Starting as YA authors and shifting their powerhouse kingdom into adult, The Roughest Draft absolutely gives me The Hating Game vibes for a new generation, but sweeter.

“Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka are the dream team from heaven. If you have a case of winter blues, this is the novel to pick up.' - Buzzfeed There’s fire-hot tension and yearning and resentfulness and fights and steamy romance, but there’s also beauty in the way the story depicts the uncertainty of creative careers, working as a team, and individual growth. 'Wibberley and Siegemund-Broka deliver on what they’ve always done best: imperfect characters who you want to follow all the way to the end. “The Roughest Draft has it all: Romance, rumor, and intrigue, and you won’t want to put it down.” - Shondaland ' The Roughest Draft is a book about books, and a breathtaking meditation on the ways in which fiction can be a space to expose and write large our must vulnerable truths.Complex and achingly romantic, The Roughest Draft feels as if it's a palimpsest for Wibberley and Siegemund-Broka's most deeply held beliefs about writing and each other - a profound collective story inked out for all of us to find ourselves on its pages.' - Entertainment Weekly While passion and prose push them closer together in the Florida heat, Katrina and Nathan will learn that relationships, like writing, sometimes take a few rough drafts before they get it right. Working through the reasons they've hated each other for the past three years isn't easy, especially not while writing a romantic novel. The last thing they ever thought they'd do again is hole up in the tiny Florida town where they wrote their previous book, trying to finish a new manuscript quickly and painlessly.

They haven't spoken since, and never planned to, except they have one final book due on contract.įacing crossroads in their personal and professional lives, they're forced to reunite. But on the heels of their greatest success, they ended their partnership on bad terms, for reasons neither would divulge to the public. Three years ago, Katrina Freeling and Nathan Van Huysen were the brightest literary stars on the horizon, their cowritten book topping bestseller lists. They were cowriting literary darlings until they hit a plot hole that turned their lives upside down. The Nerd Daily’s Swoonworthy 2022 Releases Oprah Daily’s Most Anticipated Romances of 2022Į! News' Books to Add To Your Reading List in Januaryīookbub's Most Anticipated Romances of Winter Cosmopolitan's Best Romance Novels of 2022īuzzfeed, GMA.com, Shondaland, and Bustle's Best of January

The Roughest Draft by Emily Wibberley