Episode 117: *Special Episode* Exciting 2023 Debuts!
A special episode featuring six exciting women’s fiction debuts from the first half of 2023!
Each of our six authors shares a little about their novel, their inspiration, and their best writing advice.
Our Featured Debut Authors:
Tracey D Buchanan author of Toward the Corner of Mercy and Peace (Bookshop.org / Amazon.com)
Annie Cathryn author of The Friendship Breakup (Bookshop.org / Amazon.com)
D. Liebhart author of House on Fire (Bookshop.org / Amazon.com).
Donna Norman-Carbone author of All That is Sacred (Bookshop.org / Amazon.com)
Neely Tubati-Alexander author of Love Buzz (Bookshop.org / Amazon.com)
Terah Shelton Harris author of One Summer in Savannah (Bookshop.org / Amazon.com)
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Resources Mentioned
Jane Friedman’s newsletter and blog full of publishing and writing advice
WFWA - Women’s Fiction Writers Association
Connect with the authors:
Tracey D Buchanan author of Toward the Corner of Mercy and Peace
Annie Cathryn author of The Friendship Breakup
D. Liebhart author of House on Fire
Remember for Me, a collective tribute to those with dementia and the people who love them.
Donna Norman-Carbone author of All That is Sacred
Neely Tubati-Alexander author of Love Buzz
Terah Shelton Harris author of One Summer in Savannah
Transcript:
** Transcript created using AI (so please forgive the typos!) **
Lainey Cameron
Hi, this is Lainey Cameron. This is a special episode that I think I get the most excited about this episode each season, because we get to introduce you to the most exciting, fabulous, interesting debut authors. And we have six here today, each is going to tell us about their new novels. Let's start with the first three with Ashley in the lead. Go ahead, Ashley,
Ashley Hasty
Hi Lainey, thanks. I'm here with Tracey, Terah and Neely. Congratulations, everyone on your debut novels.
Group
Thank you so much.
Ashley Hasty
Tracey, let's start with you. Tell us about your debut novel.
Tracey D Buchanan
It is set in 1952. In the small western Kentucky town of Paducah, which is where I live. It's about a woman named Mrs. Minerva place, who's a very quirky widow and likes to keep people at arm's length. She has a hobby that she likes to keep a secret also, she goes to the cemetery. And she finds names that interests her. And then she researches them at the library and goes home and writes their stories. And this is the part she likes to keep quiet. These people come to life in her house, and she has conversations with them and talks to them like they're real people. So they become her friend set. And she keeps everybody who's in the real world at arm's length, but a little boy, a little six year old boy moves into her neighborhood. And he and his father decide they want to be her friend for whatever reason, they just like her. And they continue with charming perseverance to make their way into her life. And just when she's starting to let down her resistance to them, a terrible accident occurs. And now she's faced with a lot more than losing your sanity. She has to find out through living and the dead, that it is worth it to forgive. And it's also worth it to let people into your life even when it hurts.
Ashley Hasty
And tell us the title?
Tracey D Buchanan
Toward the Corner of Mercy and Peace.
Ashley Hasty
Thank you. Terah, what about you? Can you tell us a little bit about your debut novel?
Terah Shelton Harris
Absolutely. Thank you so much for having me. My debut novel, One Summer in Savannah, tells the story of Sara Lancaster who's living a quiet life in coastal Maine with her eight year old genius daughter Alana, who came into this world following a terrifying sexual assault. Until one day Sara receives a phone call that her father's ill and that she must return home to Savannah to face the ghost of her past. While she's at home and taking care of her father's bookstore and taking care of him. She is very desperate to protect Alana from the Wyler's to power for family or the man who assaulted her, but have no idea that Alon exists until she accidentally runs into the identical twin brother, Jacob Wyler of the man who attacked her. And as you can imagine, that interaction and so who just recently, Jacob had just recently returned home to try to put his family back together and understand the violent act that devastated his family and Sara's family. Sara doesn't know she can trust Jacob, but she decided to give it a go. And in exchange for his silence, she allows him to spend time with Alana. And as they all began to spend more and more time together, Jacob and Sara are drawn together in unexpected ways. I like to say that one summer in Savannah is a story of love and redemption, as Sara and Jacob discover what it means to forgive.
Ashley Hasty
I'm already intrigued by how different all of these novels are. Neely, how about you? Will you tell us about your debut novel?
Neely Tubati-Alexander
Sure, yes, thank you for having me. And mine is also very different from what we've heard about so far. So, Love Buzz is the story of Serena Khan, who is at a Mardi Gras, Mardi Gras bachelorette party for her estranged cousin. And on the last night of the trip, she needs a guy named Julian and they have this sort of instant serendipitous type of connection. And their interaction is cut short, rather abruptly. And so she doesn't, they don't exchange contact information and don't have a way to be in touch after that. And so she decides after she gets home back to Seattle, that she's going to find the guy from Bourbon Street, she's sort of up ends her life in the quest to find this guy to identify whether it was truly this sort of faded interaction, or if it was, you know, just sort of a fluke. And so it is a romance at heart. But it's very much a journey of living your life for yourself versus for others, and kind of really taking the steps towards living kind of your most authentic self versus living your life for other people. So it's a fun, women's fiction. I hate that genre title, but it's a women's fiction, with strong romantic comedy types of elements.
Ashley Hasty
One of my favorite questions to ask authors is about the inspiration behind the novels that originals spark of an idea that eventually became the novels that we're talking about today. So Neely, I'll start with you, since we just finished hearing about your book. What was your inspiration behind this novel?
Neely Tubati-Alexander
Sure. So I like to say that this book is an homage to one of my favorite movies, Serendipity with Kate Beckinsale and John Cusack. It's a fun Rom Com, I think from the 90s maybe from the early 2000s. I'm not quite sure. But this I've always sort of been interested in this, especially as a romance reader myself of this idea of love at first sight and if it actually exists, you know what that looks like if you have built a life that isn't necessarily prepared for that or ready for that if it were to come to you so you know, you always hear the the saying of write the book that you want to read. And this is very much the type of book that I enjoy reading. Yeah, I think that inspiration mostly is from this idea of whether love at first sight really exists.
Ashley Hasty
I love that movie as well. Terah what about you? What was that original spark that inspired your novel?
Terah Shelton Harris
I actually have two sparks. One Summer in Savannah is inspired by the South Carolina church shooting. When days after that tragic event. The survivors in the victim's family members walked into a courthouse and they forgave the shooter. And in that moment, I realized I don't know anything about forgiveness. Because I assume that forgiveness, that there were acts and crimes and behaviors that were unforgivable. And they taught me the opposite. And so I knew right then that I want to write a book that challenged the readers on the definition of forgiveness, and for them to try to define forgiveness for themselves. The second inspiration stems from the millions of Sara's in the world. While one summer in Savannah is a work of fiction, portions of Sarah's story is not there is a person in this world that lives Sarah's story every day, and who practices the act of forgiveness throughout her life. And so, this novel is inspired by the millions of Saras in the world and to try to raise the awareness of this Arizona world
Ashley Hasty
I got goosebumps at the idea of the shooting and walking in and forgiving. You're right, I agree, I know nothing about forgiveness. That was, that's a whole other level of forgiveness. Yeah. Beautiful subject to explore in a book. And Tracey, what was the inspiration behind your novel?
