FOREVER, INTERRUPTED by Taylor Jenkins Reid is available for pre-order!
Read the book that everyone is talking about:
“Taylor Jenkins Reid has written a poignant and heartfelt exploration of love and commitment in the absence of shared time that asks, what does it take to be the love of someone’s life?” Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus New York Times bestselling authors
“Sweet, heartfelt, and surprising, Forever Interrupted is a story about a young woman struggling to find her way after losing her husband. These characters made me laugh as well as cry, and I ended up falling in love with them, too.” Sarah Pekkanen author of The Best of Us
“This beautifully rendered story explores the brilliance and rarity of finding true love, and how to find our way back through the painful aftermath of losing it. These characters will leap right off the page and into your heart.” Amy Hatvany author of Heart Like Mine
FOREVER, INTERRUPTED by Taylor Jenkins Reid
This heartrending debut novel weaves a beautiful love story with an homage to the redemptive power of female friendship.
Elsie and Ben are average twenty-somethings, but this is not your average love story. It begins bright and promising: the newlywed couple is head over heels in love, having eloped six months after they met. But it all shatters in an instant; Ben out riding his bike, is hit by a truck—and dies on impact.
Elsie hears the sirens outside her apartment, but by the time she gets downstairs, his body has already been taken to the hospital. When she arrives, Elsie is greeted by an unexpected visitor—her mother-in-law, Susan, whom she has never met and who doesn’t even know she exists.
Both are seared with grief; Susan is still mourning the death of her own husband several years earlier, and the loss of her only son is almost too much to bear. The two women immediately sour on one another, fighting over what to do with Ben’s belongings and how to fulfill his wishes. But as time goes by, Susan and Elsie both realize that despite the terrible accident that brought them together, they are now the only family they have left.
Interweaving Elsie and Ben’s charmed romance with Elsie and Susan’s healing process, Forever, Interrupted will make you laugh, make you cry, and remind you that there’s more than one way to live happily ever after.
Whoa, love the new look of your blog! And FOREVER, INTERRUPTED sounds breathtaking. May be one of the few adult books I make the effort to read this year :)
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Please do! :)
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Can’t wait to read this- congratulations to you both!
Question(s) for you – Why are pre-orders important – how do they help authors? I am learning about the tricks and practices to help increase readership and sales (e.g., as you discuss in this post: https://carlywatters.com/2013/03/11/how-to-support-writers-and-build-a-writing-community/) and am wondering just how important you feel pre-orders are in the larger scheme of things… Thanks!
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Great question.
The best seller list is a weekly best of the best. In order for a book to get on the best sellers list it has to beat other books in that same week. In order to be #1 you have to sell more books than anyone else in a given week.
So pre-orders count towards the first week the book is released because it technically isn’t on sale before that. Loading up the pre-orders can help immensely and can make the difference for authors as to whether they hit the best seller list or not.
Please pre-order if you are interested in a book. It’s a big help to the author.
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Excellent – thanks for the explanation! I will pre-order now!
@reidright19
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