News – Anna Vaught Writes

Hello all!

So, Saving Lucia (Bluemoose Books) has been out in the world a while and it will be interesting to see how this girl flies. As you can imagine, launching a book during lockdown was not an easy feat – for anyone involved in the process, but we did it!

Here: https://bluemoosebooks.com/books or how about here, where we would have had the launch: https://mrbsemporium.com/shop/books/saving-lucia/

Next up, is Famished, which is out with Influx Press on September 10th and it is my first short story collection.

Famished
Anna Vaught

In this dark and toothsome collection, Anna Vaught enters a strange world of apocryphal feasts and disturbing banquets. Famished explores the perils of selfish sensuality and trifle while child rearing, phantom sweetshop owners, the revolting use of sherbet in occult rituals, homicide by seaside rock, and the perversion of Thai Tapas. Once, that is, you’ve been bled dry from fluted cups by pretty incorporeals and learned about consuming pride in the hungriest of stately homes. Famished: eighteen stories to whet your appetite and ruin your dinner.

Oooh sounds wonderfully revolting, doesn’t it? ARCs are out and about at the moment. You can subscribe to Influx or pre-order the book here or at any good bookshop. https://www.influxpress.com/shop?category=Short+Stories Have a browse on the whole site while you are here?

In other news, I have two further books waiting on reads and I am rewriting a novel for my literary agency, MW Literary, which is in New York, but also represented in Britain by Kate Johnson, who is the best girl, pal and literary agent you could have and I look forward to lots of adventures with her. What else? I will write separately about weird fiction and essays I have coming out, I think that September will be a bit of a news month one way and another (ooooh) and let me just say again that, if you would like to be mentored, for free, between September and January on a full-length novel or short story collection, please do get in touch by the end of the first week in July. Contact button the site and this is for low income writers only, please.

Love and lots more news soon,

Anna.