The countdown begins …

Rev your engines, readers!

Summer may be in full swing, but September 8th is just around the corner. Only two months to go until the final three titles in my Mother-Daughter Book Club series are released, featuring all-new covers…

 

… AND (drumroll, please) an epilogue!

 

 

It’s not a scrawny epilogue, either.

If you haven’t noticed yet, brevity is not the soul of Heather Vogel Frederick. I pulled out all the stops for this one. There are nearly one hundred additional pages brimming with everything you love about the mother-daughter book club! Appended to the last book in the series, Mother-Daughter Book Camp, the epilogue delivers a total of five full chapters, one for each of the book club girls (women, now, actually–it’s a decade after their last summer together, and they’re all grown up). Emma, Jess, Cassidy, Megan, and Becca each get one last star turn, one last moment in the sun, as we learn about their lives since we left them on the brink of adulthood, ready to spread their wings for college and the wide world beyond. Are there surprises? You bet. Romance? Of course! Drama? Naturally. Family, friendship, and fun? I wouldn’t have it otherwise. And there’s also what I hope is the best ending ever….

You can pre-order these three titles now from your favorite bookseller (the first four are already available). As always, the books will be published in both hardcover and paperback, and as e-books. PLUS, I just found out that there’s a boxed set of the paperbacks coming this fall, too.

September 8th can’t come soon enough for me!

 

 

Exciting news!

The Mother-Daughter Book Club

I have some exciting news—my wonderful publisher, Simon & Schuster, is re-releasing all seven books in the Mother-Daughter Book Club series with brand new covers!

Book #1 in The Mother-Daughter Book Club series – with new cover art by Filipa Namorado!
Book #2 in The Mother-Daughter Book Club series – with new cover art by Filipa Namorado!

The new cover artwork is SO fresh and fun—and amazingly, the talented artist, Filipa Namorado, lives here in Portugal, just a couple of hours from where I live.

You can’t make this up. Right here in Portugal? Seriously?

But wait, there’s more…

Included in the final book in the series, Mother-Daughter Book Camp, will be an all-new epilogue, which I just finished writing! For some time now, eager readers have been writing to me, asking to know what happens to all of the girls. What careers do they choose? Where do they live? Do they marry and have children? Please please please could I give them a glimpse of their futures?

Wish granted!

No spoilers here, but I will tell you that the epilogue, which includes five full chapters (one each for Emma, Jess, Cassidy, Megan, and Becca), is set in Concord (of course), and finds the book club and their friends and families celebrating a baby shower. Whose? I’m not telling! You’ll have to read it to find out….

The first two books in the series, The Mother-Daughter Book Club and Much Ado About Anne, will be released in December 2025. The second two, Dear Pen Pal and Pies & Prejudice, will be released in May 2026. And the final three, Wish You Were Eyre, Home for the Holidays, and Mother-Daughter Book Camp, will be released in August 2026.

I can’t wait!

Come write with me!

Home for the Holidays

What are you doing this Sunday? Want to write in the company of kindred spirits? Come join me online from 1:00-3:00 pm, Central Standard Time (U.S.), for this month’s Betsy Tacy Society Drop-In Writers’ Lounge.

I’ll be giving us all a brief pep talk, and then we will have dedicated time to work on our individual projects. 

Although I was a latecomer to the Betsy Tacy books, as many of you know, they’re dear to my heart. In fact, in Home for the Holidays, I had my fictional book club dive into the series—something I like to do myself from time to time for inspiration. Maud Hart Lovelace is a wonderful writer, and her books deserve to be cherished by a wide audience. If you aren’t familiar with them, treat yourself and add them to your bookshelf!

You can find more information about Sunday’s event and pre-register here.

Hope to see you there!