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Jacqueline Bublitz: Author's debut novel Before You Knew My Name sparks international bidding war - The Sunday Session with Francesca Rudkin
The Sunday Session with Francesca Rudkin
The debut novel from Taranaki author Jacqueline Bublitz has set the international publishing world alight.
Before You Knew My Name is a crime novel exploring trauma, connection and the cultural obsession with Dead Girls.
It’s been pitched as The Lovely Bones for the MeToo era and earned high praise from mega-star author Marian Keys, who described it as “unusual, beautiful, feminist, gripping, deserves to win prizes”.
And the book is now getting published worldwide after sparking a massive bidding war between publishers.
Bublitz joined Francesca Rudkin from her home in New Plymouth to discuss the excitement around her novel.
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Before You Knew My Name is a crime novel exploring trauma, connection and the cultural obsession with Dead Girls.
It’s been pitched as The Lovely Bones for the MeToo era and earned high praise from mega-star author Marian Keys, who described it as “unusual, beautiful, feminist, gripping, deserves to win prizes”.
And the book is now getting published worldwide after sparking a massive bidding war between publishers.
Bublitz joined Francesca Rudkin from her home in New Plymouth to discuss the excitement around her novel.
LISTEN ABOVE
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