The new Onward Book Club pick is

Glory Edim’s GATHER ME: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me!

If you haven’t yet read this wholly original, beautiful debut memoir, I’m excited for you to get your hands on a copy & meet Glory and me on Instagram for a live conversation on 12/4 at 7:00 ET!

I just found out that ALL THE WAY TO THE RIVER is an instant New York Times bestseller. Thank you, from the very bottom of my heart, from the very bottom of my soul. Sharing Rayya with you has been the greatest honor of my life.

OH MY LORD!! Surprise! All the Way to the River is Oprah's September Book Club pick! I had such a wonderful time talking to the iconic pairing of Gayle King and Oprah this morning. At this moment, with this generous gift, I feel that the book has officially launched. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Suddenly it’s just one week until All the Way to the River hits shelves. I wrote this book for me, in memory of Rayya -- but also for all of us who have ever felt lost in love, lost in addiction, who realize one day that we no longer recognize ourselves, that we're wearing someone else's life.

In just a little under a month All the Way to the River will be released into the big, wide world. And with it, so many pieces of my heart, my soul, my Rayya will be in your hands. I can’t wait for you to hold this story with us 🙏🏻

New dates added!

You can find all ticket info at elizabethgilbert.com/tour and at the Linktree in my bio. ♥️ LG

Who is your “all the way to the river” person?

I’m going on tour! Once my new book ALL THE WAY TO THE RIVER is released in September I’ll be doing events across the country and I’m hoping you’ll join me!

For information & tickets, you can visit my website at elizabethgilbert.com/tour, or click the link in my bio.

See you soooon, dear ones! ♥️LG

Today would have been (still is? always will be? how does time even work?) Rayya’s birthday. On the day she died, back in 2018, I wrote this about her on social media:

“When serenity is either unavailable or unattainable, only drama and boredom will ever be on the menu.”
From ALL THE WAY TO THE RIVER
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❤️LG

Hello, Vancouver! I am popping in to let you know that I'll be teaching a weekend-long creativity workshop on May 24-25 in your beautiful city. You can find all the details at the link in my bio, and I hope to see you there!

NEW DATE: Our next Onward Book Club meeting has been changed to Tuesday, March 4th at 7 pm ET on Instagram live.

I'll have the honor of talking with Tara Roberts, author of WRITTEN IN THE WATERS: A Memoir of History, Home, and Belonging about this spectacular debut. And we'll discuss her work as a

Home at last after a wonderful tour through Australia and New Zealand! Thank you for blue skies and great coffee, for wallabies and parakeets, for stunning beaches and soaring mountains. Thank you for brilliant cities, old friends, new adventures, and the best apricot marmalade I’ve ever had.

Thank you, Emily McDowell, the multitalented artist and my friend, for joining us this week over on Substack and for this essential reminder. Let us always strive to return ourselves to our original factory settings!

Today I’m thrilled to announce our next selection for the Onward Book Club, and as it happens, today is its publication day!

The book is WRITTEN IN THE WATERS, by the extraordinary Tara Roberts and I can’t wait for you to get your hands on it.

Sunshine! Beaches! Snake warnings! Incredible coffee! Large parrots with pink under-bits just walking across the road? (“Ya bloody galah!")

This can only mean one thing!

I’m in Australia!!!

Looking forward to touring Australia and New Zealand for the next few weeks!

Dear Ones! If you were browsing @people.com earlier today then you already saw a very special announcement – but if not, I have big news.
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If you'll be in or near Australia or Auckland in February and enjoy exploring creativity and fear, purpose anxiety, mercy and self-love (all the good stuff!), well have I got news for you!
www.elizabethgilbert.com/tour/

Hello Bluesky! I am new here.

And today I'd like to share a song that my friend Callie Miles and I wrote and my friend Barb Morrison produced. It's called "Snow Angel" and you can read about it and listen to it --
and watch a magical original video that Lennnie the blob created for it! -- here: