Hello! Happy fall!
It’s my favorite season - probably because I’m a Virgo, which means fall is my birthday season! I had some truly wonderful celebrations and two BEYOND excellent cakes. I mean. Just look:
I love celebrating things, and I love moments that let you take stock of just how lucky you are. That’s how I felt during my festivities - incredibly lucky, so grateful, and beyond excited for what the upcoming year might bring.
And one thing it’ll bring (see what I did there?) is NEW BOOKS!!
Promchanted comes out March 5th, 2024 - available for pre-order now!
And then the book I’ve been calling MM7 comes out two months and two days later, on May 7th, 2024.
Title and pre-order info coming SOON! I PROMISE!
Basically, I’m waiting until you can pre-order the book to tell you alllllll about it. And hopefully that will be soon! Like in a few days soon!!
I can’t wait to share this with you. I love these characters and this story.
And even though I’m excited to get the news out…I also just love this moment right now. When I google the title, nothing comes up. My publisher and agent and the good people at S&S know about it, of course. But right now, in the liminal space between, it’s like I’m holding onto a secret. And in very short order, it will be a thing, out in the world.
…but not YET.
In the meantime, I’m embracing fall by reading mysteries1 and buying sweaters2 and occasionally switching to hot lattes as I count down the days to 1989 (Taylor’s Version3). I’ve revamped my office, and gotten a new ergonomic mouse, and am looking forward to a super-productive fall, filled with new stories.
More soon!
xoxo
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The Thursday Murder Club series, by Richard Osman, is one of the true gifts of the last few years. Do you like humor and joy and characters you adore so much you want to scoop them off the page? This series is for you. The newest, The Last Devil to Die, came out ON MY BIRTHDAY, which felt like a special present just for me.
(Also FOOTNOTES?? Should I do them in this newsletter?? I love them and they existed in Take Me Home Tonight for the first couple drafts - but just in Stevie’s perspective - until we decided there was already QUITE ENOUGH going on in the book and cut them out. But maybe this newsletter is the place for it? HMMM.)
Abercrombie, of all things, has become a great place to shop in the last few years? My fave two most recent cuddly sweaters are from them.
Have you guys heard the theory that it actually might be TWO albums? I have no idea, but I love it all.
If it's two albums, it will be like a Midnights release, with the second half dropping the day of. Right? RIGHT?!
i’ve heard the theory that’s it’s THREE albums!! see: shania twain’s Up! in red, green, and blue!