Influx Press founders step back and announce hiatus after signing second Everett novel

Influx Press has scooped Dr No, a new novel by Booker-shortlisted author Percival Everett and announced an indefinite hiatus on acquisitions after 2023.

Publisher Kit Caless acquired UK rights for Dr No from Graywolf Press, for release in March 2023. 

"Dr No is another masterwork from Everett, whose literary purple patch sees no sign of stopping," the publisher has said. "A satirical caper of supervillains, farce and pastiche, with a philosophical enquiry into the meaning of nothing, Dr No is also a commentary on race and power in the US." 

In 2023 Influx will also be publishing more of Everett’s backlist including Assumption, the Pulitzer-nominated Telephone, and So Much Blue. Everett was shortlisted for the Booker Prize this year with The Trees (Influx Press).

The Everett titles are part of a scaled back publishing programme for Influx as a planned acquisitions hiatus comes into effect from November 2022. Founder Gary Budden and Caless have decided, after 10 years, to take a step back from publishing to pursue other life and professional goals, and will not be acquiring new titles for the foreseeable future. The press will remain a publishing house with current and backlist titles kept in print.

Everett said: “It has been and remains a great pleasure to be published by Influx. The folks at Influx are interested in art and politics in equal measures and as necessarily and inextricably bound together. Their aesthetic pleases and I feel I am in good company.”

Caless added: “I’d be insane not to continue publishing Percival’s work.”