How to guarantee that I will pre-order and voraciously consume your novel:
- Name your novel KITTENTITS because I love a title that has no shame.
- Have a hot pink cover because I love hot pink.
- Have a hot pink cover with a cute kitten on it because I love cats.
- Have a hot pink cover with a cute kitten on it and shiny silver starry eyes because shiny silver covers remind me of the first comic book I bought.
- Have GONE GIRL’s Gillian Flynn tweet about your book because I love Gillian Flynn.
Introducing KITTENTITS by Holly Wilson! Coming May 21 from Gillian Flynn Books and @zandoprojects.
— Gillian Flynn (@TheGillianFlynn) February 16, 2024
KITTENTITS is a feral, heart-busting, absurdist debut about Molly, a rambunctious and bawdy ten-year-old searching for friendship and ghosts. pic.twitter.com/oZqmOtkiSr - Have Gillian Flynn’s imprint publish your novel because I will read anything that she helps will into the world.
- Have a significant portion of your novel takes place in Chicago.
- Have your novel center around inventively filthy-mouthed dirtbags because I am a filthy-mouthed dirtbag and can use the company.
- Have your novel center around filthy-mouthed dirtbags who are young aimless fuckups who make all of the wrong choices because it will remind me of my youthful indiscretions.
- Have your story be intensely internal, peppered with loss and trauma and fucked up circumstances that slowly unfurl into an absurdly comical and fantastical and horrific tale that leaves you questioning what you just read while also savoring its twists and deft prose.
See? Nothing to it. If you need more help, read Holly Wilson’s KITTENTITS because there’s far more of interest in her debut work than I have listed here.