Last of Her Name by Jessica Khoury6/20/2023 Origin isn’t the first book Khoury created. and I have a great team of supporters who worked with me." “Some people may say this just happened overnight, but it didn’t. You can write a book in a month, but it takes months and months to get it ready to go out into the world,” Khoury says in an interview from her home in Georgia. “It’s important to know it’s a long process. And that’s not all: The 22-year-old Khoury is already writing her second novel for Penguin, and she has embarked on the publisher’s Breathless Reads tour.īut while the past two years have been a veritable whirlwind, Khoury wants to emphasize-especially to aspiring authors-that, as easy or speedy as her timeline might appear, writing and publishing a book takes significant time and effort. On September 4, Origin-a thought-provoking YA novel with a fascinating premise-debuts with an impressive 250,000-copy first printing. This year, she finished revising the book, appeared at book and library conventions and traveled to the jungle for the first time. In 2011, she wrote a book (in about a month) that was snapped up by Penguin’s Razorbill imprint. Publishing phenom Jessica Khoury has had a busy couple of years: In 2010, she graduated from college and got married.
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