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!
17 thoughts on “The countdown begins …”
Woo hoo! The best news! Time for a mini book tour?
Ooo, that would be fun, Brianna. You never know!
I can’t wait! Your books have brought so much joy to me and my daughters (now 14 & 20) – we love them endlessly and read them in our *OWN* Mother-Daughter book clubs!
Thanks, Sally! And what fun that you have your very own MDBCs! 🙂
I’m so excited! I grew up with this series, and I’m thrilled to hear that there’s an epilogue coming! I remember emailing you a few years back asking about the future of the characters (who they ended up with, how their lives went, etc), and also disagreeing with some of the outcomes, but now that I’m older, everything makes sense!
My mom and I also started our own MDBC with some other mothers and daughters for a short period of time a while back!
Thank you so much for creating such amazing books that have been a comfort series for me and that has acted as a hand for me to hold as I grew up! I can’t wait to see what you have in store for us with the epilogue.
Oh Sakinah, I’m so happy you’re looking forward to the epilogue! Many thanks for your warm words about my books. You made my day! 🙂
A boxed set is wonderful — I remember from my time as a children’s book seller how these were prized for gift giving. Here’s to many readers unwrapping and loving the complete series.
Thanks, Laurie! 🙂
I used to DREAM about this – as a girl who grew up with them, i can’t wait 🥹
So happy to fulfill your girlhood dream! 🙂
OH my goodness – i just found this out from a friend and it has made my day. These books, these girls – they are so deeply embedded in my heart and have made me who I am today. My middle school and high school trio of friends loved this series so much we called each other Jess, Em, and Megs (and confused everyone since those nicknames had NOTHING to do with our actual names). Emma Hawthorne is one of the most relevant female characters I’ve met to date and she joins Jo March and Emily Starr as my fictional role models for pursuing my dreams in writing. I read every book in the series so many times I can quote whole chapters, and I’ve spent hours imagining what lay in store for them after that last summer (a wedding for Jess and Darcy? another perfect kiss for Cassidy and Tristan? a second generation book club? Emma’s version of MDBC? I guess I’ll find out…)
I’m heading to college for my second year now, facing real life that is approaching with terrifying speed, and feeling very much like Emma did at the end of MDB-Camp. What a gift to get to revisit Megan, Jess, Becca, Cassidy, and Emma, one last time, and learn what their lives had in store for them.
The world is waiting… and so am I.
And your comment made MY day, Avery! 🙂
where will the new epilogues able to be ordered?
Talia, you can order the new edition of Mother-Daughter Book Camp from any bookstore – the epilogue is at the back. 100 new pages! Enjoy!
I was so excited to read that you’ve written an epilogue, Heather!! I loved reading these books all throughout middle and high school. I’m 25 now so the epilogue comes at a fun time of life for me! Can’t wait to see what happens to all the girls in their adulthood!
I already own the Mother-Daughter Book Camp book as an e-book, and with wanting to read the epilogue, I wasn’t sure whether it will be available as an e-book (on iBooks). Do you know whether the book I purchased will refresh with the epilogue included, or will it be available to buy separately on iBooks? I’m jumping the gun a bit by checking already, but I haven’t been able to find it anywhere yet. The book I currently own (the original version) has refreshed in my e-library to have the new cover, but there’s no epilogue in there and there doesn’t seem to be any other version available to buy.
Hi Narelle — I don’t know for sure if the e-book of the newly-released edition of Mother-Daughter Book Camp will have the epilogue — I assume it will? I doubt it will be attached to your older version, though, despite the book refreshing with the new cover. 🙁 Let me check with my publisher and get back to you, OK?
Thank you! I should also mention that I’m located in Canada – not sure if that makes any difference.