Come listen to New York Times and # 1 internationally bestselling author, Jenna Blum, talk about her new book, Murder Your Darlings!
For every woman who’s ever fallen for a man who seems too good to be true, comes MURDER YOUR DARLINGS, a hilarious and eviscerating suspense novel of love, loss, and publishing deadlines from New York Times bestselling author Jenna Blum.
EARLY PRAISE FOR MURDER YOUR DARLINGS:
“Authors and book tours, stalkers and deadlines, horrid men and ice cold revenge . . . Murder Your Darlings will have you cracking up while you’re checking under your bed.” — Karin Slaughter, New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author
“Is it wrong to call a serial killer novel fun? Because Murder Your Darlings is great fun—a delicious satire of the writing life as well as a genuinely gripping thriller." — Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of The Oligarch's Daughter
Known as a writer of brilliant historical novels (Those Who Save Us and The Lost Family), and beautifully evocative memoirs (Woodrow on the Bench), A Mighty Blaze co-founder and New York Times bestselling author Jenna Blum comes to readers with something completely different and truly delicious: her first psychological thriller. For fans of The Plot and The Wife but with more sex and death, MURDER YOUR DARLINGS (Harper, Hardcover; $30.00; ISBN: 9780063448087; on sale: January 13, 2026) is a delightfully devious, contemporary suspense novel about love, loss, and revenge set in the world of books.
Simone “Sam” Vetiver is a mid-career novelist finishing a lukewarm publicity tour while facing a deadline for a new book on which she’s totally blocked. Recently divorced, Sam is worrying where her life is going when she receives glowing fan mail from stratospherically successful author William Corwyn, renowned for his female-centric novels. When William and Sam meet and his literary sympathy is as intense as their chemistry, both writers think they’ve found The One.
But as in their own novels, things between Sam and William are not what they seem. William has multiple stalkers, including a scarily persistent one named The Rabbit. He lives on a remote Maine island, where his writer life resembles The Shining. And when writers turn up dead, including from The Darlings support group William runs, Sam has to ask: Is it The Rabbit—William’s #1 Stalker? Another woman scorned? Is William’s charming demeanor a fact—or a dangerous fiction?
Narrated by Sam, William, and The Rabbit, MURDER YOUR DARLINGS is at once a wickedly witty look at the writerly world, full of behind-the-scenes publishing lore and relatable characters, and also a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of how far people will go for love.
Jenna Blum is the New York Times and # 1 internationally bestselling author of novels Those Who Save Us, The Stormchasers, and The Lost Family; memoir Woodrow on the Bench; audiocourse “The Author at Work: The Art of Writing Fiction” and original podcast The Key of Love. Jenna is CEO and Co-Founder of online author interview platform A Mighty Blaze and one of Oprah.com readers’ Top 30 Women Writers. Jenna earned her MA in Creative Writing at Boston University and has taught workshops for Boston University, Grub Street Writers, A Mighty Blaze, and numerous other institutions for over 25 years. She interviewed Holocaust survivors for Steven Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation and is a professional public speaker, traveling nationally and internationally to speak about her work. Jenna is based in Boston. For more about Jenna, please visit www.jennablum.com and follow her on Facebook, Twitter/X (@Jenna_Blum), Instagram (@Jenna_Blum), TikTok (@jenna.blum), and Substack.
I can’t wait for you and your audience to read MURDER YOUR DARLINGS, and I know you’ll want to feature it on your best books of 2026 lists. Its whip-smart, cinematic descriptions of publishing inside-baseball and relationship dynamics will have you laughing with recognition on every page, checking your closet for murderers, and questioning why it’s so hard sometimes to tell what’s true when you’re in love. Jenna is available for interviews and physical galleys will be in very soon — I’d be happy to send you one! I look forward to discussing prominent review and feature coverage for this fantastic new novel.