Miranda Schmidt

Debuting: How Do You Measure Success? A Conversation with Roohi Choudhry (part 2 of 3)

In this second part of my conversation with my pub date buddy, Roohi Choudhry, we try to figure out what standards we want to use to measure the success of our first novels and how things are going two months in.

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26.06.2025 13:15 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

A section of the Small Press Featured Titles shelves at Powell’s bookstore, with 9 books shelved face-out

pals spotted on the Small Press Featured Titles shelves at Powell’s—Film Elegy by @laura-n-paul.bsky.social, Leafskin by @mirandarschmidt.bsky.social, & Show Me Where the Hurt Is by @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social 👏👏👏

20.06.2025 15:23 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 1

Such good company!! Thanks for the pic 💚 So happy to be on a shelf with you @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social!

25.06.2025 16:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I've been immensely lucky to work with Stillhouse press for my debut novel. Read about their process and projects in this interview with stellar publicist Taylor Schaefer!

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06.05.2025 16:30 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Still need a copy of Leafskin? Storygraph is hosting a giveaway of my debut novel about climate change, queer love, motherhood, poetry, art, forests, and selkies. Enter by May 18!
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25.04.2025 13:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I can't wait to talk hybrid writing with Ellene Glenn Moore for Brown Bag Lit! Ellene and I did our PhDs together, exploring poetry and prose, and we both have books out this spring.

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25.04.2025 13:24 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed the list.💚

01.04.2025 20:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In these novels, you can feel the folklore reaching out to pull you in. I loved writing about works by @arielgore.bsky.social, @rachelyoder.bsky.social, @alissahattman.bsky.social, @poingu.bsky.social, and more incredible authors for @electricliterature.com!

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29.03.2025 23:12 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

Slow Growth and the Novel My first book comes out tomorrow

I wrote about the slow pace of novel writing, trees, my first book coming out.

25.03.2025 16:35 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a green rectangle and book covers in three rows of 4 book covers each. Each spot has a book cover.

Dogs Don’t Break Hearts by ‘Nathan Burgoine
Leafskin by Miranda Schmidt
The Prince & the Player by Nora Phoenix
A Gardener's Guide to Love and Loathing by Chelsea Pennington
A Basic Binary (Not So Normative Book 2) by D.C. Emerson

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Legend of the Quill (The Prophet's Tale Book 1) by Astra Crompton

02.03.2025 19:36 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

my amazing partner Miranda Schmidt's debut Leafskin is out imminently from Stillhouse Press! Release date 3/25, preorders open. Queer family, sequoias, bodies and climate change, and the blur of it all. It's so so good and definitely worth a look! #booksky

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18.03.2025 21:06 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0