Praise for Melanie Thorne’s debut novel Hand Me Down
“Like Janet Finch’s bestseller White Oleander…. Difficult to read, but impossible to put down.” —Bookpage “Prose that vibrates with intelligence and passion,” —Kirkus, starred review “A sad, compelling...
View ArticleThe Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
“Captivating… The Language of Flowers deftly weaves the sweetness of newfound love with the heartache of past mistakes.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune “A deftly powerful story of finding your way home,...
View ArticleThe Rebel Wife by Taylor M. Polites
“This is a wonderful first novel—passionate and brave. It removes the skin of an era and questions so many of the tropes that hover around nineteenth-century Southern American literature. It was...
View ArticleGlennon Melton on Vanessa Diffenbaugh’s The Language of Flowers
Our very own Glennon Melton recently posted on her website Momastery about fellow Union Literary author Vanessa Diffenbaugh’s new book. Melton and Diffenbaugh are close friends, and in Melton’s post,...
View ArticleThe Language of Flowers in Bulgaria
We’re blown away by the excitement and care with which Kragazor, the Bulgarian publisher of Vanessa Diffenbaugh’s bestselling The Language of Flowers, is approaching the novel’s publication. One of the...
View ArticleLori Gottlieb: “What Brand is Your Therapist?”
Union Literary client Lori Gottlieb‘s The New York Times Magazine article “What Brand is Your Therapist?” is sweeping the internet: this weekend, it was the #1 most circulated article on the New York...
View ArticleHand Me Down by Melanie Thorne Makes Kirkus Best Fiction of 2012
Melanie Thorne’s Hand Me Down, published this past April by Dutton, has been named one of the best works of fiction of 2012 by Kirkus! The review calls Liz “a wise, wry, wonderful heroine.” Dutton is...
View ArticleVictoria Kelly Wins the 2012 Coal Hill Chapbook Contest
We’ve just received the great news that Union Literary client Victoria Kelly is the winner of the 2012 Coal Hill Chapbook Contest. Besides the prize, Autumn House Press will be publishing her poetry...
View ArticleGlennon Doyle Melton Debuts at #3
We are beyond delighted to report that Glennon Doyle Melton’s Carry On, Warrior has debuted at #3 on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction list.
View ArticleA Fine Week for Flowers
Vanessa Diffenbaugh is having a bang-up week. Her marvelous novel THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS is currently #1 on the Boston Globe bestseller list, #3 on the San Francisco Chronicle/NCIBA bestseller list,...
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