On Tour 09/05/24-10/05/24 “A New Day: Stories” by Sue Mell

Release Date: September 3, 2024

About The Book:

Set in New York and San Francisco beginning in 1982, these beautifully crafted and moving linked short stories follow a group of twenty-somethings who struggle to find happy relationships and creative fulfillment -and then to deal with the choices they made in their youth.

Rachel falls for one of her professors in her final year of art school and never quite shakes the attachment. Yet when another old flame, whose addiction killed his sculpture career, later criticizes her corporate artistic success, Rachel knows enough to value the life and career she’s created. Emma, a determined aspiring actress, flits from one house-sitting gig to the next, until forced by a hold-up at her waitressing job to finally ask herself why she can’t stay in one place. And after a coke-fueled evening photo shoot at Bloomingdale’s leads to being fired, Nina discovers, years afterward, the unexpected promise of that evening.

Filled with longing and hope, loss and reconnection, bad choices and better ones, A NEW DAY takes a generous look at early adulthood and how we age slowly into our dreams, or into whatever we can salvage of them, and how-if we’re lucky- we also grow into wisdom and a kind of grace.

About The Author:

Sue Mell writes fiction and creative nonfiction in both short and long forms. Her work has appeared in Narrative Magazine, Hippocampus Magazine, Jellyfish Review, Cleaver Magazine, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA from Warren Wilson and was a 2020 BookEnds fellow at SUNY Stony Brook. You can find more about Sue at http://www.suemell.com. She lives in Queens, New York, where she cares for her aging mom and a gray tuxedo cat named Poppy.

Social Media:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suemellwrites

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SueMellAuthor

Book Blurbs:

Endlessly fascinating characters propel these wonderfully ardent stories.” KIRKUS REVIEWS

“A wise and tender portrait of chance encounters and missed connections, Sue Mell’s A New Day is a love letter to the people we meet along the way and those we leave behind. I loved it.”DAISY ALPERT FLORIN, author of My Last Innocent Year

“Sex, money, ambition, friendship; the myriad challenges of ordinary survival in A New Day are handled with wry and artful insight. Beautifully complex characters are pieces of a puzzle in this fine collection, while each story is both distinct and part of the whole.”LOUISE MARBURG, author of You Have Reached Your Destination

“An enthralling and visceral collection about both our inescapable interconnectedness and loneliness, the role chance plays in the decisions we make, and how even the most seemingly small moments irrevocably impact our lives.” RONIT PLANK, author of Home Is a Made-Up Place

“Clear prose, vivid scenes, and snappy dialogue bring Mell’s well-developed characters to life.These linked stories explore relationships -evocative snapshots revealing desire, love, loss, and everything in between.” CORIE ADJMI, author of Life and Other Shortcomings

“This collection beautifully captures the delicious chaos of real life, lived over decades of mingled success and disappointment, of missed connections and second chances.”CAITLIN HORROCKS, author of Life Among the Terranauts

Bloggers On Tour:

Sept. 5th- Jennifer Tar Heel Reader https://instagram.com/tarheelreader

Sept. 7th- Plains Reading https://instagram.com/plains_reading

Sept. 9th- Books Love And Understanding https://instagram.com/booksloveandunderstanding

Sept. 13th- Books and Coffee MX https://instagram.com/booksandcoffeemx

Sept. 18th- Reading With Mere-https://instagram.com/readingwithmere

Sept. 19th- Rozier Reads and Wine https://instagram.com/rozierreadsandwine

Sept. 23rd – Reading Late Into The Night https://instagram.com/reading.late.into.the.night

Sept. 25th- Marilyn Goncalves https://instagram.com/marilynjgon

Sept. 30th – Nurse Bookie https://instagram.com/nurse_bookie

Oct. 2nd- Shooks Books https://instagram.com/shook_sbooks

Oct. 3rd- Miss W Book Reviews https://instagram.com/misswbookreviews