Debut Writers + cheese + obituaries (bonus Miss Piggy)

May I recommend

reading debut writers.

Now, you might be thinking this is awfully self-serving, Amy, as I happen to know for a fact that you yourself are a debut author. Well, you’ve caught me. I do want you to read my book, BUT I also want you to read other books by authors just like me who are starting out.

Until this year I didn’t particularly pay attention to debut writers and essentially I found books through the normal ways - my friends mentioned something they loved, the library told me “if you like this, you might like that,” a favourite author released something new, Oprah.

This year, however, I got the amazing, life changing, life affirming, incredible news that several of my own books were going to be published. I was thrilled, delighted, flummoxed and terrified. I don’t have an agent, which is generally the norm for published authors. Agents help sell your book to the publisher. The good ones (so I’ve been told) help you figure out how to promote and sell that book and t…