NEWS & PRESS
PRE-ORDER
As of July, 2024, Red Dog Farm is available for pre-order! Find the links here. We all know the gods smile upon those who pre-order.
CLUB DES LECTEURS
In June, 2024, the paperback of L’Odyssée de Sven won the Prix Club des Lecteurs J’ai Lu, a prize awarded by readers. J’ai Lu will print another 13,000 copies with the special bellyband.
RED DOG FARM
The new novel, Red Dog Farm, is scheduled to be published by Little, Brown & Co., on March 4, 2025. Check back for updates.
Printings
As of September ‘23, both the paperback US edition of TMOSS and L’Odyssée de Sven are in their third printings. Thanks for reading!
Sven in France
L’Odyssée de Sven was published in France in August, 2022 (Buchet Chastel, translated by the incomparable Mona de Pracontal) and is receiving some lovely reviews. Here’s a sample: ActuaLitté; Sud Ouest; La Dépêche du Midi; Babelio; Page; Kima Mori; Les Libraires Ensemble.
Seven Days
In a beautiful review, Margot Harrison says TMOSS is “a book one savors for its prose, its characters and its insights.” Read the full piece here.
Ghosts of events past
If you missed these recent speaking engagements, find them here: Odyssey Bookshop with Caitlin Horrocks; Newburyport Literary Festival with David Arnold; Mark Twain Library with Margaret Dunham
Vermont Book Award
TMOSS has been chosen as a finalist for the Vermont Book Award. Check out all the other nominees here.
The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times’s Nick Rennison picks Sven as one of the best historical fiction books of 2022, calling it a “striking first novel” and “an unusual, surprisingly witty tale, with a memorable central character.”
Italian edition
TMOSS will be published by Atlantide in 2022.
Winnipeg Free Press
In her lovely review, Harriet Zaidman says that Sven is “brilliantly written” and “embarrassingly funny.” Check it out here.
Hudson Books
Sven made it to Hudson Booksellers’ “Best Books of 2021.” Look for it on display in an airport or train station near you! Full list here.
Libro.fm
The audiobook has made it to “What We Loved in 2021: Libro.fm Staff Favorites.” The full list is here.
AudioFile Magazine
Ólafur Darri Ólafsson’s beautiful reading of Sven has won an Earphones Award from AudioFile Magazine. Check out the review here.
Oprah
Sven is called “eloquent,” “finely chiseled,” and one of “10 Titles to Pick up Now” in the Winter 2021 issue of O Quarterly.
In conversation with Christina Baker Kline
If you missed my 11/9 conversation with the brilliant Christina Baker Kline, hosted by Northshire Bookstore, fear not! You can watch the whole thing here.
Marginalia
Interview with Beth Golay for Marginalia, a wonderful program from KMUW Wichita. Download the podcast from here.
BookBrowse
David Bahia reviews Sven and pens a very cool auxiliary piece about Svalbard/Spitsbergen for BookBrowse. Available here and here.
BookPage
In a starred review for BookPage, Alice Cary writes that Sven is “beautifully stark and unimaginably rich, a book that will long be remembered by its lucky readers.” Check out the full review right here.
Interview with Debutiful
Check out “A Life of Books,” an interview with Debutiful, right here.
Interview with the ABA for Indie Next
I was interviewed by Emily Behnke in honor of Sven being chosen as November’s Indie Next Top Pick. Check it out here.
Essay about dogs in Literary Hub
“On Writing a Book for Dog People,” an essay about dogs & TMOSS, is up on Literary Hub here.
New York Times Book Review
The NYTBR calls TMOSS “briskly entertaining … I was reminded more than once of Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News.”
People Book of the Week
“Funny, moving and ceaselessly compelling,” writes Mary Pols in People, where Sven has been chosen as ‘book of the week’ for the 11/1/21 issue. The review can be found on newsstands everywhere, or online here.
Lithuanian edition & large print edition
Balto Leidybos Namai will publish TMOSS in Lithuania in 2023 and Thorndike Press in large print in March, 2022.
Buzzfeed’s All the Books We Read and Loved
Buzzfeed places Sven on its list of ‘All the Books We Read and Loved Being Released This October.’ Full list right here.
The Millions Most Anticipated
The Millions adds Sven to their ‘October Preview: The Millions Most Anticipated (This Month).’ Check out the full list here.
Buzzfeed’s Best Historical Fiction of the Fall
Buzzfeed adds Sven to its list of ‘17 Historical Fiction Books You’re Going to Want to Read this Fall.’ Check out Kirby Beaton’s piece here.
Indie Next Number One Pick
Sven has been chosen as the No. 1 Indie Next pick for November 2021 by independent booksellers across the country, all of whom I would like to embrace. Check out the full list here.
Booklist
“Miller’s prose is lit by sparks of Sven’s somber humor and descriptive elegance... Miller's characterization is exceptional and thoroughly engaging, as are the vividly portrayed island denizens… Miller has given [Sven] an imagined life told in his own words in this engrossing fictional memoir,” says Bethany Latham in a starred review for Booklist. Check out the full review here.
Publishers Weekly
“Captivating debut … powerful dramatic fiction,” says Publishers Weekly in a starred review. Check out the full review here.
Kirkus Reviews
“Readers will love the beauty and depth of his story,” says Kirkus in a starred review. Check out the full review here.
Center for Fiction
July, 2021 — Sven has been long-listed for the 2021 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Read more about his incredible company here.
France edition
Buchet Chastel will publish TMOSS in the fall of 2022.
Russia edition
Eksmo will publish TMOSS in the near future.
UK edition
John Murray Press will publish TMOSS in hardcover on January 20, 2022. Their export paperback will go out this October, 2021, to Ireland, Australia, and English-language book-shelves throughout Europe and the Commonwealth.