We’re BEYOND grateful to our readers for giving us the gift of making FULL BLOOM *and* THE UNRAVELING OF JULIA side-by-side @usatoday national bestsellers! Thank you!! And thank you to @reesewitherspoon for one of the greatest movies ever made, Legally Blonde! Don’t you speak in movie quotes with your family? 🤓😂🥰
Gift with pre-order! As a thank you for pre-ordering FULL BLOOM, I’m delighted to offer you this gift of an exclusive perfume that I created just for you!
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To research FULL BLOOM, I traveled to Grasse, the capital of perfumery in the south of France. I visited Galimard, a fragrance house founded in 1747, where I composed my very own, original fragrance. I named it “Près de Moi,” meaning close to me, which is how I think of each and every reader. To read a book is to share a mind and heart, and I’m so grateful.
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To receive your gift, pre-order FULL BLOOM in any format from the book retailer of your choice and email the receipt and your mailing address to [email protected], and I will send you a travel spray of Près de Moi that I made just for you with my love and gratitude! Thank you for your support! 💝
La vida leyendo Florece (Full Bloom), de Francesca Serritella 💐✨
—Hice este perfume porque quiero que sientas tu poder y le muestres al mundo de lo que eres capaz. Pero, sobre todo, quiero que consigas lo que tú quieras.
—Me conformaría con tener lo que merezco.
—¿Quién te dice que no sean lo mismo? Te mereces todo lo que quieras.
Happy NINETEENTH birthday to Mimi!! 19 years of lap cuddles, love bites, tolerating dogs, editing/rubbing on my books, and making any room she’s in feel like home—Mimi is my purr baby queen! We got her and her (probably not biological) sister Vivi from the barn cat bin at a livestock feed store when I was in college, and while Vivi prefers the green acres at my mom’s, Mimi has been living her best city life with me since 2012, and both cats are going strong! We celebrated with lobster-flavored Temptation treats, a Churu squeezie, and this catnip “meowijuana” doobie, which at Mimi’s age is medicinal. I love my cat! (Kitten pics at the end!)
Dr. Goldberg has known this family for 13 years! What a privilege to have such a special relationship with them! #humananimalbond #asvcvet #vetvisits #friendship
Courtney Yip, my dear friend since I was 11 and the gifted lighting designer who helped me portray Iris’s profession in FULL BLOOM, also once worked on the 9/11 memorial Tribute in Light. September 11th, 2001 I was sitting behind Courtney in chemistry class when we watched that horrible day unfold on our classroom TV, and on the tenth anniversary she took me to the site to view the memorial up close. It was raining and the heat from the light beams sent the rain back up in plumes of steam like ghosts. It was beautiful and moving, and I am touched to see the memorial every year. Tonight, I’m reminded that life is precious, violence is horrible, and it’s a privilege to grow old with your friends. Praying for peace in all regions and all hearts. 🙏#NeverForget
I had the best time talking with the brilliant ladies of @friendsandfiction ! Watch the full interview on YouTube and Facebook and on their podcast, link in bio! Thank you again to @pattichenry@marykayandrews@kristinharmel and @kristywharvey for making FULL BLOOM your August pick and for this wonderful discussion! And thanks Mom @lisascottoline for dropping in and letting me “ear-muffs” you during a live interview 😂🙉
I’m honored and so excited for FULL BLOOM to be the Friends & Fiction “pick of the month” for August!!! Tune in live on Weds, Aug 20 at 7pm ET to watch my discussion with fabulous authors @kristinharmel@kristywharvey and @marykayandrews !! You can watch on the Friends & Fiction Facebook page or YouTube!! And if you miss it, it will be available as an episode of their Friends & Fiction podcast starting on Aug 22!
🎧Sound on! I am so in love with FULL BLOOM’s audiobook narration by @saskiaaudio 🥰🤩😊 the opening alone makes my heart skip a beat! Writing a novel is mostly so solitary that it’s such an unexpected gift and honor when others lend their super-talents to my “baby” and help me bring the story to life! Thank you again to Saskia, director @aliasmisterkent and the entire @ballantinebooks@randomhouse audio team!! 🙏💞
And the sweetest part? I’m right next to my mom @lisascottoline on the @usatoday national bestseller list! 🥰 This is such a special honor for our little family. 🥹🙏 Thank you to the longtime readers who supported us since our column and memoirs together and those who came to our fiction separately, you are all so special to us. 💞 And thank you to my mom, my hero, for setting the bar in books—and everything else. 💗
