#second novels

[bookriot]

Discovering a promising debut writer is always exciting, since there is so much in store to relish. Here is a selection of second novels from terrific up-and-coming writers that will be published in 2018 and that I am excited about.

https://bookriot.com/2018/03/05/anticipated-second-novels-of-2018/

[24australia-blog]

The Benefactor review: Sebastian Hampson's puzzling second novel

[bookriot]

Amazing debut novels are a thing of joy, and lucky us, it seems like there are more of them than ever these days. But what about the follow-ups? How many authors survived the dreaded sophomore slump? And how many famous novels were actually an author’s second?

I was curious about this, but when I Googled “second novels,” there were a lot of articles about people trying to write a second novel, but not many on great second novels themselves.

So here’s a list of fantastic second novels that I hope will give people lots of new books to check out. There are literally hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of second novels in existence, so I went with the first 100 that popped into my brain.

Some of these are an author’s most famous work, and some of them are an author’s lesser known work, but all are wonderful.

http://bookriot.com/2016/06/02/100-must-read-second-novels/

[theauthor-agent-blog]

I'm a guest on Strictly Writing Blog

I was invited by Gillian McDade (we're both from Northern Ireland) of the excellent Strictly Writing Blog to be a guest so I wrote a piece for it. It's about writing a second novel after all the hoop-la of getting published settles down. Here's the post.

[libraryjournal]

There is perhaps no more fraught phrase in the book business than “second novel.” I think everyone wishes that these books could be skipped entirely and all novelists could progress directly from first to third.

Author Chris Pavone, who made a big best-selling splash with his debut espionage thriller The Ex-Pats, now tackles the dreaded second novel. The Accident is no sophomore slump, but an engaging thriller about the workings of the publishing world, something Pavone knows quite well.