Sarah Pinsker

Listen to "Sarah Pinsker Releases A Song For A New Day" on Spreaker. Singer/songwriter and short fiction writer Sarah Pinsker‘s vision for a futuristic world is eerily realistic and far-too-familiar to the one we live in today: a world filled with fear, violence, and isolation; a world where technology enables us to live our lives at a distance ―to experience without truly engaging. But the thing that continues to endure is a love for music―and the risks we’ll take to keep playing. I’m happy to offer Pinkser’s clever and propulsive debut novel, A SONG FOR A NEW DAY (Berkley Trade Paperback Original; On Sale September 10, 2019) for possible feature consideration this fall. Please let me know if you’d like to receive a copy of the book. A SONG FOR A NEW DAY challenges us to consider our present before we’ve arrived at such a bleak future, and celebrates the healing power of music and its ability to foster the genuine human connection we seek. In a society plagued by random violence, public gatherings are illegal. Concerts are impossible. Human connection is all but lost. Except for those willing to break the law for the love of music… In the Before, public gatherings were commonplace. But in the Now, after terror attacks and a deadly virus have claimed thousands of lives, everyone knows it’s safest to just stay home. The government has banned public gatherings―festivals, concerts, you name it. And the world has adapted to accommodate. But Luce―a musician on the brink of hitting it big when the ban was enacted―finds her connection to the world shrinking before her eyes. Without concerts, her music can’t be heard. So, Luce does what she has to do: she hosts clandestine concerts in remote areas, performing in old warehouses and cramped basements to keep her dream alive. Rosemary Laws barely remembers the Before―and has rarely left her own home in her small rural hometown. She spends her days in Hoodspace, helping customers place online orders for various goods for drone delivery. When Rosemary stumbles into a new job―scouting musicians at illegal concerts, convincing them to sign a contract for their music to be broadcast digitally―she’s forced to leave her safe haven behind, and to experience the old world, the real world, for the first time. Luce’s and Rosemary’s paths cross―and soon, they are both convinced that live music and human connection are worth breaking some rules. Sarah Pinsker’s Nebula and Sturgeon Award-winning short fiction has appeared in Asimov’s, F&SF, as well as numerous other magazines, anthologies, and translation markets. She is a singer/songwriter who has toured behind three albums on various independent labels. Her first collection, Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea, was released in early 2019 by Small Beer Press