COMING FALL 2026
I’ve thought a lot about what dying is like over my thirty-eight years. Not obsessively, but probably more than the average person. It’s understandable, given the childhood I had …
Hope Lawton has spent the past twenty-five years trying to move on from the shame and guilt over her role in her mother’s death when she was thirteen.
She’s worked hard to keep this secret from everyone she cares about while building the perfect life and family. But when her husband leaves her for his kindergarten sweetheart, she’s forced into a new life that doesn’t fit, just like her jeans, her job, and a new house that smells nothing like home.
As she juggles her feelings of failure, her boys’ sadness and anger, and uncertainty about her job, her dad’s health worsens. Desperate to prove she’s nothing like her mom, Hope vows to finally take control of her life by embarking on a Total Life Makeover. Soon, she’s welcoming a new friendship, pants that look good and let her breathe, and a blossoming romance from an online dating app. This new life isn’t the perfect life she had planned, but it’s perfect-ish.
Until she receives an email that forces her to question everything she’s believed to be true.
“Nothing is too private, too embarrassing or too heart-wrenching for Heather LeRoss to share. Honesty with lots of humor make Just Tell Me I’m Pretty a book to read again and again.”
- Jen Mann
New York Times Bestselling Author of "Working with People I want to Punch in the Throat"
“LeRoss brings you into the heart of her world with fearless, relatable honesty, affirming that despite all your bumblings and failures, the one thing you are not, is alone.”
- Kristen Mae
Best Selling Author of "Red Water"
“LeRoss is both stressed and pressed by parenting: Kids and her parents. Her survival strategy includes hiding in the laundry room from her boys and playing guessing games with her mom—who might be stoned. Her confessions of imperfection are the perfect balance between heartfelt and hilarious.”
- DC Stanfa
Author of "The Art of Table Dancing: Escapades of an Irreverent Woman"
Meet the Author, Heather LeRoss…
I’m known for embarrassing myself in most social situations, oversharing with strangers, and eating too much sugar, then wondering why my pants no longer fit.
My passions are writing stories I hope people will enjoy, reading good books, cooking food no one in my house will eat because “Why is there so much green?!” and sleeping. I’m also very into cardio, which I get while worrying at 3 am. I also get a workout when I perform improv and, soon, stand-up, because I like to do ALL the things nightmares are made of.
I’m a mom to grown men who still like to hug me, a dog mom to Teddy, the cutest Cavalier on earth, a wife to Brad, who prefers to remain anonymous, and a friend to anyone who will talk to me.
You can follow me on Instagram at @heather_lerossauthor, and someday, I might take on TikTok and become cool.
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