Congratulations to 2022 Work-In-Progress Fellow Ananda Lima on the publication of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil.
Latinx in Publishing is thrilled to announce the publication of the Work-in-Progress Fellow Ananda Lima's fiction debut Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil which will be published by Tor Books/Macmillan on June 18, 2024! The inaugural Fellowship sponsored by Macmillan was designed to help support and create opportunities for Latinx writers. Author Ananda Lima was paired with Macmillan Senior Editor Ali Fisher working with her during the course of the Fellowship. Congratulations Ananda -- we're so happy to celebrate Craft's publication!
Early praise for Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima:
⭐️"One of the most original and unforgettable reads of the year." --Library Journal (starred review)
⭐️"A terrific fiction debut. The stories, and stories within stories, connect to some of the cruelest portions of the human experience with uncommon warmth and wit." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
⭐️"Will delight readers." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Craft: Stories I wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima
At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughout her life and she writes stories for him about things that are both impossible and true.
Lima lures readers into surreal pockets of the United States and Brazil where they'll find bite-size Americans in vending machines and the ghosts of people who are not dead. Once there, she speaks to modern Brazilian-American immigrant experiences-of ambition, fear, longing, and belonging--and reveals the porousness of storytelling and of the places we call home.
2022-2023 Fellow
SARAH MARIE JETTE (she/her) is Mexican American and grew up in Lewiston, Maine, in a house filled with books. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, she served in the Peace Corps in Mongolia, studied rehabilitation counseling, and now has the best job in the world: teaching third graders. Jette was honored as a semifinalist in the 2022 Massachusetts Teacher of the Year recognition. Her book, What the Wind Can Tell You (Islandport Press, 2018) was on the 2019 Massachusetts Book Awards Must Read List, received the 2018 Lupine Honor Award from the Maine Library Association, and was on the 2018 New England Children’s Booksellers Advisory Council’s Windows and Mirror’s List. Jette lives in Massachusetts. When she's not teaching or writing, she's crafting with her three children or snuggling with her cats.
2022-2023 mentor
JESS HAROLD (she/her) is an editor of children's books from picture books through YA, with a passion for stories that reflect the world for kids of all experiences. She's worked with some truly incredible authors including Angeline Boulley, Kacen Callender, and Joanna Ho. Jess began her career in marketing at Simon & Schuster Children's before moving to editorial at Scholastic. Now an Editor at Henry Holt BYR, she is eager to find more contemporary stories that center identity and its many intersections in the hopes of creating building blocks for a better world.
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