Boston-area folks! Tomorrow! Would love love love to see you there.
9 Days & 9 Nights
Epic Reads Tour, Spring 2018
Oh hey, book tour was fun.
(5 cities, 6 plane rides, 2 long drives, 4 room service club sandwiches, 1 soak in a questionable hotel hot tub, 1 Season 3 Office rewatch, 2 most amazing tour companions, a gajillion bitmojis, so many wonderful booksellers and librarians and media escorts, a handful of surprise guests, hundreds of incredible readers. Thank you thank you thank you.)
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Already half over, somehow. Catching my breath after an incredible launch + book tour. Celebrating some big wins, mourning a loss or two. Early morning walks with Avon. Starting two brand new projects. Building actual weekends into the schedule for the first time in months. Fancy new office supplies. Tomato plants going in. Cousins coming. My birthday sneaking up. Rewatching Pitch, finally, I think. The new Florence on repeat-one. A super fun event at the end of the month. As much open space as humanly possible. Long drives, bare feet, water with lemon. Setting the tone for the rest of the year.
9 DAYS & 9 NIGHTS is here!
9 DAYS & 9 NIGHTS is out today! I am so excited that frankly you’d think I was the one headed out on a sexy, madcap European vacation.
When we left Molly Barlow at the end of 99 DAYS, she was headed for college in Boston–and away from the humiliation and heartbreak of her complicated relationships with Gabe and Patrick Donnelly. A year later she’s moved on–from both the romantic drama that surrounded her in Star Lake and the unexpected consequences that followed her off to school. She’s on a backpacking trip to Europe with her sweet, bookish new boyfriend Ian when she looks across the Underground platform…
and locks eyes with the one who got away.
I feel really strongly about not writing a sequel unless you’re super sure you’ve got more story to tell, and it was such a treat to check in with Molly again to see what she’d learned–and what she hadn’t–since the events of 99 DAYS. 9 DAYS & 9 NIGHTS is about second chances, tough choices, and deciding what kind of person you want to be when you grow up–and also navigating ancient European plumbing, getting in screaming fights on top of the Eiffel Tower, and eating a metric ton of croissants.
You can pick up 9 DAYS & 9 NIGHTS at your local independent bookstore, at Target (where the special edition contains an exclusive prequel chapter from Gabe’s POV) or wherever books are sold, and while it’s technically the sequel to 99 DAYS, I like to think it holds up just fine on its own. But, I mean, if you’re worried, obviously feel free to buy both.
Happy release day, friends! I am so, so grateful you’re all still here.
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Stickers for each of my books designed by the incredibly talented Megan Roy. Read on for info on how to score a set of your very own.
Garden planting season. National Poetry Month, which always makes me so happy. The FIREWORKS paperback launch. Tour planning (more soon!). Reading a bunch of middle grade books for no reason except there are a bunch of good middle grade books I haven’t read. Brothers and sisters coming to visit. Eating less cheese, sadly. Finally settling into a work-from-home routine, and fully recognizing what a privilege it is to spend all these months thinking about how I work best and adjusting accordingly. The new Kacey Musgraves on my phone. Taking Avon to Castle Island so she can jam her nose into the sand and sneeze and look startled. Throwing a dinner party, I think. Gearing up to release 9 DAYS & 9 NIGHTS out into the world (have you preordered yet? JUST ASKING). Figuring out what this blog looks like now, and making myself at home here one more time. I am so very glad to be back.
As a thank you for sticking with me, I’ve got a whole bunch of these rockin’ stickers to give away! (…GET IT?) Just email me with your name + mailing address and I’ll send you a full set.
More soon. Spring’s here. xox