Author T.C. Boyle Inks Two Book Deal With HarperCollins

Posted on April 15, 2014

Internationally bestselling author T.C. Boyle has inked a new two book deal with HarperCollins. HarperCollins imprint Ecco will publish Boyles next two novels. The first novel is called The Harder They Come and it will be published in March, 2015. Boyle has published twenty-four books of fiction including After the Plague (2001), Drop City (2003), The Inner Circle (2004), Tooth and Claw (2005), The Human Fly (2005), Talk Talk (2006), The Women (2009), Wild Child (2010), When the Killing's Done (2011), San Miguel (2012) and T.C. Boyle Stories II (2013). and has won many awards, including multiple O.Henry Awards, the PEN/Faulkner Prize, the PEN/Malamud Prize, and the Prix M�dicis �tranger. He is the Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California where he has taught since 1978.

Boyle said in a statement, "I am beyond pleased -- delighted, actually -- to have the chance to work with Daniel [Halpern] and his colleagues at Ecco. This is an occasion for my books to reach a new and ever-widening audience, a circumstance that every author, however successful, yearns for. We live for and through our work and hope to bring illumination and entertainment at the deepest and most joyous level to our readers. So look out: here we come."

Daniel Halpern, President and Publisher of Ecco, had this to say about the acquisition, "For forty years now I've admired Tom's work -- and early on published him in my magazine, Antaeus -- so it's with real excitement that I welcome him to Ecco, where we can't wait to expand his already wonderful readership and introduce him to a new generation of readers."

Dr. Boyle's new novel is set in contemporary California. The intense drama explore the relationships and lives of three people: an aging ex-Marine who served in Vietnam, his unstable son and the son's older, increasingly paranoid partner.