Media Kit: Josh and Gemma Make a Baby
Book Details
Book Author: Sarah Ready
Book Cover Art and Illustration: Elizabeth Turner Stokes
Book Interior Art: Sarah Ready
Audiobook Narrator: Erin Mallon
Book Publisher: W.W. Crown an Imprint of Swift and Lewis Publishing, LLC
Publisher Website: www.wwcrown.com
Author Website: www.sarahready.com
Author Social Media:
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Book Copyright: Sarah Ready 2021
Book Page Count: 366 pages
Book Available in: Paperback, Jacketed Hardcover, eBook, Large Print, and Audiobook
Book Category: Fiction: Romance; Fiction: Romantic Comedy; Fiction: Chicklit; Fiction: Women’s Fiction
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-954007-22-2
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-954007-19-2
eBook ISBN: 978-1-954007-18-5
Audiobook ISBN: 978-1-954007-31-4
About Josh and Gemma Make a Baby
Josh and Gemma Make a Baby is a nitty gritty, honest look at the awkwardness, hilarity, and heartbreak of going through IVF, and wanting a baby as a single, thirty-something woman in NYC. When writing, Sarah Ready wanted to bring to the forefront the real-life struggle that is so common for women and couples in today’s world, yet so rarely addressed honestly and accurately in books, movies and television. From finding a sperm donor, to ultrasounds, injections, and unexpected love, this book details the journey of a lifetime. What does it mean to be a woman in today’s world? A mother? Can we have self-determination of our destinies, including when and how to have a family? This book will make you laugh, cry, and then laugh again, as Josh and Gemma make a baby.
When a reader said she’d read Josh and Gemma Make a Baby while in labor at the hospital and then listened to the audiobook while cuddling her newborn, we knew the book was connecting with people in a big way.
Josh and Gemma Make a Baby is a poignant, hilarious romcom about the desire to have a baby, the hilarity and rawness of IVF, and finding love where you least expect it.
Selected for Apple Books Most Anticipated Romance of Winter 2022.
Audiobook narrated by five-time Audie Award nominee, and six-time Earphones Award winner Erin Mallon.
Back Cover Copy
New Year’s Resolution:
Have a baby
Preferably with Josh Lewenthal
Meet Gemma Jacobs. She’s driven, energetic, and a positive thinker. She has a great career working for famed self-help guru Ian Fortune, she lives in a cute studio apartment in Manhattan, and her family is supportive and loving (albeit a little kooky). Her life is perfect. Absolutely wonderful.
Except for one tiny little thing.
After a decade of disastrous relationships and an infertility diagnosis, Gemma doesn’t want a Mr. Right (or even a Mr. Right Now), she just wants a baby.
And all she needs is an egg, some sperm, and IVF.
So Gemma makes a New Year’s resolution: have a baby.
Josh Lewenthal is a laid back, relaxed, find-the-humor-in-life kind of guy. The polar opposite of Gemma. He’s also her brother’s best friend. For the past twenty years Josh has attended every Jacobs’ family birthday, holiday, and event – he’s always around.
Gemma knows him. He’s nice (enough), he’s funny (-ish), he’s healthy (she thinks) and he didn’t burn any ants with a magnifying glass as a kid. Which, in Gemma’s mind, makes him the perfect option for a sperm donor.
So Gemma wants to make a deal. An unemotional, businesslike arrangement. No commitments, just a baby.
To Gemma’s surprise, Josh agrees.
They have nothing in common, except their agreement to make a baby and their desire to keep things businesslike.
But the thing about baby-making…it’s hard to keep it businesslike, it’s nearly impossible to keep it unemotional, and it’s definitely impossible to keep your heart out of the mix. Because when you’re making a baby together, things have a way of starting to feel like you’re making other things too – like a life, and a family, and love. And when the baby-making ends, you wish that everything else didn’t have to end too.
