The release date for the English version of 'Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry' by
Joya Goffney is May 2021. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Joya Goffney, a rookie author, tells the tale of an overly eager list maker who is blackmailed into finishing a to-do list that includes all of her biggest nightmares in Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry. It's a modern YA high school romance with epistolary components that is heartfelt and painful. Readers who enjoy Jenny Han's To All the Boys I've Loved Before and Kristina Forest's first novel I Wanna Be Where You Are will find great pleasure in the sensual secrets, intense sexual tension, and antagonist-to-love romantic plot.
Quinn maintains lists of everything, including all the boys she wants to kiss, "Things That I Would Never Admit Out Loud," and the days she's ugly-cried. Lists help her stay sane. She never has to confront her worries in real life because she writes them down. That is, until her missing journal appears.
One of her lists is uploaded to Instagram by an unknown user, who threatens to make her whole journal public until she faces seven of her biggest fears. Quinn is unsure of whom to believe. In a desperate attempt to find the blackmailer, she links up with Carter Bennett, the last person known to possess her journal, in a race against time.
Along the way, Quinn finds the strength to be honest, to live in the moment, and to fall in love as they go through everything Quinn had been too terrified to face.