I can hardly believe I’m writing this, but LAST CALL AT THE LOCAL is out now! 🍀 🇮🇪 🍻 🐈⬛ 🎸 🎶 💕 ✈️🥯 🥾 🧠🧦🧳🪲🌸
When I started writing this book in September of 2021, I had no idea that it would be my greatest writing challenge to date. Despite being a soft cozy travel romance between two neurodivergent sunshine leads, this story asked me to explore some vulnerable places within myself in ways that my first two books didn’t. Living with ADHD, I often feel lazy, selfish, and immature, even when I know I’m not. Putting all of those insecurities on the page, especially when I knew thousands of strangers would eventually read them, was both terrifying and healing.
I hope that you will love Raine and Jack (and Jack’s cat Sebastian) as much as I do. I wanted to write neurodivergent characters who shine and thrive and crack jokes and love hard, while not shying away from the challenges of living with their conditions. I hope I’ve achieved that. This is a very neurodivergent story, but it isn’t only for neurodivergent readers. It’s for anyone who has ever felt like they were too much or not enough.
To my readers with OCD: Please take care in reading this book, as Jack’s OCD and intrusive thoughts are quite heavy. I am so grateful for the friends, family, and resources that guided me in writing Jack’s character as accurately and sensitively as possible. I hope I have done justice to your experience. Any errors or mistakes are my own.
I am so grateful that I had the opportunity to write this book. Thank you to my family, friends, agent, editor, and to my entire team at Berkley and PRH. Thank you to the wonderful people of Cobh who helped me on my book research trip. And to everyone who has read and shared my books—thank you for your love and support.
Sláinte!
XO, SGR
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Reading now and so excited. I love your books!