DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT: DEEP VELLUM TO PUBLISH J.K. FRANCO'S LOVE LETTERS APRIL 2027

Deep Vellum is excited to announce the forthcoming publication of Love Letters by J.K. Franko. Love Letters is a formally inventive novel composed of interconnected stories, memoir fragments, criticism, screenplay, and poetry. Across shifting voices and recurring characters, the novel explores how writers, readers, lovers, and strangers attempt, and often fail, to communicate meaningfully with one another.

At once playful and emotionally serious, Love Letters stages an ongoing dialogue between writers, readers, critics, and fictional characters, gradually dissolving the boundaries separating them. The novel asks whether literature is merely language on a page or an attempt by one consciousness to reach another across isolation and time.

Love Letters is slated to be released in April of 2027.

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J.K. Franko is the author of the Talion trilogy (Eye for Eye, Tooth for Tooth, and Life for Life), the standalone thriller Killing Johnny Miracle, and the literary novel Love Letters. His novels have been published in Spanish translation by Grupo Planeta and Penguin Random House Spain. His first Spanish-language novel, Última Navidad en Madrid, is forthcoming from Penguin Random House Spain. A dual United States-Spanish citizen, Franko is founder and editor of Sine Qua Non and writes fiction and criticism exploring authorship, morality, memory, and human connection. He holds a PhD in Literature from the University of Texas at Dallas and lives between Texas and Spain.

Deep Vellum was founded in Dallas, Texas in 2013 by Will Evans. Deep Vellum’s mission is to bring the world into conversation through literature. We publish fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and everything in between—both works in translation and English originals—specializing in books that break the mold across languages, oceans, and hearts.

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