Hello, dear readers,
We’re only THREE WEEKS OUT from the release of Great Big Beautiful Life, and to celebrate that, I’m officially announcing the Great Big Beautiful Release Parties! I loved seeing all of your pictures and videos from these parties so much last year and am thrilled how many stores got on board to do it all again.
If you’re in the U.S. or Canada, you can find the release parties closest to you here!
As with last year, we’ve sent out some games, prizes, and surprises to the stores and lots of them have cooked up their own plans too. Reminder that some of these parties are midnight release parties on the night of April 21st, with books sold at midnight, while others are daytime parties on the 22nd and throughout the week.
This time we’re also teaming up with Pinkberry and Jeni’s (!!!!!) to send swirls and street streets to select stores for partygoers (while supplies last).
And last but not least, the first bits of merch from Out of Print’s Great Big Beautiful Life line will also be popping up at select stores that night so keep your 👀s 👀ed.
While I’m very excited for all the surprises, treats, and sneak peeks we’re sending your way, the best thing to me about these parties is that it gives readers the chance to make friends and find community. It was so beautiful hearing from you all about the connections you made at last year’s parties and I hope that this year can be just as special. I’m so honored to get to share this book with you soon, and so grateful for the kind, generous, funny, cool community that you all have created here, and that I get to be a small part of it.
That’s all for now, but rest assured, there will be more soon.
xo,
Emily
P.S. My grocery of the moment is Fever Tree Ginger Beer.
P.S.S. I’m currently reading The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch, about to read God of the Woods by Liz Moore, and recently read Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory (I LOVED this! My favorite of hers yet).