Custom House Presents:

Julia Claiborne Johnson

on the publication of her dazzling new novel: 

Better Luck Next Time

Please join Julia in conversation with Steven Rowley

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

7PM ET/6PM CT/ 5PM MT/4PM PT

via Crowdcast

Tickets can be purchased through the partnering booksellers
Each book will be a signed first edition hardcover

Northshire Bookstore

East City Bookshop

Skylark Bookshop

Chevalier's Books

Julia Claiborne Johnson is the author of the bestselling Be Frank with Me, a finalist for the American Bookseller’s Association Best Debut Novel Award. She grew up on a farm in Tennessee before moving to New York City, where she worked at Mademoiselle and Glamour magazines. She now lives in Los Angeles with her comedy-writer husband and their two children.

@juliaclaibornej | @JuliaClaiborneJ

Steven Rowley is the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus, a Washington Post Notable Book of 2016 and The Editor, named by NPR and Esquire Magazine as one of the Best Books of 2019, and by O Magazine as one of the LGBT books changing the literary landscape. His new novel, The Guncle, arrives May 25th, 2021. Rowley’s fiction has been published in nineteen languages.

Lily and the Octopus is in development as a feature film at Amazon Studios. The Editor was optioned by Twentieth Century for director Greg Berlanti. Steven has worked as a freelance writer, newspaper columnist and screenwriter. Originally from Portland, Maine, he is a graduate of Emerson College. He currently resides in Palm Springs with his partner, the novelist Byron Lane.

www.stevenrowley.com