Hello, my friends,
I hope you’re having a great day so far, and that I can sprinkle some more goodness. Monday, the title of my sixth book will go live on retailer sites for preorder. But I just… I feel like… you can figure it out before then? You usually do. Maybe you don’t like sleuthing, but for those of you who do, I’ll give you a couple of clues.
It’s more than two words long.
I’ve already hidden it in a grocery list.
It starts with an adjective.
I really can’t wait to share it with you. If you’ve been reading these letters for awhile now, you know that this book poured out of me, back in the winter/spring after the longest writing break I’d taken in a full decade. You might also have heard me in interviews talk about how hard this book has been since that first draft. (Very.) This book is different than anything I’ve written before but also feels like a really natural extension of what I’ve been doing the last few years. There is, of course, a love story and a vacation and complicated family dynamic and all the things I’ve always found myself drawn toward, but there’s also something else, and I’m both overjoyed and terrified to be able to share it more about it with you so soon (!!!). Including which T. Swift song it most closely correlates to, since I know that some of you will ask. (Another hint: It’s on Folklore.)
Other than that, I just have two other things to tell you about today. First off, the absolutely breathtakingly gorgeous deluxe hardcover edition of Beach Read comes out in less than one month! It hits shelves October 1st, but you can preorder now, wherever books are sold! Developing this with our brilliant designer Sanny Chiu was so special, and the finished product is everything I hoped it would be when we first started dreaming about this a couple of years ago. As a little bonus the extra epilogue I wrote about Gus and January, “Layover,” for all your grocery list subscribers is included in the book. Also here is a pic of me with the book, minus its gorgeous dust jacket to remind you that it has a quote on the front and also to shamelessly plug my fave Rachel Antonoff shirt*. (If you buy it, I will make zero dollars off the transaction, but I do like to think I’ll feel a pleasant shiver run down my spine and just know.* It’s also been available to rent on Nuuly in the past.)
That brings me to my last fun, little thing. In November, Penguin is releasing a box set of my first three books! These will be paperback, like the originals, and if I remember correctly, don’t have any added content or anything. It’s just the three books, in an adorable and on theme box. So if you’ve been waiting to get or gift them, now might be the time!
So that’s all for now. Keep your eyes peeled on the Penguin Random House site on Monday to see the new title and/or to preorder from your fave bookstore, if you so choose! I’ll be able tell you what it’s all about and show you the cover SOON!
With love,
Em
P.S. My fave grocery right now is this. It is absolutely full of sugar.