John Searles

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from our little family to yours ⛄️⛄️🎅❄️🍾🎄🎅🤶🎊

You know your relationship has reached a whole new level of intimacy when you start dressing alike. (With the wonderful Marilu Henner…come see her in MADWOMEN OF THE WEST!)

You think I write these books myself? 😂

Thomas is directing this hilarious and poignant new play starring Marilu Henner, Caroline Aaron, Melanie Mayron and Brooke Adams. If u r in nyc we hope to see you at the show!!!

Boo!! HAPPY HALLOWEEN to all my favorite readers and book clubs 🎃👻😱🎃👻🎃😱

I did not order the dish with the ANTS…would you???

A walk around the West Village with Ruby takes about 5 1/2 hours this month, since we have to take her picture in front of every decorated brownstone we pass. HAPPY HALLOWEEN SEASON EVERYONE!!

GIVEAWAY ALERT! Enter to win a nice big batch of sizzling summer reads by me and these TEN other authors: Stacey Abrams, Fiona Davis, Viola Shipman , Susan Mallery, Debbie Macomber, Center, Karin Slaughter, Elle Cosimano & Julia Whelan. One lucky winner will get these eleven current books, PLUS an Advance Reader Copy of the forthcoming BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CHRISTMAS in which Thomas, Ruby and I have cameos as characters!! (Coming from St. Martin's Press 9/26!). Entry deadline: Thurs 7/13/23. One winner of all 12 books will be chosen at random and announced on Fri 7/14/23. Good luck! DETAILS & ENTRY FORM HERE: https://bit.ly/SizzlingSummer23

WHO WANTS TO WIN A BIG BOX OF SUMMER BOOKS? Head over to my Instagram and follow me there for details on how to enter the contest 🌞🕶️📚⛱️🏖️👙☀️🏝️

Wow! Such happy news to be nominated for a Strand Critics Award. Incredible company and stiff competition for Best Novel. Congratulations to my fellow nominees!!

HAPPY SUMMER READING
EVERYONE!! 😎😎👙👙🍉🍉😎😊

What to read: Summer book picks for 2023 John Searles, author of “Strange But True,” which was turned into a movie, shares his summer reading picks, including some light beach reads, a book perfect for Father’s Day and more!

I celebrated my birthday this week with the incredible team at the TODAY SHOW who made me feel so loved. When I saw the giant wall of my book covers I was in a happy, speechless shock!! I realized recently that I’ve been a small part of this big show for…gulp…22 years now! What an honor it’s been as a writer and book lover to champion authors and books for such a giant audience… thank you to readers and book clubs and everyone at the show and especially to my husband who practices with me before my segments so I don’t mess up! 😂😊❤️😊❤️

No filter… view up 9th Avenue in NYC today at 1:48 PM

Did you know there’s such a thing as National Drive-In Movie Day? Well there is and it’s today! My novel HER LAST AFFAIR is out in paperback now… a suspenseful and creepy love story set at an old drive-in movie theater! (**Also I’ll be on NBC’s TODAY SHOW this Thursday morning talking about my favorite summer books! See you there!) 😊

John Searles Author. New novel HER LAST AFFAIR out now!...STRANGE BUT TRUE streaming on HBO Max

Happy National Independent Bookstore Day!!! Thank you to so many of my favorites around the country who support writers like me and hand-sell HER LAST AFFAIR, HELP FOR THE HAUNTED, STRANGE BUT TRUE, etc 📚Support your local independent bookstores!

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Happy Birthday Ruby …and happy spring from NYC everybody! 🌸🌼🌷🌺🌸

HAPPY PAPERBACK PUBLICATION DAY TO HER LAST AFFAIR… Set at an abandoned drive-in movie theater… the book tells the story of three desperate characters all reconnecting with a lost love/person from the their past 🐩🐩🎟️🎟️🎟️🍿🍿🍿🎥🎥🎥📽️📽️📽️💉💉💉💕💕💕

Thank you to my hometown Edith Wheeler Memorial Library and Turning the Page for a fun celebration of the paperback release of HER LAST AFFAIR. It made me happy to see so many friends, classmates and family… I hope you’ll read the book and love it ! ❤️❤️❤️

We are about to hit the road for a celebration of the paperback release of HER LAST AFFAIR… hope to see you tomorrow 3/26 at 2:30 at my hometown library Edith Wheeler Memorial Library 🍿🍿🍿🐩🐩🐩💉💉💉🎟️🎟️💊💊🎟️📽️📽️📽️🐩🐩🍿

The “Kiss Me, Kill Me Book Club” has a great name and a warm and wonderful group of readers!! We discussed the paperback of HER LAST AFFAIR out next week 🍿🐩💉🎥🍿🎟️

Hello Connecticut Friends & Readers… I’ll be at my hometown library later this month to celebrate the paperback release of HER LAST AFFAIR!!! Hope to see you there! 😊❤️😊

They came to interview me but someone else stole the show. She’s way more poised and articulate anyway.

Happy Valentine’s Day! No flowers or chocolates this year… just really good Cuban coffees ❤️❤️

I know everyone is watching the Super Bowl but (don’t make fun of me) I never really follow or understand football… or Rihanna either ha… so we took a fun boat ride instead 😊😊 Thank you to our friends Deborah and Chuck for the fun invitation… ❤️❤️❤️

Merry Christmas and Happy Everything to everyone … Thanks to family, friends, librarians, readers and my beloved book clubs for cheering for my books and writing this last year. I’m grateful to you all!! 🎁⛄️❄️🎄🤶🎅🎁🎄☃️☃️❄️🎄🎁🎅🎅⛄️🎄🎁

So honored that HER LAST AFFAIR made critic Oline Cogdill’s BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR list 😊 🐩🎟🍿🍿🎥🎞🎬📽

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/entertainment/theater-and-arts/books/fl-et-liststory-best-mystery-books-2022-20221206-eb5yucxajvarfm36b3nqhd3ree-htmlstory.html

To walk into a bookstore in beautiful Rome and see an Italian translation of a book I wrote on the shelf … well, what a happy dream!! Also a dream: the pastas, pizzas, people, beauty, history and joy we experience here in this glorious country 🇮🇹😊❤️

Thank you CNN and entertainment reporter Chloe Melas for having me on for a fun chat about HER LAST AFFAIR! I’ll let you all know when more of our interview airs 😊😊🍿🍿🐩🐩🎥🎥🎟💉🔑🎟🎟💉🐩🎥

https://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2022/10/21/halloween-movies-and-tv-shows.hln

John Searles

Excited to announce that I’m taking over Anderson Cooper’s spot on CNN. Hope you’ll all tune into my new show. (Really I just did a fun interview with the network’s great entertainment reporter Chloe Melas about HER LAST AFFAIR to air soon!) 😊