Thank you

Times like, a hundred bajillion

Hello my friends,

Last year on Thanksgiving, I was new to promoting Passion Project, all full of jitters and angst as I rounded the corner into debut year. It was a peaceful yet stressful time—the calm before the storm. And if you know me, you know I can stress out with the best of them. So I took a moment on my newsletter to list everything I was grateful for, to remind myself that leading with gratitude is a really great antidote to anxiety. It’s my magic trick, honestly, and it works like a charm.

So here it is—the second annual London Is Thankful for This List:

• Greta Gerwig’s Little Women

• Glen Powell with scruff

• Historical Romance

• Passion Project being a member fave for December on Book of the Month Club

• Stadium Hot Dogs

• Ariana’s press tour outfits as Glinda

• Sauvignon Blanc

• Bennet & Henry

• Teddi & Reid

• All of the author friends I met this year

• Candle warmers

• Knowing you all won’t judge me when you notice that I changed the name of this newsletter

• Space heaters

• Re-falling in love with the theater from a seat in the audience

• Making soup on Sundays

• Soft serve ice cream with rainbow sprinkles

• Old Navy button-ups

• NYC during Christmas time

• Getting to share a whole new story with you soon (!!!)

• Weird shoes (iykyk)

• Having new ideas that feel like new beginnings

• Being home for the holidays

• The MET statue room

• Hitting 30k ratings for PP on Goodreads the day before Thanksgiving (this is literally unreal)

• Black Friday deals on items that have been in my cart all year

• Finally having time to unwind with my TBR

• The People We Meet on Vacation movie (If this is a flop I will cry)

• Getting to meet so many readers in 2025

• The best friends and family in the world

• Learning to trust the process

• Girls trips

• Supper club

• Watching my friends enter new phases of life

• Jacob Elordi as Frankenstein’s creature

• Self dinner dates

• Discovering living, breathing proof that dreams come true

I say this often, but it’s only because I mean it—I am a well of gratitude and I don’t think I will ever find the bottom. To any person who has picked up a copy of Passion Project: you have changed my outlook on life and the story I tell about myself. It’s a gift I will cherish forever.

Enjoy your holiday, whether you’re celebrating Thanksgiving or just cozying in with a soft blanket and a cup of tea. I, personally, will be seeing Wicked Part 2, and then I will be slipping peacefully into a food coma which I don’t expect to wake up from until December.

Till then.

Your long-winded friend,
London

P.S. Care for some book recs?

• Female Fantasy by Iman Hariri-Kia for 33% contemporary romance, 33% romantasy, 33% adventure romance, and 100% love letter to romance readers and book boyfriends everywhere.

• I’ll Get Back to You by Becca Grischow for a heartfelt sapphic romance set during Thanksgiving in a small town outside of Chicago featuring a girl who may or may not have her sh*t together and who may or may not be terrible at accounting

• The Christmas Orphans Club by Becca Freeman for a warm and cozy holiday friendship story set against the backdrop of NYC during Christmas that will warm you from the inside out like a great cup of cocoa