Hi, sorry to be in your inboxes again; this one will be short!
Look at this ridiculously cute cover for Donut Summer.
I love everything about it, Penny’s freckles most especially, along with their little violating-executive-orders pronoun pins and the SPRINKLES and the sheen of the donut box design.
Here’s also a synopsis:
“Relaxing” and “getting a tan” may be high on most teens’ summer activity list, but for chronically freckled and deeply anxious Penny Dexter? Not a chance. Socking money away for college? Of course. Babysitting her siblings? Sure. Becoming a climate scientist and saving the world? She wishes.
At least she can tackle the tuition money with the seasonal gig she landed at her local donut shop. But when she finds out that her genderqueer nemesis Mateo della Penna will also be working behind the counter, Penny’s summer of mindless labor vanishes before her eyes. But their two-and-a-half-year feud takes a backseat when Delicious Donuts is threatened by a corporate takeover.
As their small town confronts changes Penny can’t accept, there’s still one person who remains by her side. And though their taste in donuts is questionable (the apple fritter is clearly superior to the Boston cream), Mateo’s presence manages to calm Penny’s anxiety while opening new possibilities she never allowed herself to contemplate before. Could it be that Penny’s found the perfect, most infuriating person to face the world with?
As a newsletter exclusive, I will share that I actually love BOTH apple fritters and Boston creams. But I do gravitate toward apple fritters first these days. Obviously I am always, ultimately, on Penny’s side.
(Also: Amazon currently lists this as appropriate for 8-12 year olds but that is very wrong! My kid is 8 and I certainly do not want him to read it! But if you have kids of your own/kids in your life and you’re curious, I would recommend it for 12 and up. The main characters are 16; this is a very middle-of-high-school book versus new adult. Sex is discussed but not had; I also curse a fair amount as I tend to do.)
Reminder that Donut Summer is out July 29th and available to pre-order and add on Goodreads.
For one other bit of news—the Moonie’s novellas are now available on Kindle Unlimited.
This is just a bit of an experiment for me—the paperback and audio editions are still available everywhere else, along with the collected edition. But the original ebook novellas are now hanging out in KU! Along with the skiing-in-Switzerland Moonie’s short and that spicy novella I published under a different name once.
Okay that’s all for now!
queer love and donuts,
anita
Can’t wait!!
I love it!