July 6, 2023
ASKING FOR A FRIEND Book Trailer REVEALED!
I’m so excited to share my very first book trailer for Asking for a Friend, which Stuart and I had the most fun creating together back in the spring. I hope that it makes you extra excited to read the book and that you’re even moved enough to share it with your own networks! Two more months until everybody gets to meet Clara and Jess!
June 26, 2023
Most Anticipated: AFAF is 20% off at Indigo this week!
Is there a nicer way to kick off the week than with the news that ASKING FOR A FRIEND is part of @indigo’s MOST ANTICIPATED CANADIAN BOOKS promotion with pre-orders on sale for 20% off until July 2?
I DON’T BELIEVE THERE IS!!
Out September 5 from @doubledayca, now’s your chance to support it with your pre-order and get a sweet deal in the process.
I am so excited for readers to fall in love with Clara and Jess!
“This novel is like the best kind of friend: honest, wise, complicated, endearing, smart—and Kerry Clare as a writer is all these things, too. What a poignant, observant tribute—and elegy—to the life sustaining force that is friendship between women. Clare sees it so clearly: the way friendship can be a love story, complete with heartbreak and redemption. I plan to share this book with my dearest friends, all the while marvelling at how lucky I am to have them, and how much better a place the world is with Clare’s books in it.” —Marissa Stapley, New York Times bestselling author of Lucky
June 23, 2023
Happy Birthday, Clarence Thomas?
Before last June, it had never occurred to me that Clarence Thomas had a birthday. That he had not, in fact, emerged into the world middle aged, sitting in a room crowded with concerned-seeming people who pronounced “harassment” in surprising ways while telling stories about pubic hairs left on pop cans that were bewildering to my 12-year-old ears, and that I don’t understand any better today.
But it turns out that Clarence Thomas’s birthday is today, June 23, and also the day before mine, which I discovered the morning I turned 43 while hanging out sheets on my clothesline and listening to @mollyjongfast on her political podcast right before I got the terrible news that the US Supreme Court had ended abortion access for millions of Americans.
Happy Birthday, Clarence Thomas…I guess??
Thanks to @shedoesthecity for publishing my essay on the devastation of Roe vs. Wade falling one year ago, but also about how it made me realize how my new novel (ASKING FOR A FRIEND, forthcoming from @doubledayca on September 5) had to end.
June 8, 2023
AFAF Mood Board: Part Three
Time for mood board number 3 for ASKING FOR A FRIEND, coming September 5 from @doubledayca. This instalment takes us through 2006-2007 as Jess and Clara find themselves back on the same continent for the first time in years, but worlds apart in so many other ways, Rihanna’s “Umbrella,” playing low on the radio in the background: “Said I’ll always be your friend, took an oath gonna stick it out to the end.”
Save the date for a Toronto launch on September 6!!
April 26, 2023
AFAF Mood Board: Part Two
Mood Board 2 for Asking for a Friend, my new novel coming from Doubleday Canada on September 5! These images are inspired by the novel’s third and fourth chapters in which Jess and Clara begin to make their respective ways in the world after having lived a life entwined throughout their early 20s. How are they supposed to be themselves without each other?
Asking for a Friend is available for pre-order from your favourite bookseller!
April 6, 2023
AFAF Mood Board: Part One
Yesterday marks five months before the release of my new novel, and to celebrate, I’m sharing a mood board for opening chapter, set from 1998-2000. So excited to share this book with you!
March 22, 2023
Asking for a Friend: Cover Revealed!
I am beyond thrilled to finally be sharing with you the gorgeous cover for my new novel, ASKING FOR A FRIEND, coming September 5, 2023, from Doubleday Canada, designed by the talented Lisa Jager. It’s the cover of my wildest dreams, encompassing two of my favourite things, extravagant sunsets and SWIMMING, and it’s such a wonderful encapsulation of this story, which I’m so looking forward to sharing with the world.
You can preorder your copy now at the SHOP LOCAL link at my publisher’s homepage, or at your favourite bookseller. Stay tuned for preorder goodies and launch plans.
January 13, 2023
235 Days
235 days until Asking for a Friend is released! And in the meantime, my previous novels are still out there in the world, being read, and (in one case) wearing a moustache. Thank you to everybody who’s reading and sharing.
January 19, 2022
Book News!
I’m thrilled to share news that my third novel, ASKING FOR A FRIEND, is coming Spring 2023 from Doubleday Canada. It’s a story of friendship over decades and how motherhood complicates that connection, at times drawing friends together, other times pushing them apart, and how IMPOSSIBLE it seems sometimes to find other women making different choices from one’s own. This is a story that I’ve been working on for a very long time and I’m so thrilled for the opportunity to finally share it with you!
I’m grateful to Samantha Haywood and her team at Transatlantic for their work on the deal, and to the wonderful Bhavna Chauhan for having me back for another book.
