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Authors of Ten Thousand Light Years from Okay

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TEN THOUSAND LIGHT YEARS FROM OKAY is now available!

Media Coverage

Good Housekeeping names Ten Thousand Light Years from Okay as December 2025 Book Club pick (Nov/Dec 2025 issue)

PEOPLE Magazine (online) includes Ten Thousand Light Years from Okay in “10 Books to Read While We Wait for The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Movie Adaptation” (8.2.2025)

Women’s Wear Daily (WWD) includes Tracy and Wendy’s upcoming December 9th NYC event in “Minnie Rose to Open Pop-Up Bookstore Within Lexington Avenue Flagship With Zibby Media” (10.6.2025)

Princeton Alumni Weekly – Tracy Dobmeier ’90 Collaborates on Novel that Blurs the Lines of Reality and Fiction (11.17.25)

UW Daily review – Not your regular romance: Local authors release their sophomore novel ‘Ten Thousand Light Years from Okay’ (11.6.2025)

Review by Crossroad Reviews

Women Writers Women’s Books – Authors Interviewing Characters: Tracy Dobmeier & Wendy Katzman

The Page 69 Test

Good Housekeeping includes Ten Thousand Light Years from Okay in I’m a Books Editor. These 11 Books Are Perfect Gifts for the Readers on Your List

Good Housekeeping includes Ten Thousand Light Years from Okay in A Complete List of Our Good Housekeeping Book Club Picks

The University of Michigan Alumni Association includes Ten Thousand Light Years from Okay in its Winter 2025 Reading List

Readworthy by Bookbub includes Ten Thousand Light Years from Okay in This Month’s Best New Popular Fiction

Books Right Now features Ten Thousand Light Years from Okay

Girls with Bright Futures is available – ORDER NOW!
Trade News

Girls with Bright Futures receives a starred review from Publishers Weekly (11.4.2020)

Girls with Bright Futures receives a starred review from Library Journal (January 2021)

Girls with Bright Futures receives a review from Kirkus (January 2021)

Girls with Bright Futures receives a review from Booklist (January 2021)

Media Coverage

Library Journal names Girls With Bright Futures to Best of Pop Fiction 2021 list (12.6.2021)

Buzzfeed includes Girls With Bright Futures in “18 Books That Deserve More Hype, According to Seasoned Readers” (8.26.2021)

REAL SIMPLE Magazine (online) includes Girls With Bright Futures in “30 Great Books to Read Right Now to Suit Any Mood or Interest” (7.16.2021)

CafeMom includes Girls With Bright Futures in “20 Books That Are a Must-Read This Summer” (6.23.2021)

Discovery Moves Back Into Drama With ‘Girls With Bright Futures’ Series In The Works At Streamer With John Goldwyn & Karen Rosenfelt (5.3.2021)

New York Post reviews Girls with Bright Futures, calling it “…a timely, sharp, funny book guaranteed to generate a good book-club discussion” (2.20.2021)

REAL SIMPLE Magazine (print) features Girls with Bright Futures in “The Book List: Top Picks for Every Taste” calling it a “Book Club Winner” (March 2021)

REAL SIMPLE Magazine (online) includes Girls with Bright Futures in “The Best Books to Read in 2021 (so far)” (2.17.2021)

Mind Joggle reviews Girls with Bright Futures (2.17.2021)

E! Online includes Girls with Bright Futures in “17 Books to Check Out This February” (2.13.2021)

The Spokesman-Review “Locally Writ: Writing together ‘a dream come true’ for Tracy Dobmeier, Wendy Katzman” (2.13.2021)

425 Magazine features “New Book ‘Girls with Bright Futures’ is Suspenseful in Seattle” (2.9.2021)

DIYMFA publishes Tracy & Wendy’s essay, “An Idiosyncratic Guide to Writing Together” (2.4.2021)

The Nerd Daily features a Q&A: Tracy Dobmeier and Wendy Katzman, Authors of Girls with Bright Futures (2.3.2021)

MS Career Girl includes Girls with Bright Futures in “Twelve 2021 Book Debuts to Add to Your Reading List” (2.2.2021)

POPSUGAR includes Girls with Bright Futures in “12 Thriller and Mystery Reads Sure to Keep You Inside this February” (2.1.2021)

Hasty Book List author interview with Tracy Dobmeier and Wendy Katzman (1.31.201)

Bookish includes Girls with Bright Futures in “21 Debut Novels to Have On Your 2021 TBR” (1.15.2021)

PARADE includes Girls with Bright Futures in “A New Year in Books: The Best 2021 Releases to Read This Winter”  (1.8.2021)

Bookstr names Girls with Bright Futures as one of “The 8 Most Anticipated Reads of 2021” (1.5.2021)

Refinery29 includes Girls with Bright Futures in “32 Great Books to Start Off Your New Year” (12.29.2020)

NEWSWEEK includes Girls with Bright Futures in “2021s Most Highly Anticipated New Books: 26 Fiction and Nonfiction Titles to Get Lost In” (12.23.2020)

Brit + Co. names Girls with Bright Futures in “15 Highly Anticipated Novels We Can’t Wait to Read in 2021” (12.23.2020)

FROLIC includes Girls with Bright Futures in “The 20 Best Books of Winter” (12.10.2020)

FROLIC includes Girls with Bright Futures in “The 12 Most Anticipated Books of 2021” (11.23.2020)

Girls with Bright Futures is a Columbia Review Magazine Staff Pick (11.22.2020)

POPSUGAR includes Girls with Bright Futures in their roundup of “42 Books Everyone Will be Talking About in 2021” (11.9.2020)

 

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