NEW YORK (AP) — At age 29, with a number of novels and hundreds of thousands of copies bought behind her, R.F. Kuang is simply getting began.
The creator of “Yellowface” and the present bestseller “Katabasis,” Kuang has an settlement with HarperCollins Publishers for 4 extra books, together with a pair of fantasy novels for the imprint Harper Voyager and a pair of “literary” novels for the William Morrow imprint.
Kuang already has a literary novel within the works, “Taipei Story,” scheduled for subsequent yr. And she or he is a Ph.D pupil at Yale College.
“The out of the gate success for Katabasis is a testament to Rebecca’s extraordinary storytelling and her ability to connect with fans,” Liate Stehlik, president and writer of HarperCollins and HarperCollins Youngsters’s Books, stated in a press release launched Wednesday. She referred to as Kuang’s upcoming work an “exciting slate of new books.”
Kuang’s earlier novels additionally embrace “The Poppy War,” “The Dragon Republic” and “Babel, or the Necessity of Violence.”