Listen to an Exclusive Excerpt of In a New York Minute!
Forever35
Doree Shafrir & Elise Hu
4.7 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Hi everyone! Kate here. My debut novel, In a New York Minute, is out today, and to celebrate, I'm giving Forever35 listeners an exclusive listen to the first chapter of the audiobook. I am so grateful for the support listeners have shown me throughout the writing and book-releasing process, and I send you one million eggplant emojis as a token of my gratitude. But for now, please sit back, relax, and enjoy some rom-com vibes courtesy of me, your ol' pal Kate H. Spencer. You can find the full audiobook on Libro.fm, Audible, or any other place you listen to books. Check out the full synopsis below.
If you're in Los Angeles, come to my live event at Chevalier's on Weds, March 16th, at 7pm! I'll be in conversation with friend of the pod, Maurene Goo. And of course please join Doree and me for our virtual book launch celebration on Friday, March 18th. We'll be live in conversation at 8 PM EST/5 PM PST. Register here!
A clever, tender, and romantic "Nora Ephron romp for the modern ages" (Christina Lauren) for fans of Jasmine Guillory, Abby Jimenez, and Sophie Cousens, this laugh-out-loud debut is a perceptive reminder that fate can have a sense of humor and that love can happen...in a New York minute.
Franny Doyle is having the worst day. She’s been laid off from her (admittedly mediocre) job, the subway doors ripped her favorite silk dress to ruins, and now she’s flashed her unmentionables to half of lower Manhattan. On the plus side, a dashing stranger came to her rescue with his (Gucci!) suit jacket. On the not-so-plus side, he can’t get away from her fast enough.
Worse yet? Someone posted their (entirely not) meet-cute online. Suddenly Franny and her knight-in-couture, Hayes Montgomery III, are the newest social media sensation, and all of New York is shipping #SubwayQTs.
Only Franny and Hayes couldn’t be a more disastrous match. She’s fanciful, talkative, and creative. He’s serious, shy, and all about numbers. Luckily, in a city of eight million people, they never have to meet again. Yet somehow, Hayes and Franny keep running into each other - and much to their surprise, they enjoy each other’s company. A lot. But when Franny’s whole world is turned upside down (again!), can she find the courage to trust in herself and finally have the life - and love - she’s always wanted?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, it's your friendly forever 35 co-host Kate Spencer here. Bringing you something |
| 0:07.8 | a little different today. This is in addition to all the episodes we are releasing this week. |
| 0:13.1 | I am here to share the first chapter of my new book in a New York Minute. It comes out today, |
| 0:21.5 | March 15th, and you all have been so incredibly supportive of me throughout this book writing and |
| 0:27.8 | book releasing process. I'm so grateful to the Forever 35 listener community. |
| 0:33.6 | And so I'm so excited to be able to get to share the full first chapter of the audiobook. It is |
| 0:41.4 | narrated by two incredible voice actors, and you can find it anywhere you listen to audiobooks, |
| 0:48.7 | like Libro FM, Audible, or again, anywhere you might get an audiobook in a New York Minute will |
| 0:54.8 | be there. You can also, of course, order the actual book anywhere you buy books, and I really |
| 1:00.8 | appreciate you checking out your independent bookstores or, of course, your libraries. Anyway, |
| 1:06.7 | thank you all so much for your support, and I really hope you enjoy the first chapter of in a New |
| 1:12.8 | York Minute. No one plans on getting laid off when they wake up in the morning. No one sips their |
| 1:21.4 | first drop of coffee and thinks, today s the day, 15 minutes into checking my morning email and |
| 1:27.4 | drafting a reply to that pain in the ass client Melinda, that I'll get a notification and slack |
| 1:32.8 | telling me to head down to the main conference room for an important chat. No one imagines that |
| 1:38.8 | the super successful interior design start up they work for. You know, the one that had a massive |
| 1:44.8 | hiring blitz four years ago keeps fridges full of organic cult press juices as bean bag chairs |
| 1:51.1 | and all the conference rooms and hosts weekly rooftop happy hours will lay off half their staff |
| 1:57.2 | in a matter of 45 minutes. No one dares to consider that the venture capitalist money that it poured |
| 2:03.7 | in so much endless cash that it had installed an overblown sense of possibility and security |
| 2:10.7 | and allowed the 26 year old founder to increase staff from 27 to 74 people over just the last year |
| 2:18.0 | and by a chari read mazerotti along the way would be mismanaged by the team at the top and |
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