The One With “Currently”, the New Books and New Podcast episode…

Steel Magnolias meets Schitt’s Creek in this emotional, laugh-through-the-tears women’s fiction novel about sisters, grief, second chances, and the family that knows how to push every button.

At fifty, Hope Hall has done everything right. She earned a PhD, built a career, and held her marriage together with determination and stubborn denial.

When her life publicly unravels, Hope returns to her hometown in Texas, and the loud, loving, opinionated family who never quite understood her. Surrounded by her four sisters, who make everything bigger, messier, and usually a public spectacle, she expects the chaos, the old grudges, and small-town rivalries that always seem to involve toilet paper and bail money.

What she doesn’t expect is June—her wild, fearless sister, who has spent a decade giving cancer the middle finger. But you can only run from the devil for so long, and what’s coming for June may be the thing Hope’s family can’t survive.

Told with sharp humor, messy love, and the kind of honesty that sneaks up and wrecks you, The Summer That Changed Us is a deeply moving, laugh-through-the-tears story about sisters, second chances, and what it really means to show up when it matters most.

Perfect for readers who love emotional women’s fiction, small-town family dramas, and unforgettable Southern characters.

*This book contains themes of terminal illness, grief, and the death of a sibling.

# My Christmas Wish List by Elodie Now

A kid calling me Dad. My sister’s best friend crashing in to help like this is a romcom. (And yeah, pinning said sister’s best friend to the nearest wall would absolutely get me on the naughty list.) This Christmas is a disaster waiting to happen. 

One minute I’m a Grinch divorce lawyer avoiding Christmas like it’s a contested prenup clause, the next, there’s a twelve-year-old girl on my doorstep claiming I’m her dad. With her cat annoying my beagle, and an annotated list of holiday movies I’m apparently contractually obligated to watch. And then? My little sister’s best friend moves in to help.

The former wedding planner. She looks like every bad decision I’ve always wanted to make, and nearly did that night after that Christmas party. Now she’s in my house, wearing flannel, baking things, and filing motions to trim trees like we’re not one snowstorm away from me forgetting every objection I’ve ever raised.

Out on July 31st, 2026

Cancer Is Not My Brand…

Welcome to the inside of my brain. Cancer Is Not My Brand is not a how-to guide on publishing, branding, or writing. But hopefully, it will make you feel seen. (Also, yes, it’s a book *I* needed to write).

This is pretty much what was happening in my head when I got diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma back in October 2017. How that affected my writing at the time of diagnosis. How I lost my words at the start of treatment. Before finding them again. Differently.

And how cancer (even in remission, and in so many different ways) keeps shaping my creativity. Despite me really not wanting cancer to be my brand.

If you’re writing through something hard, or not writing through it, maybe this makes you feel a little less alone.

Welcome to the first book in my F***-It series on writing, self-publishing and marketing.

Out on October 7th, 2026

The story of Nick and Em continues in A New Year’s Eve Like No Other…

Out November 10th, 2026