Books Deals: Melody Schreiber's What We Didn't Expect Acquired by Melville House!

I’m so so wildly excited about this book.

By now, I feel like everyone in the book world knows how I feel about anthologies. I adore them. Whether they are fiction or non-fiction, they give readers the chance to explore a particular topic through the voices of many writers. And this topic? Premature birth? It’s such an important one.

I’ve known Melody for a while, and it was such a delight to see her proposal hit my inbox last year. And now, it’s a total honor to announce this book, and that it’ll be hitting bookstores everywhere later this fall.

Her debut collection, WHAT WE DIDN’T EXPECT: PERSONAL STORIES OF PREMATURE BIRTH, has been acquired by Melville House. Here’s the blip from Publisher’s Marketplace:

Journalist Melody Schreiber’s WHAT WE DIDN’T EXPECT: PERSONAL STORIES OF PREMATURE BIRTH, a collection of essays about the way premature birth shapes families and identities, from writers like Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Sarah DiGregorio, Tyrese Coleman, Anne Thériault, Kelsey Osgood, Dan Koboldt, and more, to Ryan Harrington at Melville House, for publication in Fall 2020, by Eric Smith at P.S. Literary (World).

That’s right, there are some amazing voices in this collection, and even more are going to be announced in the coming months, so make sure you’re following Melody on social media to hear more.

Congrats Melody, this book is going to mean a lot to so many people.