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GOODBYE EARL COVER REVEAL! OUT 7/3/23 FROM GRAND CENTRAL PUBLISHING! PREORDERS OPEN @ YR FAVE BOOKSTORE! X
Four women take fate into their own hands in this big-hearted story of friendship, resilience, and revenge on monstrous men, from the award-winning author of Half-Blown Rose.
Taking inspiration from the infamous, empowering song, Goodbye Earl follows four best friends through two unforgettable summers, fifteen years apart.
In 2004, Rosemarie, Ada, Caroline, and Kasey are in their final days of high school and on the precipice of all the things teenagers look forward to when anything in life seems possible . . . from falling in love, to finding their dream jobs, to becoming who they were meant to be.
In 2019, Kasey has returned to her small Southern hometown of Goldie for the first time since high school—and she still hasn’t told even her closest friends the truth of what really happened that summer after graduation, or what made her leave so abruptly without looking back. Now reunited with her friends in Goldie for a wedding, she’s determined to focus on the simple joy of being together again. But when she notices troubling signs that one of them might be in danger, she is catapulted back to that fateful summer. This time, Kasey refuses to let the worst moments of her past define her; this time, she knows how to protect those she loves at all costs.
Uplifting, sharp-edged, and unapologetic, Goodbye Earl is a funeral for all the “Earls” out there—the abusive men who think they can get away with anything, but are wrong—and a celebration of enduring sisterhood.
HALF-BLOWN ROSE + The American Library in Paris! 2022 Coups de Cœur!
Oh wow v stoked that HALF-BLOWN ROSE received Coups de Cœur recognition from The American Library in Paris!! TYSM to everyone there and my amaze team and my French teacher and and and! x
NEW HALF-BLOWN ROSE PAPERBACK COVER! OUT 4/18/23! I LOVE IT! TYSM to the GRAND CENTRAL ART DEPT! xx
HALF-BLOWN ROSE is one of Amazon's Best Books of the Year So Far! TYSM to Sarah Gelman and Al Woodworth and Amazon Books! x
BOOK SIX ANNOUNCEMENT! GOODBYE EARL COMING SUMMER 2023!
Hi! Official Book Six Announcement! GOODBYE EARL coming SUMMER 2023 from GRAND CENTRAL PUBLISHING! BestFriendship! Summer! Revenge! I've been working on it for 2+ years and I'm SO STOKED to be able to talk abt it bc I LOVE IT SO MUCH! My True Country Heart is GLOWING, y'all!
Author of HALF-BLOWN ROSE and THIS CLOSE TO OKAY Leesa Cross-Smith’s GOODBYE EARL, a big-hearted story of friendship, resilience, and revenge on monstrous men who think they’re untouchable, to Elizabeth Kulhanek at Grand Central, for publication in summer 2023, by Kerry D’Agostino, on behalf of the author, and by Simon Lipskar at Writers House, on behalf of Temple Hill Entertainment.
TYSM B&N! TYSM AMAZON! TYSM NYC! I HEART YOU! xx
HALF-BLOWN ROSE ON A GIANT BILLBOARD IN NYC!!!!
I’m thrilled to share that Half-Blown Rose is an Amazon Books Editors’ Spotlight selection and it is on a billboard in NYC! More deets on the Editors’ Spotlight here!
AND! You can watch my Amazon Live Q&A w Sarah Gelman here too!
