Bird box book cover6/5/2023 ![]() But it wasn’t one of the titles the publisher’s folks had chosen to play up.īy comparison, this is one of the books that did not get the kind of attention that Emily St. ![]() At the London Book Fair, the novel - from HarperCollins Voyager in the UK - was standing on a shelf at the company’s sleek, big pavilion at Earls Court. And there were managerial changes at its Stateside HarperCollins imprint, Ecco Books. The book was well-received but never seemed to get the kind of publishing-house support it needed to move into the channels of real attention it deserved. Its release timing didn’t make it a trade-show title, something that could have been reconsidered. The book also offers one of the strongest, most sophisticated female protagonists you’ll find in a lot of reading - one whom Malerman told me “wants to smash her fist through the wall.” We covered the release of Malerman’s book here at Thought Catalog because it was one of freshest, most intelligent debuts of 2014. The author’s Bird Box was named the winner on Tuesday (February 24). ![]() Josh Malerman has won This Is Horror’s Novel of the Year award blindfolded. You write because you love reading, and you write horror because you believe in the monsters, you believe in the imagination, you believe in the dark. ![]()
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