The Qwillery

The Qwillery's Debut Author Challenge is entering its second year. This year many of the 2012 Debut Authors will be writing a guest post approximately 2 months ahead of his or her debut novel's publication. So you will be getting to know some of these Debut Authors starting next month. Near the debut's publication date, each of the 2012 Debut Authors will be interviewed. Debut Authors' books will be listed in a post on the first of each month. Please check each month's list to let me know if I've missed any debut authors. You can also let everyone participating know which book you will be reading in the comments to the post.

The object of the 2012 Debut Author Challenge is for participants to read at least 12 debut novels during 2012 - one from each month of the year though you may read them anytime between January 1, 2012 and December 31, 2012.

The genres and subgenres covered by the challenge are Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Historical Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Paranormal Mystery, Horror, Science Fiction, SciFi Romance, Steampunk, Steampunk Mystery, Steampunk Romance, Supernatural Noir and all their permutations. The debuts are not YA/MG.

This year we will also attempt some group reads of debut novels and invite the author(s) back for some Q&A.

Sign up in the comments below if you'd like to participate.


2012 Debut Author Visits as of October 9, 2011:

The following Debut Authors will be visiting The Qwillery during 2011/2012. Please note that they are listed in alphabetical order, not guest post, interview or release date order. This list will be continually updated. You can see the most up-to-date list at the 2012 DAC page.

AUTHOR	TITLE (release month)	SERIES Guest Post Date Interview Date
Cassie Alexander	Nightshifted (June)	Nightshifted
Stephen Blackmoore	City of the Lost (Jan)	[1st in a series]
Michael Boccacino	Charlotte Markham (July)
Kira Brady	Hearts of Darkness (Aug)	Deadglass Trilogy
Amanda Carlson	Full Blooded (Sep)	Jessica McClain
Adam Christopher	Empire State (Jan)
Deborah Coates	Wide Open (March)
Myke Cole	Control Point (Jan)	Shadow Ops
Rachel Graves	Waking Up Dead (May)
Kylie Griffin	Vengeance Born (Feb)	The Light Blade
Chris F. Holm	Dead Harvest (March)	Collector
Eowyn Ivey	The Snow Child (Feb)
Suzanne Johnson	Royal Street (April)	Sentinels of New Orleans
Jay Kristoff	Stormdancer (Fall)	The Lotus War
Shawntelle Madison	Coveted (May)	Coveted
E.S. Moore	To Walk the Night (Jan)
Jillian Stone	The Seduction of Phaeton Black (April)	Phaeton Black
Joan Swan	Fever (Spring)	Phoenix Rising
James R. Tuck	Blood and Bullets (Feb)	Deacon Chalk Occult Bounty Hunter
Chuck Wendig	Blackbirds (May)	Miriam Black

You can keep up to date with 2012 Debut Author Challenge information at the 2012 DAC page.

Welcome to the very first 2012 Debut Author Challenge Update.

I couldn't be more pleased to announce that Adam Christopher is taking part in the Challenge. His debut novel, Empire State, has a wonderful cover that I absolutely love. I want a poster of it so I can hang it in my office. I really like it!

This is the US cover and is by William Staehle. There will be a different cover for the UK, yet to be revealed.

It was the last great science hero fight, but the energy blast ripped a hole in reality, and birthed the Empire State - a young, twisted parallel prohibition-era New York.

When the rift starts to close, both worlds are threatened, and both must fight for the right to exist.

File Under: Science Fiction [ Pocket Universe | Heroes or Villains | Speak Easy | Loyalties Divided ]

Empire State is available for preorder at Amazon and Barnes & Noble and probably lots of other places! It will be available in early 2012 from Angry Robot Books.