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April Genevieve Tucholke
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
Period2013–present
GenreYoung adult and Gothic and Mystery and Fantasy and Picture books
Notable works
Notable awardsYALSA Top 10 Teens Choice, Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2018
Website
apriltucholke.com

April Genevieve Tucholke (/təˈhɒlki/ tə-HOLL-kee[1]) is an American author based in Georgia. She is best known for her Gothic horror novel Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea and its sequel Between the Spark and the Burn, as well as a dark young adult mystery novel Wink Poppy Midnight, all published by Penguin Books.

Biography

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Tucholke grew up on a farm in the Midwest and has since lived in a variety of places, including Colorado, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Oregon and Scotland. She currently lives in Savannah, Georgia.[2]

Career

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Tucholke was initially represented by Joanna Volpe of New Leaf Literary, who offered representation within 24 hours of receiving the manuscript for Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.[3] The book sold to Penguin's imprint Dial, who purchased the book in a preemptive deal.

Tucholke edited the anthology Slasher Girls & Monster Boys (Penguin, 2015), and her third novel Wink Poppy Midnight was published by Penguin Books in 2016. She contributed to Because You Love to Hate Me, an anthology of short stories written by 13 YA authors who were paired with 13 BookTubers published in July 2017.[4]

The Boneless Mercies, a gender-bent retelling of Beowulf, was published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in October, 2018. A companion novel, The Seven Endless Forests, a gender-bent retelling of the King Arthur legend with a Norse twist, was published in 2020.

Tucholke's first picture book, Beatrice Likes the Dark was published in September, 2022 from Algonquin, an imprint of Workman Publishing Company with illustrations by Khoa Lee. A second picture book, Merry and Hark: A Christmas Story with illustrations by Rebecca Santo was published in 2023 also from Algonquin.

Tucholke is now represented by Laura Rennert at Andrea Brown Literary.[5]

Works

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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea duology

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  1. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (2013)
  2. Between the Spark and the Burn (2014)

Standalone

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Fantasies

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Picture books

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  • Beatrice Likes the Dark (2022)
  • Merry and Hark: A Christmas Story (2023)

Adult Nonfiction

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  • The Secret Life of Hidden Places (2024), in collaboration with Stefan Bachmann

Anthologies

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  • Slasher Girls & Monster Boys (Editor and Contributing Writer) (2015)
  • Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy (Contributing Writer) (2017)

Book awards

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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

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  • 2014 YALSA Teens Top Ten award selection
  • 2014 Kentucky Blue Grass Award nominee
  • 2014 Westchester Fiction Award, Honorable Mention

Wink Poppy Midnight

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  • YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults
  • YALSA Top Ten Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults
  • A Junior Library Guild Selection
  • Spring 2016 Kids’ Indie Next List
  • Amazon Editors' Best Books of the month, March 2016
  • Teen Vogue’s Best New YA Books of 2016
  • PureWow's Best of Spring
  • Popcrush's 10 best Young Adult Books of 2016
  • Mashable's best young adult books of 2016

The Boneless Mercies

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References

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  1. ^ "Author Q&A with April Genevieve Tucholke". YouTube. September 5, 2022. Retrieved October 4, 2022.
  2. ^ "April Genevieve Tucholke's website". April Genevieve Tucholke. Retrieved September 10, 2022.
  3. ^ "Query Series: April Tucholke and Joanna Volpe". YA Highway. May 24, 2013. Retrieved September 20, 2014.
  4. ^ Shannon Maughan (April 28, 2016). "Bloomsbury Anthology Pairs YA Authors and Booktubers". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
  5. ^ "April Genevieve Tucholke". April Genevieve Tucholke. Retrieved February 17, 2024.
  6. ^ "Best Books 2018 Publishers Weekly".
  7. ^ "Green Mountain Book Award (GMBA) | Colchester, VT". colchestervt.gov. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
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