📣OFFICIAL COVER REVEAL via Elle magazine! #TheTrueConfessionsofFirstLadyFreeman

I invite you to judge my book by its cover! I adore it!

I wrote this novel--20 years in the making--while co-parenting two kids, navigating two divorces, surviving a pandemic, and becoming an empty-nester. I gave this "splendidly, unruly” book everything I’ve got. I hope you love it as much as I do!

Thank you to Lauren Puckett-Pope and Elle! Read the cover reveal article and interview:

So many hands, heads, and hearts helped to bring my idea for the cover to fruition. Many thanks to…

✍🏾My brilliant and fearless editor, Rakia Clark

🎨Painter extraordinaire, Carrie Graber

⚜️Deft designer, Yeon Kim

Mariner Books’ marketing and publicity wizards: Eliza Rosenberry, Tavia Kowalchuk, and Deanna Bailey

And as always, thanks to…

🕵️‍♀️my awesome agent, Danielle Chiotti

On sale 9.29.2026 - Pre-order: bit.ly/firstladyfreeman (includes links to Black-owned bookstores Loyalty Bookstores, Resist Booksellers, and Kindred Stories)