SRÁZ – THE EDGE Comes to Czechia!
I’m a bit late in announcing this, but my debut novel THE EDGE has now been translated into Czech! Czech speakers can learn more and get a copy of SRÁZ here. Translation rights have been one of my favourite things about being a published author. Every so often I’ll get an email from my agent saying: “Would you like X monies for the book to be published in X language?” and once I give my unsurprising yes, I don’t have to do anything. Seriously, it just gets translated and published while I sit back and worry about other things. I’m…
SMALL SECRETS, Coming 17th October!
I am thrilled to finally share the news that my second novel, SMALL SECRETS, will be publishing this October with Thomas & Mercer in ebook, paperback, and audio! SMALL SECRETS is the story of two true crime podcasters, now on a disgraced hiatus after wrongfully accusing an innocent man, who decide to reinvestigate an unsolved murder from their hometown seventeen years ago after the killer strikes again in the present. But as they dig up hometown secrets that were meant to stay in the past, the foundation of their friendship cracks. How well do either of them really know what…
ABGRUND – THE EDGE Goes German!
I’ve been sitting on this news for over a year and a half, but I can finally say it: my debut novel THE EDGE is being translated into German as ABGRUND, and it publishes in July! A Well-Kept Secret Back in August of 2021, I was outside repainting the summerhouse and listening to Taylor Swift in the sunshine when my agent, Hannah Schofield, called me with “exciting German news”. At this point we’d been on submission for just over a month, and while all we’d heard from UK editors were polite passes, I was aware that there was some interest…
THE EDGE is an Amazon First Read!
I’m thrilled, amazed, baffled, and terrified to reveal that my debut novel THE EDGE is included in this month’s Amazon First Reads selection for the UK and Australia! 1st November has been my release date for a long, long time. As I’ve discussed on this blog many times before, publishing is a long, slow slog of a process, and each writer has many secrets to keep along the way. Amazon First Reads was the biggest of mine. Because although November is still the official release date for the ebook and paperback, and that’s when it’ll release to the North American…
THE EDGE, Publishing November!
In my last post, I was heading off on submission for the first ever time with my psychological thriller I’M HERE FOR YOU, and I didn’t know what the outcome would be. Would any editors want to see the full novel? Would I get an offer? Would I be going back out on submission with a new book sooner than I realised? I just didn’t know. Well, as it turns out, submission was rather successful! I’m thrilled to announce (late, as I already broke the news on Twitter, then Instagram, then Facebook) that my debut novel, now called THE EDGE,…
On Submission
I’m pretty sure I ended my last post with the promise of posting another very soon — and then in true Lucy style, didn’t post again for two years. I never mean to do this. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a socially anxious girl and blog posts often feel like the online equivalent of running naked through town screaming “look at me, look at me!!”, so in times of stress, busyness, and pandemics, it’s generally easier to avoid them entirely. But I’m back! And I have news! While many people spent 2020 baking bread, training puppies, and getting into houseplants,…
That One Yes
Querying literary agents is often a slog, lasting multiple years and multiple manuscripts, generating dozens, hundreds, maybe even thousands of rejections — but in the end, you only need one agent to love your book. That’s it. One query, one agent, and one yes. Well, two months ago, I got that yes. I am incredibly happy to announce that I am now represented by literary agent Luigi Bonomi of LBA! I’m so excited to work with the LBA team on the books I love — psychological thrillers with dark twists, emotional arcs, and positive feminist messages — and I really hope we’ll…
Limbo
As I wrote in my last post, Just Press Send, I’ve taken the first step in my publishing journey and started querying: sending my work out to literary agents in the hope that one of them will want to represent me as a writer. While there are other routes to getting a novel in print — self-publishing, indie presses — I’ve always wanted to be traditionally published and see my books for sale in a real-life bookshop, and for that a literary agent is essential. So three weeks ago I got all my files together, wrote a kick-ass query letter,…
Just Press Send
On Friday morning I sat in bed with various empty chocolate wrappers around me and two dozen drafted emails on my laptop screen. After years of work on THE GIRL YOU LEFT BEHIND, I was finally ready to go: book completed, literary agents researched, queries typed, email addresses copied, and files attached. There was nothing stopping me from taking this next exciting step in my life – except for me. I couldn’t press send. I am a woman of inaction. I’ve always suffered from social anxiety, which means I spend my life feeling acutely aware of what could go wrong…
The End
A lot has changed in my life in the past three years, but there’s been one constant: my novel, The Girl You Left Behind. It’s been my shadow, growing and evolving from a dream-inspired scrawl in a notebook to a first draft, a second, a third, a fourth, and now, finally, into a finished product. For the first time since 2015, I am no longer writing a book — I have written it. It feels momentous. It’s always a wonderful thing to have completed a novel, and that’s a feeling I experienced before with my book Beyond the Call of Beauty,…
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Lucy Goacher 