Esther Yi's Y/N was named one of “The Best Books of 2023 So Far” by Time Magazine, praised as an “electric debut novel” with “sharp prose.” Astra House published the book on March 21, 2023.
THE LAST ANIMAL by Ramona Ausubel was selected as one of Barnes & Noble's “Best Books of 2023 (So Far),” in the “Best Literary Novels” category. Riverhead Books published then novel on April 18, 2023.
SWIM HOME TO THE VANISHED was included in the San Francisco Chronicle's roundup of must-read books for this summer: “In the opening pages of SWIM HOME TO THE VANISHED, the protagonist, a young Diné man working as a line cook, compares the pain of losing a sibling to ‘dismemberment.’ It’s a precise, if gruesome breakdown of this specific sense of grief that debut author Brendan Shay Basham’s characters explore with a touch of magical realism.” Harper will publish the book on August 22, 2023.
Idra Novey's TAKE WHAT YOU NEED was featured in The New Yorker's briefly noted section, where it was hailed as "[a] delicate meditation on art, family, and ugliness…[and] the difficulties that arise in family life but also on the ways in which such difficulties can't be separated from love." Viking published the book on March 14, 2023.
Madeline Ticknor began her agenting career in 2018 as an intern at Curtis Brown, and soon after began working as an assistant at the Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency where she worked with award-winning authors including Carl Safina, Nancy Springer, Sarai Walker, and Bonnie Kistler, and more. In 2021, she joined Writers House as an agent associate and began building her own list. Authors she worked with at Writers House include Jonathan Franzen, Rachel Kushner, Imbolo Mbue, William T. Vollmann, Tim Murphy, Vauhini Vara, Sanjena Sathian, and many more.