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- 21 December, 2024
- Emily Kimelman
To the winter solstice!
This marks the end of the descent into darkness and the return of light. We have a Christmas tree twinkling in our living room and will light our Hanukkah candles starting on the 26th.
No matter how you’re celebrating this holiday season, I hope it is a joyful time for you with good friends, family, food, and of course, books. Finding time to read during the holidays can be hard—finding time for ourselves at all can be a challenge if we’re hosting.
I have cleared the decks this year so that I can spend any moment not wrapping gifts, planning feasts, and attending holiday events reading a book next to my fireplace.
This past week I did a big push to finish the first draft of Lone Spy, Starstruck Thrillers Book 2. It is currently with my beta reader and very dear friend, Mette. We will reconvene to discuss it in 2025 when she returns from her holiday travels.
My first drafts are very close to my final drafts and rarely does it take more than a few days after Mette’s notes to get it off to my copy editor. There are several more edit rounds after that, but the heavy lifting for Lone Spy is done.
It was kind of a doozy. 😂 For those of you who have read A Spy Is Born, you’ll understand why my father—who is one of my editors and a retired journalist—said that before Trump was elected he would have dinged me for it being too far fetched. But the world has done what it always seems to do and become stranger than fiction.
I started writing Lone Spy in the spring, so I worked on it over the summer and through the thick of the election season. The amount of research I did about Project 2025 and our legal system, teasing apart how our rights actually exist and how our nation can be transformed, was intense and…scary. 😬
Lone Spy is scary. The whole thing has a tension to it that I think most of my readers will recognize. A sense of being swept along in something bigger than you, which you have little control over, but are also responsible for and deeply affected by. Ugh. 😂
If you have not started the Starstruck Thrillers, now is an excellent time to read A Spy Is Born. Sometimes we need a reminder that we are not alone in our experiences, not without allies, and not without power. Even when we are being dragged in the wrong direction.
A Spy Is Born: emilykimelman.com/SB
Lone Spy: emilykimelman.com/LS
Hope your holidays are filled with lots of reading time...
Emily
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Due to the holiday rush, paperback orders are currently estimating a one month delivery for the US.
For Australian readers, we are seeing shipping times averaging at least 3 months–we have no idea why, it’s an issue with the AU printers. Canadians, we are, of course, experiencing delivery delays due to the postal strike.
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P.S. If you need a last minute gift for a friend who shares your rage, heartache, and enjoyment of reading, I humbly suggest a gift card to my bookstore. You can print it out and put it under the tree. Share the gift of catharsis this year. 😉 emilykimelman.com/GiftCard
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☕️ If you’ve read all the Sydney Rye Mysteries and Starstruck Thrillers THANK YOU.
The best way to reward yourself for all of that reading is with your very own mug, tote, or wine tumbler with quotes from the books, check out my exclusive merchandise:
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