Hi, friend! Thank you for joining me on this virtual coffee date.
Today’s Drink Special: 100 Print ARCs of THANK YOU FOR SHARING!
An ARC (advance reader’s copy) is an uncorrected version of the book that the publisher creates to help generate interest and reviews ahead of a book’s publication. I love ARCs in particular because of that ‘uncorrected’ bit: while they’ve typically been through copy edits and maybe a version of pass pages, there are usually some formatting and/or typographical errors in them that don’t make it into the final version! When you get an ARC, you get this limited edition special thing that gives you a window into the behind-the-scenes of the book’s production. That’s pretty rad, in my opinion.
Anyway, if you want to have a special, limited edition, potentially imperfect version of MY book, enter at the link above. If you don’t win, have no fear, you can always pre-order here or type the title into the search bar of your local indie’s website to buy it from them (highly encouraged hot girl behavior).
Also, this giveaway ends on a date when I may have some other news to share. I hadn’t intended this newsletter to be a hemi-monthly thing, but here we are!
A Biscotti with Your Coffee
Reality TV: I don’t think you can understand me as a person if you haven’t watched the queer season of Are You the One. Speaking of perfect matches, my partner and I are watching Perfect Match on Netflix. It is top-tier juicy reality TV drama. Also the white people on the show keep trying to pair fundamentally incompatible people into couples just because they’re Black. Dom and Colony??? In what world???
Books: Since I have a job again, I’ve been listening to a lot of audiobooks lately. Earlier this week I listened to Act Your Age, Eve Brown (the other two Brown sisters’ books by Talia Hibbert are longtime faves, and I can’t believe it took me this long to get to it) and it was as hilarious, swoony, and steamy as you’d expect from Hibbert. The narrator, Ione Butler, did a superb job capturing her voice. I just finished The No-Show by Beth O’Leary, which is the first of hers I’ve consumed via audio. Even though I could see it coming from a mile away, it still thoroughly wrecked me. I usually save audiobooks to listen to in the car or in lab, but I couldn’t stop once I got home. My partner came up to check on me because he heard me crying multiple times through the last quarter of the book. I calmed down after it ended and then attempted to explain the book to him which resulted in more tears. It ruined my life, I am an utter husk of a person, nothing will ever be the same again, 10/10, everyone should listen.
Mwah,
Rachel Runya Katz