On January 24, 2020, my youngest daughter texted me this pic. It’s a real flyer, done up by a real person somewhere in Brooklyn, NY. I’ve cut the email address from the pic, as well as the $10,000 “reward” for the perfect match to “protect the innocent.”
I thought it was fabulous, so I posted it up on Facebook. Rachel Kahan, my editor at WilliamMorrow for The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (And Their Muses) said, “Someone needs to write me this book.” So I did, only the Jersey Italian version.
At the time, I’d been working on another book–a fantasy–so this story got put on hold. It nevertheless percolated in the back of my brain, as stories so stubbornly will. I wrote notes periodically. It always started with Vicky, the haunted, antique Victrola. Sylvia, Varina, Donatella formed and reformed. Davide, Dante, Paulie. Them too. The whole, huge, smothering, loving family emerged, one by one by one, until I had something that looked like Moonstruck and My Big Fat Greek Wedding had an illicit affair and produced the Palladino family.
I’ve written three other books in the four years since selling Bar Harbor…etc. So far, none of them were right for that all-important second book. I persevered. I kept writing. Books I love! I was given all kinds of advice about what I should do, but I knew what I wanted. The career I wanted. I was fully prepared for it to never happen! But it has, and now I am taking the next steps on that path.
Is Your Grandfather Single and Looking for Love? will be published by WilliamMorrow (HarperCollins) sometime in the winter/spring of 2023.
I’m excited to work with Rachel again, and with the whole WilliamMorrow team. The experience of publishing Bar Harbor…etc. with them has been the stuff of magic and dreams, and continues to be, three years after initial release.
It’s going to be a fabulous, fast year and a half-ish until the book releases. All the fun, behind the scenes stuff is to come. The anticipation is almost as good as the afterglow. Almost. I know this is a tough business, but–damn, I love it.
Modesty Is For Suckers 
Oh Terri! A thousand congratulations! This is so wonderful!
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Thank you, love!
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Congratulations and wishes for a teremendous success with this one too!
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Thank you!
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Hi. I am glad you are well and writing 🙂 This new book sounds amazing ! I must buy it —-and i will wait. Awesome job woman!
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Thanks, Lise!
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Wooo Hooooo!!
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❤
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Congratulations! I love the topic. This one will end up a movie. Write away!
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“From your lips to God’s ears,” as my mom always says. LOL! Thanks!
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I cannot tell you how much I love this post! Except that I can. I adore it! Because I get it: the need to write what we are compelled to write, knowing full well, not all our stories will ‘fit’ whatever the criteria is. Congratulations & enjoy this time, my dear. You deserve it! xXx
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Thank you, cara mia. And I will enjoy every moment!
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Wonderful news.
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❤ thanks!
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I am so happy and excited for you, Terri! Looking forward to this next release. 🙂
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❤ Thanks, love!
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Woohoo! Congratulations! Can’t wait to read 🙂
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Thanks, Lynn!
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