Indies Introduce Interview

Margot Farris of pages: a bookstore said she “couldn’t help but root for every single character” in Margaret Wilkerson Sexton’s A Kind of Freedom.

In Sidetracked, author Diana Harmon Asher “gives us a narrator with a unique voice,” said Dave Shallenberger of Little Shop of Stories.

Courtney Flynn of Trident Booksellers & Café called Danya Kukafka’s Girl in Snow “a whodunit with the added bonus of rich, wonderful characters and good writing.”

F.C. Yee is the author of the young adult debut The Epic Crush of Genie Lo, which will “fill that Buffy- or Sailor Moon-shaped hole in your life,” said Allison Senecal of Old Firehouse Books.

Augustus Rose is the author of Summer/Fall Indies Introduce debut The Readymade Thief, which follows 17-year-old Lee on what Jason Kennedy of Boswell Book Company calls “a brilliant journey.”

Sarah Schmidt is the author of the Summer/Fall 2017 Indies Introduce adult title See What I Have Done, which Carolyn Hutton of Mrs. Dalloway’s Literary & Garden Arts calls a “thriller of a debut.”

Booksellers have named Bianca Marais’ debut novel set in apartheid-era South Africa, Hum If You Don’t Know the Words, a Summer/Fall 2017 Indies Introduce debut and a July Indie Next List pick.

In the Summer/Fall Indies Introduce debut The Graybar Hotel, author Curtis Dawkins’ stories are “raw, eloquent, and captivating,” says Courtney Flynn of Trident Booksellers & Café.

Estep Nagy is the author of the Indies Introduce adult debut We Shall Not All Sleep, a “perfectly constructed novel,” says Sarah Goddin of Quail Ridge Books.

S.K. Ali is the author of Saints and Misfits, a Summer/Fall 2017 Indies Introduce debut for young adults starring a contemporary Muslim teenager.

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.