{"id":28388,"date":"2025-09-17T20:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/28388\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T20:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:35:09","slug":"r-f-kuangs-extraordinary-rise-4-more-books-are-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/28388\/","title":{"rendered":"R.F. Kuang\u2019s extraordinary rise: 4 more books are on the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 At age 29, with several novels and millions of copies sold behind her, R.F. Kuang is\u2026<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 At age 29, with several novels and millions of copies sold behind her, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/rf-kuang-interview-katabasis-yellowface-babel-7241675395567d3ad437dc7a2ef532a3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">R.F. Kuang<\/a> is just getting started. <\/p>\n<p>The author of \u201cYellowface\u201d and the current bestseller \u201cKatabasis,\u201d Kuang has an agreement with HarperCollins Publishers for four more books, including a pair of fantasy novels for the imprint Harper Voyager and a pair of \u201cliterary\u201d novels for the William Morrow imprint. <\/p>\n<p>Kuang already has a literary novel in the works, \u201cTaipei Story,\u201d scheduled for next year. And she is a Ph.D student at Yale University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe out of the gate success for Katabasis is a testament to Rebecca\u2019s extraordinary storytelling and her ability to connect with fans,\u201d Liate Stehlik, president and publisher of HarperCollins and HarperCollins Children\u2019s Books, said in a statement released Wednesday. She called Kuang\u2019s upcoming work an \u201cexciting slate of new books.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kuang\u2019s previous novels also include \u201cThe Poppy War,\u201d \u201cThe Dragon Republic\u201d and \u201cBabel, or the Necessity of Violence.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Copyright<br \/>\n                        \u00a9\u00a02025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, written or redistributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 At age 29, with several novels and millions of copies sold behind her, R.F.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[489,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-28388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}