I was thrilled to discover THE EXPERT OF SUBTLE REVISIONS on NPR’s 2025 Books We Love, where it was tagged as a Book Club Idea, Rather Short, Historical Fiction, Mysteries & Thriller, and Tales From Around the World. Writer and critic Ilana Masad (whose novel Beings just came out this fall) writes: “History, Hase knows from the hours she spends revising Wikipedia entries, can look different depending on who’s telling it and how, but she never imagined that knowledge applying to her own story.”
I also discovered the novel listed among 10 Time Travel Books You Can’t Miss (2024–2025), and I created my own year in review video to document some of the highlights. The soundtrack features Critics Darling’s “Higher Rabbit,” inspired by the novel and very wonderful:
I’m wrapping up 2025 with gratitude to the many people who supported me this year while I was launching The Expert of Subtle Revisions. Thank you for reading the book, for buying the book, for checking it out from the library (I just learned it was a top check out from the Mechanics’ Institute Library this year!) for sharing it with friends and online, for showing up at events, for your kind notes, your kind reviews, your attention. My year-in-review features moments I photographed–the book launch at Bookshop West Portal with Lilian Van Cleve, Book Passage with Allison Bainbridge, Symposium Books with Tanya Young, That was Then at Page Street, a New York City book store tour with Meredith Davis, a Boston book store tour with Daphne Kalotay, Sebastopol LitCrawl, and Kepler’s Story is the Thing–but many important moments have no image to accompany them. They will always remain with me as well. Thank you!