Alex George Books

Amidst all the madness of the Coronavirus, a little good news. For a while now I’ve been sitting on various developments that I have not been allowed to tell anyone about. Some are still under wraps, but I am now thrilled to be able to report that THE PARIS HOURS has been selected as one of the five titles for …

This is a re-post of a blog I recently wrote on my bookshop’s website. Stay safe, everyone. There’s a joke going around right now that the “social isolation” required by the spreading COVID-19 virus is every reader’s dream come true. Whether for solace, entertainment, or education, books and reading feel more important than ever right now. And, of course, if …

There will be no Unbound Book Festival this year. The festival was due to take place from April 23 to 26, 2020 – while that’s still six weeks away, the continued spread of the COVID-19 virus means that cancelation is the only option that will protect the health and safety of our audiences, our guest writers, our volunteers – and of our …

Here’s a slightly edited version of this month’s newsletter which was sent out last week. (If you’d like to subscribe, you can do so here.) Happy March to you all, and a special welcome to all those lovely people who subscribed to this newsletter because it was my fiftieth birthday recently and they felt sorry for me. It’s been busy around …

The tour dates for The Paris Hours have been finalized. My thanks to Amelia at Flatiron for putting this all together, and for her unending patience in putting up with my questions and queries. If I’m coming to a town near you, please come by and say hi! We couldn’t make it to everywhere, but oh well. There’s always the …

Today is my fiftieth birthday. I confess that I have always been rather dismissive of people who pay too much attention to their age. And yet here I am, half a century old, rethinking all this. 50 does feel like a milestone worth reflecting upon, just a little. If you’d asked me twenty-five years ago where I would be in …

  The months prior to a book’s publication be a discombobulating time. There’s always a lot to do to help the novel into the world – articles to write, interviews to give, talks to prepare, newsletters to compose – but these things in service of the book that you actually finished months or even years ago, while important, feel strangely disconnected. I’m a novelist, …

See these beauties? Would you like them? To celebrate the forthcoming publication of my third novel in May, I’m giving away all three books – hardback first editions of A Good American and Setting Free the Kites, and an exclusive cannot-buy-it-anywhere galley of The Paris Hours. I’ll sign them all, of course, and if you want I’ll personalize them however you like. I’m …

I’m delighted to announce that for speaking engagements I am now represented by the wonderful agency, Blue Flower Arts. I have worked with Alison Granucci and her team at BFA for several years in my capacity as director of the Unbound Book Festival. Together we have brought wonderful writers like George Saunders, Mark Doty, Marie Howe, Jericho Brown and Tracy K. Smith …

It’s about six months until publication of The Paris Hours, which means that things are beginning to crank up around here. The lovely people at Flatiron Books have developed an impressive marketing plan which they will be rolling out and implementing over the months ahead. Look out for multiple galley giveaways on Goodreads, social media posts, various pre-publication trips to …