By Hillel Italie AP Nationwide Author
NEW YORK (AP) — Prize-winning fiction author Deesha Philyaw, who struggled to discover a writer for what turned her acclaimed debut “The Secret Lives of Church Girls,” has a 7-figure deal for her subsequent two books.
Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, introduced just lately that it had signed up Philyaw and can publish her novel “The True Confessions of First Girl Freeman” in 2025. Mariner calls the ebook a “biting satire” of the Black church and “a deeply provocative” story about household, friendship and “sexual company.” Philyaw, who attended a number of completely different church buildings as a toddler, is centering the novel round a megachurch chief.
“In writing ‘True Confessions,’ I actually wished to discover the narratives that 40- and 50-something Black ladies generally inform ourselves – in addition to the narratives advised about us – concerning our needs and aspirations,” Philyaw stated in a press release.
Her second ebook for Mariner, “Woman, Look,” is billed by the writer as a “poignant new assortment, giving a vivid snapshot of the inside lives of Black ladies throughout generations, drawing readers to contemplate Black ladies and ladies’ vulnerabilities, invisibility, and delightful contradictions, in a post-COVID, post-Breonna Taylor world.” Mariner has not set a launch date for “Woman, Look.”
“The Secret Lives of Church Girls,” a group of 9 tales, was launched by West Virginia College Press after a number of main New York publishers turned it down. It received the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Story Prize and the Los Angeles Instances Ebook Prize, and is being tailored for tv by HBO Max.
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This story has been up to date to appropriate the title of Philyaw’s subsequent ebook. The ebook’s title is “The True Confessions of First Girl Freeman,” not “True Confessions.”
