Pre-Order & Discount Information

It’s hard to believe Publication Day for Beautiful and Terrible Things is just over a month away. For those of you who like to get ahead of the game, the novel is now available for pre-order on various online retail sites, some with discounts.

Links to those sites are below. Then, keep reading for information on how to get a special author appearance (moi, of course) at your Book Club, and for exciting news about an audiobook version of Beautiful and Terrible Things.

Pre-Order Sites

Beautiful and Terrible Things will be officially published on July 18 but you can pre-order the paperback or ebook now if you want, on these sites:

Discounts

If you pre-order directly from the publisher, Black Rose Writing, use the discount code PREORDER2024 when checking out to save 15% off the list price. Scan this QR code with your phone (or click on the image) to go to the Black Rose Writing online bookstore.

You can save even more if you sign up for the publisher’s Rosevine newsletter. You’ll get 25% off all your Black Rose Writing purchases. Sign up for the newsletter here.

Also, note that the other sites listed above offer discounts of their own sometimes.

Available for Book Clubs

Midwest Book Review gives Beautiful and Terrible Things a thumbs-up for book clubs: “Beautiful & Terrible Things [is ideal for] book club discussions about a range of subjects, from social and political individual growth, to breaking free of individual isolation to enter the wider social arena. It’s highly recommended for diverse audiences interested in how social and political consciousness evolves and how self-analysis influences that process.”

Author Frances Coke calls the novel “a feast for book clubs browsing shelves for strong but palatable doses of stark realism.”

And let’s not forget, it’s a lot of fun to read, with early reviewers comparing the camaraderie of the six friends in the book to the TV show Friends, the movie The Big Chill, and the book A Little Life.

If you’re in a Book Club and you’d like to me to join in on your discussion of Beautiful & Terrible Things, or The Wallace House of Pain novelette for that matter, count me in. Nothing is more fun than sitting with a bunch of people willing to provide candid feedback on your novel! I’ll join by Zoom or, if feasible, in person. Contact me here.

Audiobook Coming

For you audiobook fans, YES – there will be an audiobook version of Beautiful and Terrible Things. My publisher has signed the fabulous Nicole Cash to narrate the book. I couldn’t be happier to have her bring my six friends to life based on her earlier work and her audition for this book.

The audiobook should be released within a few weeks of the paperback and ebook.