Nimbus excerpt at Lit Hub + 10 Questions at P&W

LitHub has an excerpt from The Nimbus up today. Check it out!

Also, I recently answered Poets & Writers ' Ten Questions. A sample:

7. What is one thing that your agent or editor told you during the process of publishing this book that stuck with you?

My agent, Amelia Atlas, and editor, Tim Duggan, have both given me plenty of terrific wisdom, but one piece of advice I keep returning to lately came from a friend, Elliot Ackerman. He warned me that it’s tremendously easy to get distracted by all the stuff that isn’t happening to and for your book instead of paying attention to the good things that are. The winner-take-all logic that dominates publishing (as it dominates every other part of American life) makes it way too easy to slip into a scarcity mindset. Precisely because I’m not immune to that temptation, I have to remind myself constantly that that mindset is a terrible way to think about art. Yes, I want my book to find its way into the hands of readers who will enjoy it—as many as possible, obviously—but I also know that good books are good for the world. The more of them that get celebrated, the better it is for everyone.

Read the rest here (it's paywalled, but you can read it for free if you register with P&W).