CHICAGO, March 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- E L James, #1
New York Times bestselling
author of the global blockbuster Fifty Shades of Grey
trilogy (150 million copies sold worldwide) will release her newest
novel, FREED, the highly anticipated conclusion to her
Fifty Shades Trilogy as Told by Christian, on June 1, 2021. The announcement was made today by
Dominique Raccah, Publisher and CEO of Sourcebooks. The book
has been edited by Anne Messitte,
who has worked closely with James since the earliest days of the
Fifty Shades phenomenon.
In FREED, Christian Grey
and Anastasia Steele tie the
knot––but marriage brings its own challenges. Though their passion
burns hotter and deeper than ever, Ana's defiant spirit continues
to stir Christian's darkest fears and tests his need for control.
As old rivalries and resentments endanger them both, one
misjudgment threatens to tear them apart.
E L James shared, "I am thrilled to announce the publication
date for Freed." She continued, "This story has been a
labour of love, one that my readers have been eagerly awaiting. For
me, just as for Anastasia Steele,
Christian is a challenging, infuriating, and endlessly fascinating
character. Living in his head is exhausting, but I got to explore
aspects of his life in Freed that we only glimpsed in the
original trilogy, and to follow his emotional growth in response to
Ana's love and compassion."
FREED will be published simultaneously by the Bloom
Books imprint of Sourcebooks and Penguin Random House UK (UK and
Commonwealth Rights, excluding Canada). Audiobooks, in all formats, will
be distributed via Penguin Random House Audio.
E L James is represented by Valerie
Hoskins of VHA Ltd in London. Foreign rights are handled by ILA in
London.
PLEASE NOTE: Author photo available upon request. Cover art to
be revealed.
ABOUT E L JAMES: E L James is an incurable romantic and a
self-confessed fangirl. After twenty-five years of working in
television, she decided to pursue a childhood dream and write
stories that readers could take to their hearts. The result was the
controversial and sensuous romance Fifty Shades of Grey and
its two sequels, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades
Freed. In 2015, she published the #1 bestseller Grey,
the story of Fifty Shades of Grey from the perspective of
Christian Grey, and in 2017, the
chart-topping Darker, the second part of the Fifty Shades
story from Christian's point of view. She followed with the #1
New York Times bestseller,
The Mister in 2019. Her books have been published in fifty
languages and have sold more than 165 million copies
worldwide.
E L James has been recognized as one of Time magazine's
"Most Influential People in the World" and Publishers
Weekly's "Person of the Year." Fifty Shades of Grey
stayed on The New York Times
bestseller list for 133 consecutive weeks. Fifty Shades
Freed won the Goodreads Choice Award (2012), and Fifty
Shades of Grey was selected as one of the 100 Great Reads, as
voted by readers, in PBS's The Great American Read (2018).
Darker was long-listed for the 2019 International
DUBLIN Literary Award.
She was a producer on each of the three Fifty Shades movies,
which made more than a billion dollars at the box office. The third
installment, Fifty Shades Freed, won the People's Choice
Award for Drama in 2018. E L James is blessed with two wonderful
sons and lives with her husband, the novelist and screenwriter
Niall Leonard, and their West
Highland terriers in the leafy suburbs of West London.
ABOUT SOURCEBOOKS: Sourcebooks is a thriving entrepreneurial
company that brings extraordinary authors to readers in the most
dynamic, data-driven ways. We create books that transcend
categories and defy odds, and we have been honored with hundreds of
national bestsellers and awards. We are a company of enthusiastic
book-lovers passionate about connecting books to readers in new and
innovative ways. Story by story, book by book, we have touched over
100 million lives. Join us as we change 100 million more. Visit
sourcebooks.com for more information.
FREED: Fifty Shades Darker as Told by
Christian
By E L James
Publication date: June 1, 2021
PRESS CONTACT:
Pamela Jaffee
Sr. Director of Publicity and Brand Marketing
Sourcebooks
Pamela.Jaffee@sourcebooks.com
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