TIME’S 50 BEST: JQ is both honored and thrilled to be included among “TIME Magazine’s 50 Best Romance Novels to Read Right Now.” Don’t miss the full list, or “How We Chose the 50 Best Romance Novels,” in which the editors explain why they felt the need for the list in the first place, allowing for the obvious: that romance novels have “never felt so needed, or enjoyed such mainstream celebration, as they have over the past few years.”
Also featured: “Romance Novels Are Literature” in which author Casey McQuiston points out how “romance holds a mirror to our wants and needs,” and “even at its cheekiest or darkest or most satirical, it’s a genre made of sincerity.”
ADVOCACY: JQ is proud to serve as an Ambassador for Every Library and is donating her speaking fees for her upcoming engagements in both Kansas City (at Romance GenreCon) and in Cleveland (at the Cuyahoga County Public Library) to this fantastic organization that “helps public, school, and college libraries win funding at the ballot box.” Please consider signing her petition to help fight book bans in the United States. Thank you.
SEPTEMBER EVENTS: On Sept 12, JQ will be welcoming Jodi Picoult to the Seattle area for a discussion of Picoult’s newest novel By Any Other Name.
JQ’s Sept 17 event — the aforementioned Cleveland event — will be offered both in-person and livestream! Both kinds of tickets will go on sale on Aug 20 and the event web page has very clear info about tickets in the Single Event Tickets section. This is your chance to see a JQ event no matter where you live!
But even if you can’t go to a JQ event in person, you can still get your book signed by JQ. Click on this link, or any of the AUTOGRAPHED BY THE AUTHOR sticker graphics on juliaquinn.com to get started.
It’s official! The Bridgerton sibling to fall in love during Netflix’s next season of BRIDGERTON will be none other than An Offer from a Gentleman‘s leading man: Benedict! Have you seen the official announcement? But what’s with this masquerade? And Tudum makes mention of the Lady in Silver…
If you haven’t read his story, then you don’t yet know about the masquerade (and the the Lady in Silver) that changes his life. Get a little glimpse into what’s to come through the eyes of Sophie, the woman who captures his heart in the Prologue and Chapter One.
An Offer from a Gentleman is available in print (trade, hardback, mass market), digital (ebook and audio), and of course, autographed! It’s also included in various special editions and collections.
The second in JQ’s Bridgerton series lands on TIME Magazine’s “50 Best Romance Novels to Read Right Now,” a refreshingly well-researched collection of books (as opposed to what might seem like a list of safely called-out bestsellers).
Chaitna Deshmukh talks to Julia Quinn about her partnership with the University Book Store in Seattle, where she lives.
“In some ways, portraying a healthy relationship in literature is the most revolutionary
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—Julia Quinn