Wild About You COVER REVEAL!

+ other bits of October news 🍁

Hi there! Hope you’re having a fantastic week! I don’t have a whole lot to share today, as I’m mainly here to finally show you the cover of my next YA romance, WILD ABOUT YOU! So without further ado…

EEEEEE I AM OBSESSED!!!!! 😍💘🥳🥳🥳 This beauty was designed by Angela Carlino, illustrated by Ana Hard (the illustrator of the Love from Scratch cover!) and I could not be more thrilled with their work!!! We wanted vintage national park poster vibes, which Ana absolutely delivered, and I love sooo many of the little details—Natalie’s hair! The lil go-pro camera! Smoky Mountains scenery! THEIR HANDS!! Okay I’ll stop naming all the things you can already see with your own eyes. Instead, have this (slightly updated) book description!

Two total opposites. One race through the Great Outdoors. In this grumpy-sunshine teen romance from the author of Love from Scratch and Not Here to Stay Friends, the trail to true love doesn't always come with a map.

Natalie Hart has always been loud, unfiltered, and unapologetically herself. But then comes her freshman year of college, when she loses her merit scholarship and gains one pesky little anxiety diagnosis.

Hesitant to take out more student loans, Natalie decides to shoot her shot and applies to Wild Adventures, a popular outdoorsy reality show. Sure, Natalie prefers her twelve-step skincare routine to roughing it on the Appalachian Trail while competing in challenges against other college kids, but that scholarship prize money is calling her name. High risk, high reward, right?

Enter Finn Markum, her randomly assigned, capital-O Outdoorsy teammate whose growl could rival a black bear. These partners have more friction than a pair of new hiking boots. Or is it flirtation? Turns out falling in love might be the wildest adventure of all...

The trail! To true love! Doesn’t always come with a map!!!!! 🥹🥹🥹

If you like the sound of this one, it would make me so so happy and grateful if you considered pre-ordering! Pre-orders show publishers how excited readers are for a book, and generally help the author’s career and future a whole lot.

If pre-ordering isn’t an option for you, I also SO appreciate requests that your library order a copy, or just help spreading the word about this book as we get closer to its release! Which, as a reminder, is May 21, 2024! Feels far away right now, but I’m going to blink and it’ll be a week until pub day and I’ll wonder where the last seven months of my life went, get moody about the passage of time, but it’ll be okay because I’ll be sooo excited to finally share my new book with the world.

My only other reminder for this month is that I’ll be at the Kentucky Book Festival next Saturday, 10/21 at Joseph-Beth in Lexington! I’m signing both my books at my table allll day long and I hope to see you there! Find out more info about the festival here.

Hope you enjoyed this short + sweet update and love the Wild About You cover as much as I dooo! Feel free to show it to everyone you know, make it your phone background, tattoo it on your face—I’ve done at least 2/3 of these but I won’t say which 2 🌝

See you next month!

xoxo,

Kaitlyn

me looking at my new book cover