Jen Frederick, in the recently released Heart and Seoul(Berkley), sends her protagonist on a journey that’s as much a homecoming as it is an adventure: Hara Wilson, a Korean adoptee living in Indiana, heads to Seoul in search of her birth parents. “Though I couldn’t get out of my office and watched the seasons change from my window, I was able to travel through writing this book. “As I was writing, my homework was watching Keanu’s movies-not the worst work-and looking for some fantastic destinations for my protagonists to go and chase him,” Jackson says. The movies have since been pushed back and now have different release dates, but Jackson followed through on her off-the-cuff tweet: in How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days (Forever, Nov.), a Keanu superfan and her best guy friend embark on a madcap cross-country road trip to stop the actor’s wedding. (side note to self: write that because it sounds terrific!).” Unless of course it’s that How to Marry Keanu in 90 days rom-com you just thought of then go ahead and release that. Jackson learned that The Matrix 4 and John Wick 4 were both scheduled to release on the same day in 2021, she tweeted, “Note to self & editors: don’t release your book around #KeanuDay in 2021. Romance novels have always offered a portal to lands unknown or far away, and after a year plus of groundings and lockdowns, a number of forthcoming novels lean into this escapism.
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