"I love a family drama," says Mellors, whose new novel is the Read with Jenna book club Sept. 2024 selection Ballantine Books; Zoe Potkin It took author Coco Mellors five years to write her debut novel, , but the journey helped with future projects. She wrote at night and on weekends while working as a fashion copywriter and earning her MFA in fiction from New York University, and though the book eventually became a bestseller, as well as the subject of many passionate reader reviews on TikTok, her success wasn’t immediate.
That experience did, however, prepare Mellors for the journey of publishing her second novel, , out now from Ballantine Books. “No writing process is ever completely smooth. A novel is a long labor of love,” the author told PEOPLE at the Creator Book Club event, hosted by Threads, in New York City on Sept.
25. “I definitely found I had more confidence this time around, because I knew I had finished a novel before, and I had faith that I could do it again.” Ballantine Books And she has.
was an instant bestseller upon its Sept. 3 release, and recently chose it as the Sept. 2024 selection for her Read with Jenna book club.
Bush Hager also moderated a discussion with Mellors at the Creator Book Club event. Following a trio of sisters who are mourning the unexpected loss of their fourth, the novel chronicles the ups and downs the Blue siblings face as they return to the New York City apartment where they were raised. Mellors, who cites , and as author.