Announcing...I Love You, Charlie Tanner

My third novel and 12th book launches June 12, 2025 + Goodreads Giveaways for 2 books!

📚COVER REVEAL!!!! 📚

I’m so excited to share the cover for my third novel and 12th book, I LOVE YOU, CHARLIE TANNER, which will be out June 12th!

💋This steamy, suspenseful story includes second-chance romance, a hot rabbi, a midlife woman leaving a cult-like community and finding solace and energy in the garden. 🌾🌻🌽🍆🍑🍅🌿 There are Michigan, Maine, Vermont and Cape Breton landscapes, Jewish 🔯 identity, a murder ☠️ and so many secrets!!

Themes in I Love You, Charlie Tanner

• Strong, complex female protagonist

• Second-chance romance

• Small town living

• Healing family ties

• Gardening + love of nature

• Hot rabbi

• Escaping toxic relationships & cult-like community

Early reviewers liken it to Where the Crawdads Sing and call it “haunting, powerful and intimate.” I can’t wait to share Charlie Tanner’s story of redemption and second chances with you!!

Pre-orders are now available here.

Launch events

Virtual Launch: June 12, 2025, 12 p.m.—Register here

In-Person Launch Party: June 12, 2025, 7 p.m. in metro Detroit—Details to come soon!

Goodreads Giveaways

Through March 21st, you can enter two giveaways I’m offering on Goodreads—100 copies each of my second novel, CAVE OF SECRETS, and my essay collection, FOREST WALK ON A FRIDAY.

Thanks for reading this extra issue of A Look in the Mirror, the twice-monthly newsletter on Substack by author, writing coach, and marketing expert Lynne Golodner. I’ll see you next on April 1st with fresh writing about identity, belonging, community and creativity. If you like what you read here, please consider becoming a paid subscriber to support a working writer! And share these words with others who might find them useful or uplifting. I always love to hear from my readers! With love, Lynne