The Hundred Loves of Juliet IS HERE!!
The book of my soul is out today... and it is inspired by my own true story.
Hello, my very dearest readers,
The Hundred Loves of Juliet is the best book I have ever written. I say that without hesitation, because I put every bit of my heart and soul into this story, and I can’t wait for you to read it.
I like to describe this contemporary novel as The Time Traveler’s Wife meets Romeo & Juliet. If you like Matt Haig, Rebecca Serle, and Audrey Niffenegger, I think The Hundred Loves of Juliet will be right up your alley.
Imagine this: Romeo never died, but Juliet did and has been reincarnated over and over. In every lifetime, Romeo finds her and falls in love, but he is also doomed to watch her die again.
Fast-forward to modern day and the question—How do you love someone if you know their time is short? And can you still find your way to happily ever after?
Inspired by My True Story
How do you love someone if you know their time is short?
Unfortunately, I know the answer to this question because I, too, am in love with someone who could die any day. Due to an incurable genetic lung disease, my husband had to have a double lung transplant. It was, in a way, like Juliet’s reincarnation—another chance at life. Nevertheless, lung transplants are terribly fragile since they’re exposed to the outside world with every single breath, and organ rejection or other infection are a constant threat.
So my own story became the inspiration for The Hundred Loves of Juliet. Life is never a guarantee, but it is harder—much harder—when Fate inks that fact like a tattoo to your soulmate’s chest. How do you love when grief might be around the corner? Do you put up walls, run away, decide to feel nothing rather than feel at all? Or can you find a way to stay, despite knowing the inevitable?
And yet—because I am also an eternal optimist—this novel is suffused with hope and the joy of living in the present. It is a paean to true love, to soulmates who fill your days with sunshine, to family and friendship and the beauty of life itself.
I hope you’ll pick up a copy of The Hundred Loves of Juliet today. More importantly, thank you so much for adoring books and sharing your love of them. I am incredibly grateful for all of you, and it is truly my honor to write stories for you.
Available in all formats! Hardcover, e-book, and audiobook:
Launch Party TONIGHT at Books Inc. Palo Alto!
Come celebrate the release of The Hundred Loves of Juliet with me! I’ll be chatting about alllll sorts of writerly things with my critique partner, Joanna Phoenix, who has promised not to reveal too many of my embarrassing secrets.
There will also be sweet treats (because there is always dessert if I’m involved), and a book signing!
The Hundred Loves of Juliet Launch Party
Tuesday, August 1st from 7 - 9 pm
Books Inc.
855 El Camino Real #74
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Telegraph Hill Books - San Francisco
If you’re farther north in the Bay Area, I will be at Telegraph Hill Books later this week!
Evelyn Skye in conversation with Erin Carlson
Thursday, August 3rd at 7pm
Telegraph Hill Books
1501 Grant Ave
San Francisco, CA 94133
Thank you again for all your love and support for my adult fiction debut! I truly treasure each and every one of you!
xoxo,
~evelyn