More than any of her classes, or any party she’d ever been to, though in truth she preferred smaller gatherings. This was the most people Rosemary had seen in one place since she was a kid, even in hoodspace. A Song for a New Day is available to pre-order here. You can also read an excerpt below, which opens as Rosemary attends a virtual concert. She’s also a singer/songwriter who has released three albums with independent labels and has a fourth on the way.īerkley will publish A Song for a New Day on September 10th, and we’re thrilled to reveal the cover designed by Jason Booher. Pinsker, who wrote a Nebula Award-winning novelette and has a short story collection coming out in March, is no stranger to the music industry. But when she sees how the world could actually be, that won’t be enough. Find the illegal concerts and bring musicians into the limelight they deserve. The only catch is that she’ll have to do something she’s never done before and go out in public. By lucky chance, she finds a new job and a new calling: discover amazing musicians and bring their concerts to everyone via virtual reality. She spends her days in Hoodspace, helping customers order all of their goods online for drone delivery-no physical contact with humans needed.

Rosemary Laws barely remembers the Before times. She does what she has to do: she performs in illegal concerts to a small but passionate community, always evading the law. Now, in the After, terror attacks and deadly viruses have led the government to ban concerts, and Luce’s connection to the world-her music, her purpose-is closed off forever. One of her songs had just taken off and she was on her way to becoming a star. In the Before, when the government didn’t prohibit large public gatherings, Luce Cannon was on top of the world. But that doesn’t mean music is dead it’s just gone underground: Titled A Song for a New Day, it’s set in a near-future United States where public gatherings-including concerts-are illegal. Dystopian fiction rarely focuses on the music scene, but Sarah Pinsker aims to change that with her debut novel.

A song for a new day by sarah pinsker