This kit includes an author interview, discussion questions, cover design interview, writing prompts as well as some fun ideas like bookmarks that you can print off, a pen name generator, how to make a charcuterie board, and the secret to every successful book club - cocktails! This kit was created and is tailor made for book clubs who are reading and discussing this book. She is assigned to help a famous (and hunky) actor who is trying to write his memoirs. In this rendition Izzy, a frustrated author herself, is trying to make it in the publishing world. My thoughts and opinions are 100% my own and independent of receiving an advance copy.īy The Book by Jasmine Guillory is a modern day romance based on The Beauty and The Beast. Many thanks to NetGalley, We Are Bookish and Jasmine Guillory for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. They soon discover they have more in common than either of them expected, and as their deadline nears, Izzy and Beau begin to realize there may be something there that wasn't there before.īest-selling author Jasmine Guillory’s reimagining of a beloved fairy tale is a romantic triumph of love and acceptance and learning that sometimes to truly know a person you have to read between the lines. But despite his standoffishness, Izzy needs Beau to deliver, and with her encouragement, his story begins to spill onto the page. He is jaded and withdrawn and-it turns out-just as lost as Izzy.

Beau Towers is not some celebrity lightweight writing a tell-all memoir. How hard could it be?īut Izzy quickly finds out she is in over her head.

So when she overhears her boss complaining about a beastly high-profile author who has failed to deliver his long-awaited manuscript, Isabelle sees an opportunity to finally get the promotion she deserves.Īll she has to do is go to the author’s Santa Barbara mansion and give him a quick pep talk or three. Overworked and underpaid, constantly torn between speaking up or stifling herself, Izzy thinks there must be more to this publishing life. When she first began her career in publishing right out of college, she did not expect to be twenty-five, living at home, still an editorial assistant, and the only Black employee at her publishing house.

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