Wendy Hudson, the proprietor of Nantucket Guide Companions, mentioned that, over the course of the ultimate two Bucket Listing Weekends, clients bought round 350 copies of Hilderbrand’s novels. A formidable quantity, but it surely gained’t add as much as a fortune for the writer.
For the report: “I don’t receives a commission a penny,” Hilderbrand mentioned of the Bucket Listing Weekend. “That is simply one thing I do for a) Nantucket b) the readers. I get the e book gross sales but it surely’s not a giant book-selling factor as a result of everyone’s already learn every part.”
Many Hilderbabes mentioned that the head of the extravaganza was the Saturday evening dance celebration on the Hen Field, a dive bar that seems within the Hilderbrand oeuvre. (P.S. They don’t promote rooster.) It was understood amongst Bucket Listing attendees that Nantucket males have been identified to indicate up particularly for “Cougar Weekend”; certainly, there have been a lot of male spectators on the bar when a strobe-lit crowd of ladies, together with Hilderbrand, rocked out to “Jessie’s Lady.”
However there was an alternate pressure of Hilderbabe, one who knew that the introverted streak making her ears burn with mortification on the dance flooring was additionally what made her a reader. She hopped the primary shuttle again to city, and the head of her Bucket Listing expertise was a late-night stroll between Nantucket Bookworks and Mitchell’s Guide Nook, solely three blocks aside. The streets had been darkish and the cobblestones had been treacherous however each store home windows had heat spotlights on the true stars of the weekend: Hilderbrand’s novels.
Seeing them there — so many of them, dealing with the island the place they had been born — it was not possible to not surprise what Hilderbrand will do after “The 5-Star Weekend” comes out on June thirteenth, adopted by “Swan Music” in 2024.
First, she plans to jot down two novels, set at boarding college, along with her daughter who’s 17.
Then, like Taylor Swift between “1989” and “Status,” Hilderbrand plans to lie low for some time. “I actually would really like one whole yr after I’m not touring, not writing,” she mentioned. “Only one yr.”
Supply: NY Times
