SAY IT OUT LOUD

Ashley Schumacher's first adult novel SAY IT OUT LOUD is the best mash-up of Rainbow Rowell's FANGIRL meets Emily Henry's BOOK LOVERS meets Rachel Lynn Solomon's THE EX TALK, with a nod to the Twilight fandom a romcom that will have even the most skeptical readers believing in the magic of fate.

One fateful night at the opening (and only) performance of their small college's Romeo & Juliet play, James Neely finds Juniper Green crying her eyes out in his dressing room. And so, their magical connection begins. Many years later, having lost contact after their impromptu Romeo & Juliet rendezvous, Juniper is mourning something new. She had just accidentally signed over all the rights to her successful bookish podcast to a predatory audio company. Now feeling lost and unsure of her next step, an invitation to audition for a mysterious audiobook production land in her inbox. Juniper discovers that the audition is for none other than the BIGGEST paranormal YA series that has ever existed, The Meadow.. When she puts on her headphones to practice for the audition, suddenly and quite impossibly. another voice comes through. It's James Neely. Despite his rising stardom and a pending superhero movie franchise, James is feeling lost about his career. When he accepted the role of William, the iconic vampire love interest in his late mother's favorite paranormal romance series he never thought it would lead him to reunite with Juniper again. Now the two must work together on this audio production of one of the most intensely beloved YA series of all time. To amplify the stakes even higher, the two are contracted to perform certain social media elements to promote the production. It comes with a hefty financial reward if they accumulate a large enough following, but also risks the project entirely if they fail to garner enough interest. Juniper needs this financial incentive to restart her career, but to her dismay James is strangely adamantly against doing any social media promotion. She's going to have to convince him if they're to make the production a success but winning him over may prove tricky when it seems like he's more likely to win her heart. Ashley Schumacher is an author of whimsical and romantic books for young adults with a degree in creative writing from the University of North Texas. A full-time writer, she feels more than a little vindicated for having spent lots of math classes reading beneath her desk. When Ashley isn't working, you'll most likely find her playing cozy video games, planning trips to far-off places, leafing through the folklore and fairytale anthologies she is always acquiring "for research", or traipsing about her North Texas home with her husband and son.