Last week, the paperback edition of Everyone Knows How Much I Love You was released, and I couldn’t be more pleased.
It’s pretty, it’s cheap, and it’s ready to go to the beach. (Or the mountains, or the backyard, or …)
If you’ve been wanting to read Everyone Knows, or give a friend a copy, this snazzy new paperback is your chance! And if you liked the book, and still want to help spread the word - well, gosh, thank you. Here, adapted from the lovely Briallen Hopper, are ways to support the books in your life:
Ways to Show a Book You Love It
Tell your friends about it.
Effuse about it on social media.
Take a picture of it, or with it.
Write a review of it (on Goodreads, on a blog, on a bookselling website, in some kind of publication).
Or just throw it some stars.
Ask your public library to buy it.
Ask your school library (if any) to buy it.
Ask people who work in bookstores if they carry it, and if so where it is, in an excited manner!
Teach it, if you teach.
Invite the author to come read from/talk to people about it, either in person or via Zoom.
Recommend it for a book group, if you book group.
Casually quote it in conversation—or (if you prefer) reverently cite it like a sacred text.
Respectfully disagree with it.
Passionately argue with it.
Write the author a short letter/message that will buoy them in some useful way.
Fill it with marginalia.
Put a coffee ring on the cover.
Light candles for it.
Fall asleep holding it.
It’s strange to think that a year ago Everyone Knows was released into the wild. June 2020: a hard time for anything to be born, including debut novels. But she made it, thanks to the extraordinary folks at Ballantine, and the efforts of so many of you, who read and blurbed and promoted and hosted book clubs and starred on Goodreads and Amazon. I feel so grateful for you all.