August

Friends, I hope you’ve been having a lovely August. Last week, my daughter and I were on the West Coast visiting my folks, and we ate delicious Korean food and I bought a house dress for $3.50 (Canadian!). Plus, I weeded and pruned my parents’ garden and took a stab at reorganizing their house. (A shallow and largely unsuccessful stab—barely broke a blood vessel.) I also re-read Ilona Andrews’ The Inheritance and Sherry Thomas’s The Burning Sky on the plane, and it turns out disaster fantasy where things end up okay is my jam.

Speaking of fantasy with a hopeful ending, have you pre-ordered The Glowing Life of Leeann Wu? I sure would appreciate it if you did. It’s out November 18 in print (paper and hardcover), ebook, and audio (narrated by Natalie Naudus).

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Watercolor blue and white washed background, Leeann Wu cover on the left (dark blue with a darker open palm hand and gold sparks, title and author name in gold), text on right side: ""Clever and deep and slyly funny, Mindy Hung's The Glowing Life of Leeann Wu is a book that both challenges you firmly and embraces you warmly... a story about the soft and oft-misunderstood power that is most overlooked in our world today, a story about truly looking at and loving ourselves at even the most fraught and confusing stages of our lives. I loved it." - Kate Clayborn, author of The Other Side of Disappearing — I feel lucky to know Kate, honestly.

Hey, did you know my friend Jillian David has a new book out? Five-Alarm Love is a medical romance (and Jillian’s a physician in real life), and it features childhood friends to lovers in a gorgeous, rugged Alaska setting. You can find it here: https://books2read.com/FiveAlarmLove

This month’s backlist feature is the final title in my Uptown series, House Rules. This one features 40-somethings Lana and Simon, who are long divorced from each other, and who end up moving in together once again because the rent in New York City is too damn high.

Lana has had to learn to stand up for herself, and Simon is very stuck in his ways. I know some readers are annoyed by Simon’s recalcitrance, but to be perfectly real, I am sort of a Simon. They also end up adopting an asshole cat named Muffin (who adorns the cover of The Uptown Collection because she is clearly the most important character in the series).

House Rules is available as an ebook, in audio (narrated by the amazing Emily Woo Zeller) and in print as part of The Uptown Collection.

Wishing you all an amazing end of the month! Talk to you again in September!

Ruby/Opal/Mindy

Aug. 25, 2025, 12:45 p.m.

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