THE YEAR OF THE GADFLY is now available in paperback, and just in time, because author Jennifer Miller is looking to set a world record: in the month of July, she will visit 100 book clubs in just 30 days

Is this crazy? Absolutely. Can she do it? Yes! But she needs your help.

WHO: Any five (or more!) friends who read The Year of the Gadlfy constitutes a book club.

WHEN: 30 minutes on Skype during evenings & lunch-hours in July.

GET FREE STUFF!   

• One FREE copy of The Year of the Gadfly

• Signed book plates

• An official mention on RecordSetter.com

• Entry into the “Prep School Pack” giveaway. (Jennifer’s favorite prep school novels, movies, and after school snacks)

She’s almost reached her goal, so help her get there!

Email Jennifer to sign up.

togatherinc:

We’ve already gushed a bit about our excitement for novelist Jennifer Miller’s mission to set a world record by meeting with 100 book clubs in a single month. It’s definitely ambitious, and maybe a little bit nuts, but she’s already almost halfway to her goal!

Our team tallied up the count this morning and we’re blown away by the progress she’s made in just a few short weeks. With a few local events on the East coast, and a bunch of video chats with groups in other areas of the country, we’re seeing supporters pop up all over the map — in Nashville, Plano, Duxbury and Richmond, to name a few cities, as well as right here in Brooklyn. 

And to be honest, we shouldn’t be surprised. Jen pulled off some creative (and thrifty!) book promo stunts when The Year of The Gadfly came out in hardcover last year, including selling copies of her book and giving away free cookies at novelade stands on the sidewalks of New York City.

If your book club, library, local bookstore, friends, colleagues, neighbors, classmates, cousins, aunts, etc. want to go down in history as record-setting legends, let us know. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is even giving away one free signed copy of the book to each group that signs up! Just check out Jen’s page on Togather or contact us directly for more info and availability: taylor [at] togather [dot] com.

Jennifer Miller, author of THE YEAR OF THE GADFLY, is on her way to a world record and needs your help!

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Jennifer Miller, author of THE YEAR OF THE GADFLY, which Oprah called “engrossing” at her grownup lemonade stand this weekend. What’s she selling? Oh, her novel. 

Jennifer Miller, author of THE YEAR OF THE GADFLY, which Oprah called “engrossing” at her grownup lemonade stand this weekend. What’s she selling? Oh, her novel. 

THE YEAR OF THE GADFLY by Jennifer Miller. Book trailer starring Brian Williams, Dan Rather, Christiane Amanpour, and more. 

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Jennifer Miller’s dynamite debut, THE YEAR OF THE GADFLY, in which a budding teenage journalist at an elite prep school and her enigmatic science teacher each separately attempt to track down a secret society that may hold damning evidence about a shadowy tragedy in the school’s—and the teacher’s—past.
An exhilarating journey of double-crosses, long-buried secrets, and all the charge of adolescence, THE YEAR OF THE GADFLY follows in the footsteps of classic school novels like Prep and The Secret History, and reminding us how these years haunt our lives forever.

Read an excerpt. Watch the star-studded book trailer. 

Follow Jen on Twitter!

Available TODAY!

Jennifer Miller’s dynamite debut, THE YEAR OF THE GADFLY, in which a budding teenage journalist at an elite prep school and her enigmatic science teacher each separately attempt to track down a secret society that may hold damning evidence about a shadowy tragedy in the school’s—and the teacher’s—past.

An exhilarating journey of double-crosses, long-buried secrets, and all the charge of adolescence, THE YEAR OF THE GADFLY follows in the footsteps of classic school novels like Prep and The Secret History, and reminding us how these years haunt our lives forever.

Read an excerpt. Watch the star-studded book trailer

Follow Jen on Twitter!

"[Pauls] Toutonghi wrote both books in the first person. And yet, he considers this less than a complete success: ‘I was reading Dickens,’ he wrote in a recent essay for Salon, ‘who kept himself away from the page…and I can’t help wondering if anything is lost in the frank disclosures of our modern, first-person, memoir-driven fiction.’

This is perhaps the greatest hang-up of the modern novelist — that fiction is somehow unsophisticated or inherently cliché if it is rooted in the writer’s own life, and that writers should be creative enough to invent entirely new worlds and find drama only in the unfamiliar."

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The trailer for THE YEAR OF THE GADFLY by Jennifer Miller is a who’s who of journalism, starring Brian Williams, Christiane Amanpour, Dan Rather, Andrea Mitchell, Gary Shteyngart masquerading as press, and more, oh so many more. 

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Somehow this weekend I found myself with a million books going, hopefully I can narrow it down again this week.

To finish (already started):

The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers (print)
The Object of My Affections by Jill Smoleski
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
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