Indies Introduce Interview

Finn Murphy is the author of the Summer/Fall 2017 Indies Introduce debut The Long Haul, which is “completely engrossing and worth the read,” says Jason Kennedy of Boswell Book Company.

Lisa Ko is the author of the Indies Introduce adult pick The Leavers, which Becky Milner of Vintage Books called “a bravura debut.”

Melissa Savage is the author of the Winter/Spring 2017 Indies Introduce middle grade debut Lemons, “a wonderful story about love, loss, and healing,” said Katherine Megna-Weber of Books Inc.

Double Dutch, the Winter/Spring 2017 Indies Introduce debut from Laura Trunkey, “is full of magical short stories that remind me of why I love this genre,” said Susan Hans O’Connor of Penguin Bookshop.

Amy Liptrot is the author of the Winter/Spring 2017 Indies Introduce debut The Outrun, a “stunningly written journal of recovery,” said Darwin Ellis of Books on the Common.

Andrew Forsthoefel is the author of the Winter/Spring 2017 Indies Introduce pick Walking to Listen: 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time.

Ruth Lauren is the author of Prisoner of Ice and Snow, a Winter/Spring 2017 Indies Introduce debut for middle-grade readers, set in a fantasy world inspired by Russia.

Winter/Spring 2017 Indies Introduce debut author Deepak Unnikrishnan is the “immensely talented new voice” behind Temporary People, said Hilary Gustafson of Literati Bookstore.

Rebecca Donnelly is the author of the Indies Introduce middle-grade debut How to Stage a Catastrophe, “a story near and dear to my heart,” said Emily Hall of Main Street Books.

“Thi Bui’s graphic memoir is outstanding,” said Penguin Bookshop’s Susan Hans O’Connor about The Best We Could Do, a Winter/Spring 2017 Indies Introduce debut .

Whitney Gardner, author of the Indies Introduce young adult debut You’re Welcome, Universe, “has managed to make a very specific and angst-filled story universally appealing and lovable,” said Molly Olivo of Barstons Child’s Play.

Peternelle van Arsdale is the author of The Beast Is an Animal, an Indies Introduce debut novel for young adults and a Spring Kids’ Indie Next List pick.

Dan Egan is the author of The Death and Life of the Great Lakes, “an excellent account of the effects humankind has upon nature,” said Pete Mock of McIntyre’s Books.

Elvis Babbitt, the main character in Annie Hartnett’s Rabbit Cake, is “funny, smart, surprising, and heartbreaking,” said Susan Hans O’Connor of Penguin Bookshop.

Here, bookseller Susan Tunis of BookShop West Portal talks with Emily Fridlund, author of the Winter/Spring 2017 Indies Introduce debut novel History of Wolves.