Tracey D Buchanan
Well, first, I just gotta say, I can't wait to read your books because they sound like great books. And just up my alley. My inspiration started in a strange way, I was asked by our city to write some a series of monologues for a tour that they were going to take through our historic cemetery Oak Grove. And so I was asked to research these people, sort of like my main character, and then bring their stories to life. The people would stand by their their tombstone, and be dressed in period clothing and recite what I'd written. So I had a whole collection. We did this for years and years, and I had about 30 people that I had researched. One day, I was cleaning out my files, and I thought there's got to be something more I can do with this because they aren't having the tours anymore down in the cemetery. So I decided I would try to compile them in style, like, oh, like Spoon River anthology, but my expectations of my writing skills were a little high, and I wasn't able to pull that off. So then I thought, Okay, I'll bring in a narrator visited this woman named Minerva, who was going to tell the stories of all these people and that was what was going to weave it together. But that was beyond my ability. And also Minerva just took over she just was a character that I could not shut down and it became her story. The people who are in the cemetery now illustrate different traits about Minerva expose her past and why she is the way she is,
Ashley Hasty
As debut novelists, I'm really excited to hear the best writing advice that you received to get you to this point because I know there's a lot of authors out there who are not yet published, or maybe they have published a couple of books and just need to be reminded of what it's like to be a debut novelist. So what is the best writing advice you received? Terah can we start with you?
Terah Shelton Harris
Absolutely, to start to develop your own process. When I first started writing, I read all the books and blogs and websites and I took all this advice. And those books and stuff was filled with rules that I call the never ever rules. And one of the never ever rules was never ever edit as you go along. And so I tried to apply that. I thought, okay, they said, just get the book down, just write, and you can go back and you can edit later. And I knew of writers that would put placeholders like insert joke here or insert character description here. And when I tried to do that, I found that my mind would not allow me to move on until I inserted that joke, or insert that character description. And I was miserable when I was writing because it just was not a very fun process for me. And so I was talking to another writer about it. And they just said, you know, develop your own process. You know, read those books, get an inspiration from them, but then see what works for you and see what doesn't work for you. And then take all that together and develop your process and what works for you. And so I like to tell writers develop your own process and don't pay attention to the never, ever rules.
Ashley Hasty
I am so happy to hear you saying that because on the same I edit as I go, I feel like I break all the never ever rules. Yes. I don't know how that permission to develop your own purpose, whatever works for you, Tracey, what is the best advice you received?
Tracey D Buchanan
I've received so much good advice. But probably the best that rings true for me every day is just to persevere. And I've kind of come up with three ways that you can strengthen that perseverance muscle, and one of them is to not regard what you see as setbacks as setbacks. But just as another part of the journey, you know, we're gonna get rejection, we're going to get negative comments. But if you can just take those and use what you can and then move forward with them, you're going to be able to persevere. Another part of pure perseverance, I think is to remember the reasons why you're writing in the first place. If it's not to either bring yourself joy, or to bring others encouragement and joy, you need to come up with a reason why you're even doing it. It's too hard not to have a purpose. It's sort of like what Terah was saying, enjoy it. Enjoy the process, find out what works for you. And then lean into that. And you'll have strengths and witnesses just like everybody else, but lean into those things that you've love. And that's going to help you persevere too.
Ashley Hasty
I love that you actually said, enjoy the process. That's my own mantra because I get so set on that end goal of publishing a book that I stop enjoying the process of writing it and I'm like, why am I doing this if I'm not enjoying 90% of the 99% of this. So I love that you said the exact phrase that is my mantra too.
Neely Tubati-Alexander
The biggest thing that's always stuck with me especially earlier on in the process was that nothing, nothing goes to waste. Meaning the book that goes in the drawer which I know a lot of authors, myself included, have books that have never seen the light of day and at times, especially in the beginning before you get your agent or your first book deal that can feel like wasted time that can cause you to question sort of whether you're built for this the reality is every word you write every minute you take to put towards the craft you're learning you're growing you're you're figuring out what your writing process and style is and it all is beneficial in the long run. And so I would urge people to never look at the words that don't see the light of day or don't get into published material as wasted. And I personally even have gone so far as taking I've stripped that first book for park and have taken lines that I loved and you know sections and apply them in not only love buzz but in my upcoming book as well that's coming out after that so it's never wasted and anytime that you're applying to the craft is time worth spending regardless of what the outcome is of that time.
