Except that no matter what new essay collection or online editorial she’s promoting, someone always asks about The Profile.

Ten years later, after a brutal divorce and a healthy dose of therapy, Chani is back in Los Angeles as a successful writer with the career of her dreams. But what comes next proves to be life changing in ways she never saw coming, as the interview turns into a whirlwind weekend that has the tabloids buzzing-and Chani getting closer to Gabe than she had planned. All Chani wants to do is keep her cool and nail the piece. Then she’s hired to write a profile of movie star Gabe Parker: her number one celebrity crush and the latest James Bond. While her former MFA classmates are nabbing high-profile book deals, all she does is churn out puff pieces. Twenty-something writer Chani Horowitz is stuck. It’s filled with delightful banter, hot romance, and a love story that’s worthy of the big screen.”-Kate Spencer, author of In a New York Minute and host of Forever35 ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Cosmopolitan, NPR, The Washington Post, Book Riot Then.

A restless young journalist with big dreams interviews a Hollywood heartthrob-and reunites with him ten years later to discover exactly how he feels about her in this sexy and engrossing novel “You will absolutely devour this book.

Get Funny You Should Ask from The Ripped Bodice | Bookshop. And one fairly steamy scene toward the end.ĬW: alcoholism/rehab death of a parent at age 10 sexism in Hollywood & journalism homophobia (actor loses out on a job because he’s gay, eventually comes out on his own terms).Įlissa Sussman will be in conversation with Kate Spencer at Chevalier Books (in-store, not virtual) in LA on April 12 at 7 p.m. While it’s contemporary fiction with a romance in it, romance readers should know you do get a HEA. And/or the voiceyness of Kate Spencer’s In a New York Minute.

Pick this one up if you liked the celeb/normie elements of Robinne Lee’s The Idea of You. If you read LaineyGossip (or Go Fug Yourself) on the regular, Funny You Should Ask should be on your TBR. And l loved that Sussman intersperses Chani’s POV with articles reporting/speculating on what went down. Snappy prose and great banter make for a fast read. Ten years later, now divorced Chani who has two books under her belt, is asked to interview him again. Then, the celeb profile she writes about him goes viral, essentially making both their careers. They hit it off and the initial interview extends into an invite to a movie premiere and more. His career is about to break big as he’s slated to be the next James Bond. Chani Horowitz is a 26-year-old writer when she first meets Gabe Parker.

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