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The cover has been unveiled for Emily Giffin’s forthcoming novel, First Comes Love. We’ve embedded the full image for the jacket design above—what do you think?

US Weekly reports that the story “centers around a pair of thirtysomething sisters named Meredith and Josie, who both face the question: If love, marriage, and children don’t arrive in the usual order, which comes first?”

Ballantine Books, a Penguin Random House imprint, will publish the book on June 28, 2016.

In her eagerly awaited new novel, beloved New York Times bestselling author Emily Giffin returns with an extraordinary story of love and loyalty—and an unconventional heroine struggling to reconcile both.

Thirty-three-year-old Shea Rigsby has spent her entire life in Walker, Texas—a small college town that lives and dies by football, a passion she unabashedly shares. Raised alongside her best friend, Lucy, the daughter of Walker’s legendary head coach, Clive Carr, Shea was too devoted to her hometown team to leave. Instead she stayed in Walker for college, even taking a job in the university athletic department after graduation, where she has remained for more than a decade.

But when an unexpected tragedy strikes the tight-knit Walker community, Shea’s comfortable world is upended, and she begins to wonder if the life she’s chosen is really enough for her. As she finally gives up her safety net to set out on an unexpected path, Shea discovers unsettling truths about the people and things she has always trusted most—and is forced to confront her deepest desires, fears, and secrets.

Thoughtful, funny, and brilliantly observed, The One and Only is a luminous novel about finding your passion, following your heart, and, most of all, believing in something bigger than yourself . . . the one and only thing that truly makes life worth living.

I literally can’t wait to see this one! I love Emily Giffin’s books!

Here is a great article on book promotion from today’s Boston Herald. It includes advice from Emily Giffin, Claire Cook and Jennifer Weiner.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrates one of the most important men in American history. Celebrations often include reading books about his life and legacy and remembering the ways in which his dream is a work-in-progress that the rest of us have the responsibility to work toward.

Many children’s books take a look at the life, leadership, and ideals of equality Martin Luther King promoted and fought non-violently for, and here are two of my personal favorites:

A powerful intertwining of history and dreams, My Dream of Martin Luther King, written and illustrated by Faith Ringgold is one of the most beautiful tributes to his life’s work that I’ve ever come across to date. And to see how it all started with a promise, read My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers, written by King’s sister, renowned educator Christine King Farris, and masterfully illustrated by Chris Soentpiet (here Soentpiet talks about how he came to work on the project.) Christine’s memories of growing up with brother Martin show how one particular event in their shared childhood inspired him to make a promise to his mother and, later on, to start a movement that changed the course of history.

So, today, and throughout the year, whether we talk to children about the basic message of treating people fairly and equally regardless of their outside appearance or go deeper into issues of racism, it’s important to remind them that the exclusion King’s fought against wasn’t remedied once and for all when laws changed. The more kids think about the struggles and accomplishments of those who, like Martin Luther King, spoke up against injustice and prejudice, the more likely they are to learn to speak up against it themselves, and to help create positive change in the world.