Ashley Hasty
Yes of course I think we all have written books that have not yet seen the light of day or may never see the light of day and that is sometimes the hardest thing to get past especially as a new writers having that done and knowing that it may just need to be set aside and used as practice or whatever. Thank you guys so much.
Tracey D Buchanan
Do we know when your books are coming out? What are the dates?
Tracey D Buchanan
Terah Shelton Harris
Mine is July 4th.
Neely Tubati-Alexander
Love Buzz is coming out May 2 nd.
Tracey D Buchanan
Okay, mine's coming out June 3.
Ashley Hasty
Excellent. Well, thank you all for joining me. Welcome back Laney
Lainey Cameron
Thanks Ashley and let me introduce, this is Lainey talking again, our next three debut authors. A,lso super exciting, you won't want to miss these novels. I am here with Donna Norman-Carbone, Annie, Cathryn and D Liebhardt. And we're going to talk about each of their books that are also coming in the first half of this year. So let me start with Annie. Annie, your book, The Friendship Breakup. Mom com, super funny. I had a chance to read it. Tell those who haven't had the opportunity yet, a little bit more about your debut novel.
Annie Cathryn
And I just want to thank you so much Lainey for having me. I'm so excited to be here today. My book is considered it was described as bad moms meets Mean Girls and someone I know described it as an escapist romp and wonder who that could be? She may or may not be on this podcast. So it follows Fallon Monroe, she's the main character, and she's a mother and married. And she has one daughter, and she's about to turn 40. And she's looking over her life thinking, what am I doing with my life, and she's having sort of a midlife crisis. She decides she loves chocolate. So she wants to have a side chocolate business. So she goes ahead and starts one. And then her neighborhood mom, friends start ghosting her. And she has no idea why. And it's a painful experience for her. Instead of waiting to be invited to the next event, which doesn't seem like it's going to happen. She throws her own party to win them back. Well, it's a disaster, and she makes everything worse. But in the meantime, she finds this letter. It's a shocking letter that she had discovered 20 years prior. And she thought she lost it. And now she finds it again. And she realizes that this letter is very important. And what's in the letter she has to deal with now, in order to move forward.
Lainey Cameron
And one of the fun things about your book is that I love books that like they make you laugh. But also there's a serious theme underneath this idea of being you know, ghosted by your friends and not understanding what happened like I could relate to just like the emotion of what happens there. Let's talk next D. Liebhardt, because talk about a book that's kind of about how far you'll go from love and people you care about. This one sounds fascinating. I've had a chance to read Annie's but not the other two yet, just because of the timing of when we did this episode, but I'm excited to read it. So why don't you tell us a little bit more about the deep themes and some of the things that this book approaches.
D. Liebhart
The book is about an ICU nurse whose mother asks her to euthanize her father who has dementia. So really what it's about, it's really exploring. Where do you think you would do something? What do you think you would do? And then how would you do it?
Lainey Cameron
I love it. I'm really looking forward to this one. And lets ask Donna next because talk about the gray area and the in between zone. As I understand it, your novel actually reaches into the afterworld, which fascinates me. Tell me a little bit more about this one.
Donna Norman-Carbone
So my book is about five women who forged a bond when they pledged a high school sorority, and just before they go off to college, they make a sacred promise to be forever friends. But in college, they start keeping secrets from one another and telling each other lies. And so they do remain friends through their adult years, but they're distant because of geography, and family and their careers. Until one day the main character Lynn, who is also my narrator, dies in a tragic car accident. And She ascends to a majestic heaven where she's filled with peace. And she's yanked back to somewhere in between, which is what Lanie was talking about when her husband calls out to her. And so from the in between, she watches her family and friends falling apart. She can feel their emotions, she can hear their thoughts, and she realizes she left too many loose ends behind. Through her clever influences from the afterlife. She calls her four friends to a familiar beachside cottage, to remind them of her promise of their promise, and in hopes that they heal their friendship so her friends could help her family heal. But what Lynn hadn't realized is that if they do she has to find a way to let them go. And so my book is told on a nonlinear timeline, and it is filled with memories and lots of 1980s nostalgia.
