Being a debut novelist always has its own sets of challenges and high points, but in 2021, the experience is indelibly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, when authors with books coming out in the near future aren\u2019t doing readings in bookstores or having book parties.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To find out what it\u2019s like to have a debut novel published in 2021, I asked\u00a0Aggie Blum Thompson<\/a>, author of thriller\u00a0I Don\u2019t Forgive You<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Forge, June 8) and creator of the website\u00a02021 Debuts<\/a>, an offshoot of the\u00a0private Facebook group<\/a>\u00a0of the same, about her experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Being a debut novelist always has its own sets of challenges and high points, but in 2021, the experience is indelibly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, when authors with books coming out in the near future aren\u2019t doing readings in bookstores or having book parties.\u00a0 To find out what it\u2019s like to have a debut … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aggieblumthompson.com\/staging\/2456\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aggieblumthompson.com\/staging\/2456\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aggieblumthompson.com\/staging\/2456\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aggieblumthompson.com\/staging\/2456\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aggieblumthompson.com\/staging\/2456\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aggieblumthompson.com\/staging\/2456\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1077,"href":"https:\/\/aggieblumthompson.com\/staging\/2456\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions\/1077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aggieblumthompson.com\/staging\/2456\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aggieblumthompson.com\/staging\/2456\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aggieblumthompson.com\/staging\/2456\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}