Hey hi hello from my inbox to yours. Thanks for meeting me here in the pixels! It's been a while—I hope your 2023 wrapped up restfully and well and that your 2024 is off to a good start (if not, we'll try again in February, right? January's just a practice month). 

THE SOMEDAY DAUGHTER comes out February 20!

AKA tomorrow. Or at least, that's how it feels to me—like if I blink, launch day will be here.

TSD follows Audrey St. Vrain during the summer before she starts college, as she's forced into the spotlight on a nationwide book tour with her celebrity mother—who became famous for writing a book about her, but who she secretly has a terrible relationship with. As her summer on the road unfolds—and she spends more time with both her mom and the unexpectedly charming tour intern, Silas—Audrey will uncover secrets about her family, and herself, that upset everything she's so carefully planned for her future. 

If that sounds good to you, please preorder! Preorders are the best way to support authors you love.

If that sounds meh to you but you're interested in owning a book with a cute pug on the cover, that's another great reason to preorder. 

If you're just here for the romance (honestly, same), down below is the gorgeous character art of Audrey & Silas that you'll automatically receive when you preorder a signed copy from my independent bookstore, Second Star to the Right. As Sarah Dessen would say, sa-woooon. (Illustrated by Nastya Litepla)

Celebrate with me in person!

I'm so thrilled to be launching The Someday Daughter with my dear friend (and fellow Feb. 20-launch-day author) Jenna Miller.

We'll be at Boulder Bookstore on Friday, Feb. 23 at 6:30pm.

The event is FREE! But you can save your seat with the button below.

Come write with me!

I'll be returning to Denver Writes for a teen workshop on March 2. You can register yourself or your young person here.

I'm also honored to be a part of Lighthouse Writers' inaugural YA Lit Fest. I'll be teaching a 2-hour craft seminar on March 17, dedicated to writing young love (yerrrng lurrrrve, my favorite thing). You can register for the seminar here. 

And one more thing

I'll be at Books Are Awesome in Parker, CO on Sunday, March 3!

This is a casual event, where I'll be posted up at a table with books and swag. No presentation, no conversation partner, no monologuing. It is up to you to ensure I'm not lonely at this event. Yes, YOU! See you there.

Lest you think I've forgotten my first-born in all this excitement...
 

Ro Devereux celebrated her first birthday as a published novel on January 17. It's really an inexplicable experience to dream of something all your life and then have it happen. Unsurprisingly—but somehow surprisingly to me—I did not metamorphose into a glorious monarch butterfly the minute my book came out. I am still me; a caterpillar, if the metaphor holds. Or maybe the point is I'm not an insect at all, but a human person whose life can't be divided into befores and afters. 

I still carry a lot of the things I did before Ro came out: self-doubt, professional longing, creative hunger. In the last year I've picked up several others: habits that serve my creativity, a blazing respect for booksellers, bone-deep gratitude.

I've learned and I'm learning. I never, ever, ever want to stop making books. Thank you, from the squishiest center of my heart, for being a part of all this with me.

On January 23, Seven Percent of Ro Devereux came out in paperback. I am staunchly Team Paperback—if you are, too, you can order a soft lil' flippity floppity Ro Devereux of your very own at the button below.

On January 24, Seven Percent of Ro Devereux came out in Poland. My Polish vocabulary now includes two words: "procent" (percent) and "dziekuje" (thank you). No one deserves a dziekuje as much as my Polish publisher, Young/Kobiece, who has handled this launch with such care—and created a cover SO CUTE it makes me weak in the knees.

My bookshelf
Things I'm reading that you should, too.

Until next time!

Maybe I'll send another newsletter when The Someday Daughter comes out. Maybe I will once again go six months without contacting you. Who can say!! In newsletters, as in so much else, it's all about the element of surprise.