Lainey Cameron
Love it and when we get to asking you about writing advice, I'm actually fascinated by the the decision to do the nonlinear timeline.
Donna Norman-Carbone
Okay
Lainey Cameron
So my next question is all around the inspiration behind the books. And I'm going to mix up the order a little bit. I'm going to ask D. LIebhardt who's the author of House on Fire, which is that book that deals with the topic of euthanasia and being asked to carry it out? How did that become what you wanted to focus on? And I love this topic with debut novels, because often debut novels like they're the ones that kind of live inside our hearts. And that's why we write the topic. So tell me a little bit more why this topic?
D. Liebhart
So I mean, yeah, they're very much lives in my heart. My father lived with dementia for 10 years. And so it's certainly a lot of the stuff in the book are things that actually happened to my family, you know, situations. And I sometimes when I look at that book, I think the situations that actually happened are the ones that people would not believe happened, and the ones that I made up are the ones that people will go, oh, that's real, you know. So it's very much, you know, reality and fiction, or, you know, two very different things. One of the things that would happen pretty regularly with my mom, who was my dad's caregiver is very often My mom was a very happy, bright, always look on the positive side of things. And very, very occasionally, in that 10 years, my mom would kind of let down our guard and say something like the two things that she said repeatedly were, you know, he didn't deserve this. And if you knew this was going to happen to him, he would have gone out in the backyard and blown his brains out. It was something that got said over and over again. And again, one point just came into my head, well, how would that actually happen? How would you actually do that? What would a family experience if they were really going through that kind of a thing, I don't remember when, but the first line really came to me. And the first line of the book is, you know, my mother asked me to kill my father on Christmas, once that was there. And I knew how the book was going to end I kind of kind of went with it. There's this going back and forth between the fiction and the reality and the fiction and the reality to the degree that there's a couple things in the book, or have to ask my brother, I was like, when did that happen? I've written it so many times. And I've been through it so many times, it feels like it happens, but happened, but I'm not sure that it actually did so very much about, you know, my family's story, but also not my family story. I don't know if that makes sense.
Lainey Cameron
Yeah, it does. It does. And I'm sure readers are gonna have a really emotional reaction to this book as well. Like, you can't write about a topic like that, without readers, really kind of connecting with it, if they've been through that kind of experience, or they're thinking it could be something they can have to address in the future. So I love when a book is so helpful to readers like that.
D. Liebhart
One, I think one of the things that I've had with readers to which I've been really fascinated with is people who are experiencing it say it's the only book they've been able to actually read that has dimension it for some reason that they actually get through it. But a lot of people feel like they can they for some reason, you know, it's more human, I don't know quite what it is.
Lainey Cameron
Interesting. I'm gonna go to Donna here, because talk about a book that I think that I people are going to relate a little to this topic of grief and letting go of your friends. And I think it's very interesting that your book and Annie Cathryn's book also, both deal with friendship, right from different angles and in different ways. And so how did the inspiration for this one come around, Donna?
Donna Norman-Carbone
Years ago a friend of mine asked me to go to a medium because her mother had recently passed and and she was hoping to be read. But instead, I was read. And the message was that I needed to reconnect with my childhood friends, my group of friends. Shortly thereafter, my friend's sister reached out to me and asked me to write something for her two daughters, that she left behind to kind of put a book of memories together, you know, those two experiences kind of ruminated. And I think I really started riding out of a place of grief to just understand and make sense of everything that happened. And then you know, I turned it into this fiction and like de sometimes the fiction and the and the reality gets blurred for me as well. The story is fiction, the characters are fiction, but I do have like some Easter eggs and some odes to various friendships in there. Love it.
