while we were dating by jasmine guillory

“My mind felt frozen, anxious, terrified. “I warned my agent that there was no way I’d be able to turn in the book I was contracted to deliver in 2020,” Guillory wrote recently. It’s always a happy day when a new Jasmine Guillory book hits the shelves, and it’s nice to hear that While We Were Dating brought joy to the author as well. “ For Colored Girls on the Train When Suicide Isn’t Enough.” For instance, one of Eva’s co-panelists at the aforementioned State of the Black Author session laments that publishers often expect her to write about “trauma, oppression, or slavery, because those are easily marketable Black tropes.” “Imagine if one of us tried to get Girl on the Train published,” Eva responds. Seven Days in June has some serious and even heartbreaking moments, but there’s a good deal of humor, too Williams seems to be having a marvelous time sending up the publishing industry, which presumably she’s learned about from the inside as the author of several previous books. What happened between Shane and Eva, and why haven’t the paths of these two well-known authors crossed in a decade and a half? In flashbacks, we get to know them as high school seniors, and learn about the fateful week in June in which they fell in love and then parted. Unlike Eva, who has to keep posting content to Facebook and Twitter in order to satisfy her fan base, Shane is a man of mystery: “Every five years or so he’d drop a book give a few choppy, unrevealing interviews sulk through an MSNBC segment… and then disappear again.” When Shane unexpectedly turns up in the audience at a Brooklyn panel discussion on The State of the Black Author, the crowd goes wild, and Eva, who is sitting on the dais, is stunned. Eva wants to write something different, but as a single mother raising a daughter in Brooklyn, she relies on the steady income her series provides.Įva’s long-lost love, Shane Hall, is a successful author of literary fiction. Eva’s next book is due any day now, as her editor keeps reminding her, but she’s gotten to the point where “she wanted to strangle Sebastian and Gia,” the couple whose long-running relationship is at the heart of the books.

This novel has a very fun concept: Eva Mercy is the author of a best-selling supernatural series which seems kind of like what you’d get if you crossed Twilight with Fifty Shades of Grey. Reese Witherspoon chose Tia Williams’ Seven Days in June as her book club pick for, you guessed it, June.

While we were dating by jasmine guillory