UNTIL DEATH Is Out TODAY!
Buy it, for gods' sake!
Hello friends,
I mostly try to give you reasons to open this newsletter that are not Buy my book. Not today, though! Today, BUY MY BOOK!!!!
Also, while you’re at it, come see me on tour.
OK, fine. I will tell you one little tiny story about the book. TINY, because I don’t want to distract you from buying it. The story is this.
Two summers ago, in July-ish of 2024, I was revising the book (and frankly killing myself in the process) because I wanted to bring the full manuscript to Bread Loaf. I had written and queried and trunked four novels before this one, blah blah blah blah blah, and obviously I was more or less braced for this one to go the way of its ancestors.
But.
I remember lying in bed, close to midnight. Staring at the ceiling above me in the dark. I was thinking about the book, the edits I had done, the edits I had yet to do. But instead of anxiety or dread, I was feeling a rising, bubbling feeling in my chest. It was not unlike what I would call… jubilation.
I was still in the middle of the edits. Still experiencing neck pain and a terrible eyelid twitch. Still months away from Bread Loaf, let alone an agent, let alone a book deal. But I said out loud to my partner, “Hey.”
He stirred. “What?”
And I said, “I think this one’s a banger.”
I was right.
“Say Yes to the Dress meets Rosemary’s Baby“ in this “perfectly disorienting and disarmingly funny” horror debut, in which a woman finally agrees to marry the man of her mother’s dreams... only to discover that wedding planning will eat you alive (Margie Sarsfield, author of Beta Vulgaris).
If Ophelia Cohen learned one thing from her parents, it’s that getting married is a bad idea. But if she’s learning anything from her widowed mother’s dementia, it’s that dying alone is worse. So when she meets Luke — the man of her mother’s dreams — marriage suddenly doesn’t seem so crazy.
But none of Ophelia’s obsessive scrolling on wedding forums can prepare her for the nightmare of planning her own. Why is her mother-in-law going crazy over every detail? Why is Luke’s family so eager to host the wedding in their vineyard’s ancient chapel? And what exactly will Ophelia have to sacrifice if she and her mother both hope to survive her special day?
Shot through with wicked humor, pitch-black horror, and unexpected romance, Until Death is a deliciously dark and funny send-up of the wedding industrial complex — and a mother-daughter story unlike any you’ve read before.
HAPPY PUB DAY!!!
So happy for you!