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The Hardest Part: Nathan Kotecki on Pull Down the Night

Posted on 2013-10-22 at 14:48 by montsamu

Durham author Nathan Kotecki's debut novel, 2012's The Suburban Strange, was an exercise in lengthy revision, as Kotecki wrote about in a The Hardest Part piece about its writing. When I got to talk to Kotecki about his new sequel, Pull Down the Night, on Carolina Book Beat, I started to get the impression that his second book had been an almost painless process. Not quite so, as the author writes here. Welcome back, Nathan Kotecki, to The Hardest Part:

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Release Day: Pull Down the Night by Nathan Kotecki

Posted on 2013-10-08 at 19:10 by montsamu

Tuesday October 8, 2013: Durham author Nathan Kotecki's first novel, last year's The Suburban Strange, introduced Suburban High and its supernatural conflicts through the eyes of newcomer Celia. Today, Kotecki's standalone sequel, Pull Down the Night, is out and available in hardcover and ebook [Kobo|Nook|Kindle] from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers. Pull Down the Night welcomes a new newcomer, Bruno, to Suburban High, for the school year following the events of The Suburban Strange -- whi

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The Hardest Part: Nathan Kotecki on The Suburban Strange

Posted on 2012-11-07 at 22:7 by montsamu

Durham author Nathan Kotecki's debut novel is a young adult urban fantasy novel The Suburban Strange [Goodreads | IndieBound], and he is as a self-described  "classic literature snob" who has never read Twilight or Harry Potter. Cue the contradictions? Maybe not, as you may learn in this week's "The Hardest Part". Writing outside the influence of these commercial juggernauts gave Kotecki some freedom to follow his own storytelling urges -- and also led to an interesting revision process both with his agent

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