March 2022: Laura Brown at Park Row Books has acquired THE FICTION WRITER in a pre-empt, pitched as THE PLOT meets THE CHRISTIE AFFAIR, in which a fiction writer is hired by a handsome billionaire to write about a stunning family secret—that Daphne du Maurier plagiarized REBECCA from his grandmother—leading her to question the boundaries of creative freedom. Forthcoming in 2023.
March 2021: HALF LIFE is an Amazon Best of the Month in Literature and Fiction!
February 2020: Sarah Stein at Harper Perennial has acquired BEAUTIFUL LITTLE FOOLS, pitched as BIG LITTLE LIES meets THE GREAT GATSBY, a reimagining of the classic novel that delves into the women's stories, told in their alternating points of view, and taking place before, during and after the original novel, as a detective investigates the three women whose lives were entangled with Jay Gatsby's. Forthcoming January 2022.
September 2019: Sarah Stein at Harper Perennial has acquired Jillian’s next historical adult novel, HALF LIFE, a fictionalization of the life of Marie Curie told in two timelines, examining how one choice could completely change not only the course of her life, but that of science, history, and the world. Forthcoming in early 2021.
May 2019: Lauren Smulski at Inkyard Press has acquired Jillian’s YA contemporary novel, THE CODE FOR LOVE AND HEARTBREAK, a modern day retelling of Jane Austen’s Emma. Forthcoming in Fall 2020.
May 2018: THE LOST LETTER (La Vie Secrète d'Elena Faber) is short-listed for the Voyageurs Lecteurs Prize in France!
March 2018: Jillian's next book is announced! IN ANOTHER TIME, the braided tale of a young Jewish and German couple, alternating between the days leading up to WWII and ten years after, exploring the themes of love and survival, passion and music, and one woman's journey to discover her forgotten past and the fate of the man she loved, to Laura Brown at Harper Perennial, at auction, by Jessica Regel at Foundry Literary + Media.