Finally, Some Baby and Book News!
I’ve been teasing that I have big news to share for about a year now, and I can finally share some of it: Rachel and I had a baby!
Introducing baby Courage,
’s highly anticipated THIRD debut of the year! Our littlest Golden Girl was born in early June and is happy, healthy, and ready to take on the world (and we’re doing good, too).
I'm also extremely excited to finally share some advance praise—from literary superstars Stewart O'Nan, Tom Perrotta, and Rick Moody!—for my deeply cathartic adult debut, A YEAR WITHOUT GUNS (written in the wake of becoming a banned book author and currently on submission to publishers, so I’m crossing my fingers it finds a good home)!
From the pitch: A YEAR WITHOUT GUNS is a high concept, discourse shifting, sucker punch of a book about taking people’s guns away. Thought-provoking, empathetic, and even funny, A YEAR WITHOUT GUNS is a kaleidoscopic exploration of life in the immediate aftermath of legislation that repeals the Second Amendment.
"What if the U.S. government came for everyone’s guns? Nick Courage teases out his unthinkable conceit with gusto and pitiless logic. Like Chuck Palahniuk’s ADJUSTMENT DAY and Philip Roth’s THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA, A YEAR WITHOUT GUNS is a cautionary tale of a country divided—maybe fatally." —Stewart O’Nan, author of THE SPEED QUEEN and OCEAN STATE
"In this timely and thought-provoking book, Nick Courage imagines an upside-down world in which the government really is taking away everyone’s guns. With an intriguing mosaic-like structure, A YEAR WITHOUT GUNS explores its through-the-looking-glass scenario from a wide variety of perspectives, depicting an America that is both familiar and deeply strange." —Tom Perrotta, author of THE LEFTOVERS and ELECTION
“Swift, devastating, threatening.” —Rick Moody, author of GARDEN STATE and THE ICE STORM
I’m hoping the publishing gods smile on me and I have more chances to talk about this book, which came to me like a vision. If you’re an editor friend who’d like to take a look, you can email hello@courageliterary.com with editorial and rights inquiries.
More baby and book news to come, but first: sleep!
Your friend,