Donna Norman-Carbone
And the title of that one is All That is Sacred in case folks are listening along trying to map the books to the authors. All That is Sacred is Donn'as book. Let's go to Annie Catherine. I'm fascinated, also like, so you took that same topic of friendship and treated it like you said, I'm the one who said it was a fun romp this book. It had me laughing so hard. I was actually sick, and I was reading this book, and it had me like falling off the sofa. But why did you decide to approach the topic of you know, friendship and motherhood with humor? And I think it's really interesting that the same reader can want both books at different times. Like if I was dealing with grief, and I was thinking about the grief of losing a friend. I could go one way and read on this book, or I could go the other way and read Annie Cathryn's book and it just depends the mental state you're in at that second in time . So why go down the humor path? Tell us about the inspiration for The Friendship Breakup?
Annie Cathryn
Well, I had been through a ghosting situation, someone just ghosted me out of the blue. I was blindsided. And I had no idea this was happening in my 40s I thought I was past this. I started writing about it. And I thought, if I've been through it, maybe some other people have been through it too. And it's fictional. But so as I was writing it, and I was grieving the friendship, I needed laughter in my life, I needed to be able to look at it through a different lens. And although there are some serious parts of the book, there is some humor. And I think a lot of us turn to humor in order to get through something hard. And that's what I wanted my book to be. For others who had been through a ghosting experience. I didn't know how it would, how it would be received. But I've gotten so many messages from readers saying, Wow, I resonated with this, it was like, You're in my head. It was like you were observing my life. And I was blown away by that I thought it was just kind of making a fictional story about around what I had been through. So that was very heartwarming for me to hear.
Lainey Cameron
I can totally understand that. And there were some scenes in this book that just had me laughing so hard, and including the one where a stripper accidentally turns up to a parent meeting. So Annie, let's start start with you on the writing advice. So what have you learned along this journey of creating publishing your debut novel that you could share with other writers?
Annie Cathryn
I had wrote my book in a vacuum, I hadn't really reached out to other authors. But since then, I've talked to many authors. And there's one thing that surprised me that I thought I just went through. It was there's this part in your writing process, where you think it stinks, you think that what you're writing is terrible. Now, it might not happen to everyone, but it happens to quite a bit of us. I was like, Okay, how do you get through my writing is crap. So this is my advice. I call it the fresh eyes test, or the fresh perspective, test, step away from what you're writing, do something that gives you joy, take a walk, play with your dog, take a bath, read a good book, and then come back with fresh eyes and read what you wrote. Number one, you could say, Wow, this isn't half bad. I don't know what I was thinking before. And it's fine. Number two, you could say it still stinks. But I now have a way to fix it. It's terrible. But no, you are a writer and believe it.
Lainey Cameron
I love I love that. And we all well, I think most writers go through it at some point? I certainly do. I'm working on my second book right now. And I'm sorry to tell you debuts that that sensation of Oh, my goodness is this absolute doctor doesn't go away. Just because you had one successful book, let's go to D Liebhardt you took on a book here which is a big meaty topic. And it's getting, you know, great input from readers. What do you have to advise people about about that kind of challenge and what you've learned?
D. Liebhart
My advice is stolen, I stole it from Jane Friedman. And Jane Friedman, did a blog post or a newsletter post a little while ago that had a line in it that said, and I'm going to read it because it's on my wall, Will you shut down and stop? Or will you grapple with the challenge and grow? So many times as you're going along this process? You come across something where there's just this big challenge, and it's going to be different for everybody? And you're going to have tons of them? And the question always at that moment is are you going to stop? Is this it? Are you going to give up? Or are you going to figure out how to grow and move beyond that?
