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Fall 2024 Children’s Flying Starts: Jill Tew
"How far is too far?” It’s a question many are asking themselves as technology continues its rapid expansion, and it’s the question at the core of Jill Tew’s YA science fiction debut, ‘The Dividing Sky.’
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Fall 2024 Children’s Flying Starts: Cai Tse
Author Cai Tse has found a way to combine her two biggest loves—Chinese lion dancing and art—into a career, which now includes competing globally on a lion dancing team and publishing her debut graphic novel, ‘Lion Dancers.’
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Fall 2024 Children’s Flying Starts: Jeff Drew
With the publication of his debut picture book, ‘Alfie Explores A to Z: A Seek-and-Find Adventure,’ author-illustrator Jeff Drew has partnered career success with personal passion.
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Fall 2024 Children’s Flying Starts: Tigest Girma
Tigest Girma is good at keeping secrets. After all, it’s how the author of ‘Immortal Dark’ started her writing career, quietly typing dystopian stories influenced by Suzanne Collins’s ‘The Hunger Games’ and Veronica Roth’s ‘Divergent’ on Wattpad during her teenage years.
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Fall 2024 Flying Starts
We spotlight the authors of six of the season’s most promising children’s book debuts.
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Two Can Live as Richly as One: PW Talks with Ramit Sethi
Finance guru Sethi addresses how people sharing both a bed and a bank account can reach their financial goals together in ‘Money for Couples.’
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Work Is Fundamentally Broken: PW Talks with Jennifer Moss
In ‘Why Are We Here?,’ workplace consultant Moss addresses the meaning of purpose in the new world of work.
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The Spy Who Loved Me: PW Talks with Lindsay Lovise
A woman falls for the man she is tasked with investigating in Lovise’s second Secret Society of Governess Spies novel, 'Never Gamble Your Heart' (Forever, Feb.).
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‘I Hoped This Book Would Be Less Relevant’: PW Talks with Katherine Stewart
In 'Money, Lies, and God' (Bloomsbury, Feb.), journalist Katherine Stewart reports on America’s growing antidemocratic movement.
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Q & A with Shannon Messenger
Shannon Messenger takes a detour in 'Unraveled', book 9.5 in her bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities middle grade series. The first book to be narrated from an entirely new POV and the second .5 installment following 'Unlocked' (book 8.5), 'Unraveled' centers on elven teenager Keefe Sencen after he split off from Sophie Foster in 'Stellarlune'.
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Q & A with Deborah Farmer Kris
Deborah Farmer Kris spoke with us about how she grew into her roles as a parent educator and writer, and where she goes when she’s in need of parenting advice of her own.
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Climate Change Hits Close to Home: PW Talks with Mike Tidwell
In 'The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue' (St. Martin’s, Mar.), the founder of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network heeds the warning signs in his own backyard.
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The Quiet Places: PW Talks with Pico Iyer
In 'Aflame' (Riverhead, Jan.), the essayist and travel writer draws from his visits to a Catholic hermitage to explore the value of silence in an increasingly noisy world.
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A Murder in Massachusetts: PW Talks with Kate Winkler Dawson
In 'The Sinners All Bow' (Putnam, Jan.), the historian and podcaster examines the 1832 killing that inspired 'The Scarlet Letter' and America’s first true crime book.
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Just Follow the Thread: PW Talks with Ted Kooser
The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and former U.S. poet laureate discusses his new book, his writing process for both poetry and picture books, and how he keeps so busy well into his 80s.
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Q & A with Marisha Pessl
Adult author Marisha Pessl follows her YA debut 'Neverworld Wake' with suspense thriller 'Darkly.'
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Beyond the Book: Jane Yang's 'The Lotus Shoes'
Former pharmacist and debut author Jane Yang’s new sweeping historical novel, 'The Lotus Shoes' (Park Row Books, Jan. 2025), is being compared to such classics as 'Memoirs of a Geisha' and 'Pachinko.' PW talked with the author about how her own family history impacted the novel's portrayal of the relationship between a young woman and her maidservant in 19th-century China. (Sponsored)
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Where Does AI Go from Here?: PW Talks with Christopher Summerfield
In 'These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means' (Viking, Mar.), neuroscientist Christopher Summerfield explores how large language models work.
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This Comics Creator Is Still Optimistic About N.Y.C.: PW Talks with Kay Sohini
Kay Sohini depicts her experiences emigrating from India to New York in her graphic memoir debut, 'This Beautiful, Ridiculous City' (Ten Speed Graphic, Jan.).
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PW Close-Up: Scott Turow Brings Back Rusty Sabich for One Last Case
With 'Presumed Guilty,' the final book in his Presumed Innocent trilogy, publishing in January 2025, PW talked with Scott Turow about his enduring fascination with the fictional world of Kindle County and how he feels about being known as the father of the modern legal thriller. (Sponsored)
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