Emerging Writers Network: Dzanc Books Announces First Title to be Published

Nice Things Said Re: EWN

"Dan Wickett is serious about a good read. But the EWN email list doesn't just deliver his sure-footed reviews; it also brings you news and connections to other writers. Sign up now - he understands what readers want to know about books." Quinn Dalton, author, Bulletproof Girl
1.
"Mr. Wickett is that rarely heard from but best of all possible reviewers - the dedicated and knowledgeable fan. He writes clean-cutting and fresh reviews that represent a sensibility unspoiled by over-exposure to the biz of books, but deeply in love with them." Daniel Woodrell, author, Winter's Bone
3.
"Dan Wickett is a reader's best friend. Not only does he read and trenchantly review new work, but he looks back to books that deserve ongoing readership. I've lost track of the number of times he's led me to boks that I overlooked (or never knew about), and that were a delight. There aren't many reviewers I will let shape my library, but Dan Wickett is one." Erin McGraw, author, The Baby Tree

Paid Advertising

Dzanc Creative Writing Sessions
Dzanc Books - Best of the Web 2010

November 05, 2006

Dzanc Books Announces First Title to be Published

Dzanc Books is proud to announce we have found the book that will become our first title: Roy Kesey's extraordinary debut short story collection, All Over. Dzanc Books will publish All Over in October 2007.

Roy Kesey has been hailed as one our best young writers, and All Over presents 19 of his most original and provocative stories. George Saunders called Kesey's writing, "beautiful and powerful ... mythic, vivid, heart-rending." Roy's work has appeared in over 50 top flight journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Mississippi Review, and The Georgia Review. Several of the stories in All Over have previously appeared in journals such as Kenyon Review, McSweeney's, Other Voices, and The Iowa Review.

Roy currently lives in Beijing, where in addition to writing incredible fiction, he also writes two regular columns -- "Dispatches from Roy Kesey, an American Guy Married to a Peruvian Diplomat Living in China," for the McSweeney's website, and "Little-Known Corners," which appears monthly in That's Beijing. Kesey's writing in All Over is filled with great inventiveness, his characters and stories at once unique and familiar. Roy believes that " ... there has to be someting fundamentally human threaded through all that -- fear and pain and love and worry and jealousy and generosity and spilled juice, say - for it to be worth writing or reading." (Interview with Richard Cooper at Satori Kick).

Roy Kesey has previously published the novella, Nothing in the World (2006, Bullfight Press). Tom Bissell described it as "Beautiful, brave, and I will not forget it soon." Dzanc Books is delighted to be able to expose more of Roy's writing to a much wider audience by publishing a collection of his short stories. As a young writer whose novella was unanimously well received, and with a lengthy story publishing resume, Roy is on the verge of exploding onto the scene. And we here at Dzanc Books are thrilled to be able to announce the forthcoming publication of All Over.

For any further information, send to [email protected]

Dan Wickett - [email protected]

Steve Gillis - [email protected]

November 05, 2006 in Dzanc Books | Permalink