And I for me, I mean, it was at the very beginning, when I wrote the first novel that I threw away that rightfully should have been thrown away, you know, to look at that and go Wait, I don't think I actually know how to write a book. Now what do I do? And then going through that process, like when you're querying agents, oh, wait, I don't know how to do this. There's going to be challenges every step of the way. And are you going to truly learn and grow and change? Because it's one thing to be like, Oh, this is a terrible process. I don't want to do this. Like that's how I feel about query. But it's like, no, I have to I have to learn if this is what I'm going to do. I have to learn how to do this. And I have to change I have to grow. So I think really being willing to face the challenges that present themselves and be willing to grow and get through them.
Lainey Cameron
Phenomenal advice. And I'll put the link to Jane Friedman's newsletter and website in the show notes on Bestofwomen's fiction.com. I recommend it for anyone who's an up and coming writer or into their career as a writer, her advice and her resources are just fabulous.
D. Liebhart
I took a picture on my wall and sent it to her. I was like, I just wanted you to know this. At that moment. It was the perfect thing for me. Donna, let's let's hear from you. You made this interesting decision to go nonlinear. You also tackled a tricky topic here. What did you learn along the way?
Donna Norman-Carbone
Well, I think in terms of the nonlinear timeline, I really wanted to reach into the part of us that experiences something and doesn't really even realize the lesson of it until later. And so I think that's how I developed the nonlinear timeline. In terms of my writing advice, mine is always to find your community because writing is such a solitary act. And when I first started writing, I really wrote for myself and, you know, had this dream of one day I'm going to publish. But when I actually decided that I wanted to publish, I really didn't have anybody to reach out to to bounce ideas off of to look at my work. So my first exposure to like critique partners, I didn't even know what that was, was on Twitter. And there was a critique partner match. And then my second one was through organised an organization, the WFWA , which has been such a good support for me. And I've really created a community of people that I learned so many things from, find your community.
Lainey Cameron
That was the same for me, WFWA, Women's Fiction Writers Association has been there at every step in terms of other authors stepping up and offering advice and supporting me and I'll put the link. If anyone is a up and coming author, and they're not aware of WFWA, and you're writing women's fiction, this is your call to go check it out. Because that is the most supportive community that will be for you. That will be there for you as you grow as a writer, and that will help you work out what to do at each step. So it has been just a joy to talk with each of you here. And last question, reminders of the title of your book, and when is it available? Donna, I'll start with you.
Donna Norman-Carbone
Alright, so my book is on preorder right now, my Kindle is on the Kindle version is on preorder. My book launches June 6, and it will be available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble Google Play apple and Kobo. And D Liebhardt, what about you?
D. Liebhart
So the book came out March 31. So it's available in all the same locations that Donna was talking about. And I do have a website say it's very similar www.de leaphart.com. I also have a project separate project that I'd love to talk about, which is remember-for-me.com. It's just a collaborative art project where someone can go and post a memory in honor of somebody who had dementia or has dementia. And the idea behind the project is really about recognizing that someone might lose those memories, but you hold them still. And so it's a place where people can go and honor somebody. So that's one of my other projects.
Lainey Cameron
I actually checked it out last week. It's a really beautiful site and poignant. Just a beautiful, beautiful experience that you put together there. Thank you. And Annie, I know your book is out in the world, where can we find you?
Annie Cathryn
You can find The Friendship Breakup anywhere books are sold, and I hang out on Instagram all day long, so you can find me there.
Lainey Cameron
And she has a great Bookstagram account. In fact, I knew Annie as a Bookstagrammer before I knew you as an author, you were sharing phenomenal books and book recommendations on Bookstagram.
Well, thank you so much to all of you. I really appreciate you making time to do this. And I love introducing our listeners to new books, especially new books from new authors. And I'm just gonna say a note of thanks to all six authors who joined us today. All the information is on Bestofwomen's fiction.com. We have an episode page with all the social media for all the authors, the links to the books, the links to every other resource that we talked about today. So thank you so much.