets updated nightly; the blog, only when I feel like it. (Hey, I’ve got to keep my own groupies happy, as well as make new ones!)br /br /I appreciate the support!
littlebirdblue
January 28, 2007 12:02 pm
Oh, and thanks to Southern Writer again for her blog-link to West of Mars.br /br /(…And book-love spreads, like ripples on the surface an inky pond.)
karen!
January 28, 2007 12:33 pm
I love seeing how this list is growing. I’m just wondering how many of these bookies I’ll be able to sneak into my reading queue for the contest 😉
Cheryl Strayed
January 28, 2007 4:39 pm
Thanks so much for including my novel on your list! Only one thing…the title is TORCH, not TORCHED. Can you fix that please? It’s a common mistake people make and I always laugh because torched is precisely how I felt after finally finishing the dang thing! I love that you’re doing this. Thanks for supporting all us debut novelists–and my best to you on your book as well. I’m happy to send signed copies of Torch to anyone who goes on Bookmooch.com to mooch one from me (bookmooch is a very cool book exchange site that I recently discovered). Happy reading!
Susan Helene Gottfried
January 28, 2007 4:48 pm
Fixed it, Cheryl; it’ll be on tonight’s update, as well as your offer to send an autographed mooched copy. I might be headed there now, in fact… *grin*
MarciNYC
January 28, 2007 4:55 pm
#160 on your list (Tasha Alexander’s And Only to Deceive) was one of my fa favourite reads last year! br /br /Here I am trying to ‘declutter’ and you’ve given me a list of books to check out. *sigh* They’re like rabbits, I tell you!
Susan Helene Gottfried
January 28, 2007 6:49 pm
Yes, they ARE like rabbits.br /br /But at least you have ONE book to write a review for and enter the contest with!
Nikki
January 28, 2007 7:40 pm
I would love to be included. My debut novel came out March 2006 and the second came out in August 2006. Happy to say the sequel to my second is coming out in March. My website is http://www.nikkileigh.com and my pen name is Nikki Leigh.br /br /Also, I’m the owner of the Readers Station and would be happy to include a promo for your contest on our contest page. Our latest newsletter is coming out in a few days and we are promoting a contest we’re having so the contest page should get a lot of hits. If you want to send me a short blurb about the contest and the link I’ll include you. The email addy is nikki-leigh@excite.com. I’m always looking for new contests to list of the Readers Station site and my site — so feel free to send any 🙂 br /br /Nikki Leigh
karen!
January 29, 2007 11:46 am
Just remembered another…br /Londonstani by Gautam Malkani br /(UK edition May 2006, American edition June 2006)
Elisabeth Jason
January 29, 2007 12:11 pm
Thank you so much, Susan..:-)
Janelle Martin
January 31, 2007 3:34 pm
Hey Susan, I’ve reviewed a number of the books on your list already – here are some links (in case your readers are interested):br /br /Albyn Leah Hall — a href=”http://antheras.blogspot.com/2006/12/book-review-rhythm-of-road-by-albyn.html”The Rhythm of the Road/abr /br /Diane Setterfield — a href=”http://antheras.blogspot.com/2006/12/book-review-thirteenth-tale-by-diane.html”The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel/abr /br /Jed Rubenfeld – a href=”http://antheras.blogspot.com/2006/11/book-review-interpretation-of-murder.html”The Interpretation of Murder/abr /br /Keith Donohue — a href=”http://antheras.blogspot.com/2006/06/book-review-stolen-child-by-keith.html”The Stolen Child/abr /br /Melissa Clark — a href=”http://antheras.blogspot.com/2006/10/book-review-swimming-upstream-slowly.html”Swimming Upstream Slowly/abr /br /Sam Savage — a href=”http://www.readysteadybook.com/BookReview.aspx?isbn=1566891817″Firmin/abr /br /Tom McCarthy — a href=”http://antheras.blogspot.com/2006/11/book-review-remainder-by-tom-mccarthy.html”Remainder/abr /br /Now I just have to figure out what I’m going to read for the contest!
Susan Helene Gottfried
January 31, 2007 3:47 pm
Your review of The Stolen Child is what got me interested in Donohoe and his book, remember? That’s the only one I’ve read.br /br /Thanks for the links, babe! I hope they lead lots of my readers your way — Janelle writes AMAZING reviews — and that they help the authors find readers. br /br /That’s what the contest is all about, after all. Exposing us all to new authors.
Janelle Martin
January 31, 2007 3:54 pm
Oh, I forgot to add that Some Like it Haute by Julie K.L. Dam (Hardcover – Feb 22, 2006) should be on your list of debut books.br /br /I reviewed it a href=”http://antheras.blogspot.com/2006/02/book-review-some-like-it-haute-by.html”here/a.br /br /a href=”http://www.readysteadybook.com/BookReview.aspx?isbn=0002006057″After Helen/a by Paul Cavanagh is another to add to your list. (Paperback – Jan 26 2006)
Susan Helene Gottfried
January 31, 2007 4:02 pm
Thanks, J. They’ll be on the next update on my website and the next time Erica updates over at a href=”writingaspirations.blogspot.com” Writing Aspirations/a.br /br /I’ll do another blog update of everything over the weekend, I hope.br /br /Oh, and After Helen isn’t available at either Powells or Amazon, just in case anyone’s looking.
Sparky Duck
February 15, 2007 7:11 pm
my god what a list!
Susan Helene Gottfried
February 15, 2007 7:20 pm
Yeah, and it got even bigger over at my website, too!BR/BR/btw, we’re already collecting names for the 2008 Debut a Debut contest!