Cover Reveal! My First Historical
Hello newsletter friends! You’re getting the very first look at A Gentleman’s Gentleman, out March 11 from Vintage. This is my very first historical romance! You may remember it was previously called Eden’s End when the deal announcement was made years ago, but we ended up changing it. I love this new title, honestly. And hey, look at this cover. LOOK AT IT. I am obsessed with my beautiful boy. I love my gay son!!!!
Head’s up to my UK readers: YOUR version will be titled The Earl Meets His Match. I know! So many titles! Sorry to be so confusing but it’s all the same book. I don’t have a cover for that version yet, but hopefully soon.
Here’s the synopsis:
From the acclaimed author of Chef's Kiss, a groundbreaking trans Regency romance that's both delightfully witty and refreshingly iconoclastic.
The notoriously eccentric Lord Christopher Eden is a “man of unusual make” and even more unusual habits: he prefers to live far from the prying eyes and ears of the ton, and would rather have the comfortable company of his childhood cook and his aged butler than the swarm of servants and hangers-on befitting a man of his station. But Christopher’s pleasant, if occasionally lonely life is upended when he receives word from his lawyers that, according to his late father’s will, he must find a wife by the end of the Season if he intends to keep his family’s fortune and the Eden estate. Christopher cannot imagine a worse fate: as he isn’t attracted to women, his chances of making a wife happy are slim. Furthermore, if his quest to marry has any hope of succeeding, he must move to London posthaste and acquire some more suitable staff. Enter James Harding, Christopher’s new, distractingly handsome—if rigidly traditional—valet. After a rocky start, the two strike up a fragile friendship amid the throes of the London Season . . . a friendship that threatens to shatter under the looming shadow of Christopher’s impending nuptials—and the secrets both men are keeping. With its heady combination of dry wit, slow-burn romance, and a nuanced portrait of trans identity, A Gentleman’s Gentleman stands to transform the historical romance genre as we know it.
I know March 2025 feels like a lifetime away but seriously it will be here before you know it, so the time to support my trans Regency romance is TODAY. Here are some ways you can do that:
Preorder! If you preorder, I will personally come to your house in the rain wearing a soaked linen shirt and declare my undying devotion.
Add the book on StoryGraph or GoodReads so the bookish world can see how smart and attractive you are in your new cutaway coat.
Ask your local library to order it for their collection because librarians hold the keys to the creaky manor house that is all of our hearts. (BTW that’s ISBN 9780593686201 in the US, 9780008716332 in the UK.)
Share this newsletter with any friends you think would dig this book! Seriously, my stuff lives and dies by word of mouth. I need your mouth. Not in a weird way!
Thank you in advance for your support. This book was…a journey (I’ll get into that more as we get closer to its release) and I am so delighted with the outpouring of love it’s already gotten. Let’s keep that going, team!
If you are a book reviewer, bookstagrammer, booktoker, book podcaster, etc., and are interested in reviewing this title, please fill out my publisher’s interest form. Even if you don’t think you have a “big enough” platform, expressing interest is a big boost to me, so don’t be shy!
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