From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Murphy and USA Today bestselling author Sierra Simone who gave us A Merry Little Meet Cute comes a new holiday rom-com--'tis the season for second chances!What happens when there's no room at the inn and you and your potentially demonic cat become roommates with your grumpy one-night stand?Part-time adult film actress/one-time adult film director/makeup artist Sunny Palmer has accidentally sold her very first screenplay to the Hope Channel. That was six months ago. Fast forward to a looming deadline, an uninspired Sunny has returned to the source of her inspiration in Christmas Notch, Vermont, to immerse herself in the local Christmas miracle on which her fever dream of a movie pitch was based.Isaac Kelly, former boy band heartthrob and the saddest boy in the music biz, is the latest owner of the town's historic mansion. After his years of heartbreak following his young wife's death, Isaac's record label is done waiting for new music. What better place to attempt his first holiday album than a snow-covered mansion where he can become a hermit in peace?But after their best friends' wedding leads to them waking up together in a freezing motel room with questionable wiring and a broken shower, Isaac takes a chance and asks Sunny to stay with him at his home. Surely the place is big enough that he'll hardly see her or her unhinged cat. But when the two discover they're both creatively blocked, they make a handshake deal: Isaac will help Sunny hunt down the truth behind the local lore, and Sunny will find Isaac a new muse.And with these two opposites under one roof, there's no way this jingle bell mingle could go off script...right?
Julie Murphy es una destacada escritora estadounidense especializada en literatura juvenil y narrativa contemporánea. Nació el 8 de noviembre de 1985 y comenzó su carrera literaria tras trabajar como bibliotecaria en Texas, experiencia que inspiró su primera novela, escrita durante el reto de escritura NaNoWriMo. Su obra debut, Side Effects May Vary, marcó el inicio de una trayectoria literaria que ha resonado entre jóvenes adultos.
Su siguiente novela, Dumplin’, se convirtió en un éxito inmediato, resultando en un bestseller del New York Times y dando lugar a una adaptación cinematográfica en Netflix. A esta le siguieron otras novelas populares como Puddin’, Pumpkin y Ramona Blue, obras que consolidaron su reputación por crear protagonistas auténticas y emocionalmente complejas.
Además, Murphy amplió su trayectoria hacia la literatura infantil con libros como Dear Sweet Pea, y exploró nuevas facetas del género juvenil a través de la reimaginación de personajes como Faith Herbert en Faith: Taking Flight y su secuela, Faith: Greater Heights. También ha incursionado en la novela romántica adulta con títulos como If the Shoe Fits y la coescrito A Merry Little Meet Cute.
Su estilo destaca por retratar cuerpos diversos con empatía y humor, y por contar historias que reflejan la búsqueda de identidad, la inclusión y la autoaceptación. Actualmente reside en el norte de Texas junto a su esposo, su perro y sus gatos, disfrutando de actividades como planear viajes, buscar la porción perfecta de pizza de queso y revivir los días en el mostrador de la biblioteca.
Sierra is a voracious reader and loves to write the dirtiest things she can think of. She lives in the Kansas City area with her husband, two children, and two giant dogs. And a horrible cat.
Her novels have been published in Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, and Romanian. She has been featured in Buzzfeed, Cosmopolitan, Entertainment Weekly, Marie Claire, and Library Journal with a featured review.