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Dear Readers, We hope you had a happy, safe Halloween! This is your monthly Deep Vellum Newsletter , with forthcoming titles, author tours, and all things going on across our imprints. It's hard to believe how fast this year has gone by, and we are so excited to share with you our final titles of 2026. From A Strange Object , 12/1 will see This Vital Absence , the debut novel from Sophia Veltfort , a subtle psychological examination of a woman looking for her father, an anonymous sperm donor. Written in the tradition of Patricia Highsmith , the novel has already received praise from Michael Cunningham , Emily Fridlund , and J. Robert Lennon . And from Deep Vellum , we'll have a brilliant collection of poetry from returning author S. Yarberry , entitled The Robert Poems -- a speculative poetic history reimagining Robert Blake, the brother of the poet William Blake, as a trans man in the eighteenth century. As poet CA Conrad has written, " The Robert Poems is great new...
