Ashley Poston Teases Her 2026 Summer season Romance Is Influenced by This Basic Novel (Unique)

Ashley Poston is trying to the classics for inspiration for her subsequent summer season romance!

Forward of the June 17 launch of her fourth grownup romance novel, Sounds Like Love, Poston spoke with PEOPLE about her partnership with Sonic for the launch of their summer season Sweet Topped Lemonades, which may even assist get books into the arms of kids throughout America through the nonprofit First Book. As well as, the creator additionally teased her subsequent summer season romance, which is anticipated to be launched in 2026.

Based on Poston, her fifth grownup romance learn will draw inspiration from a beloved basic youngsters’s novel. “My romance for subsequent summer season, which I can type of discuss … I can say it’s Secret Garden-esque,” she tells PEOPLE.

“I’m so excited,” the creator provides. “It’s going to have a while travel-ish components in it too, so I’m going again to The Seven Year Slip situations.”

Launched in 2023, Poston’s The Seven 12 months Slip is a New York Instances bestseller that follows Lemon and Iwan, unconventional roommates who share the identical residence regardless of being separated in time by seven years. The creator says she’s a giant fan of the time journey trope and is trying ahead to revisiting it once more.

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“It’s simply the dichotomy of like, who you’re versus who you have been, plus the particular person you like, versus who they’re and who they have been,” she explains.

Along with her new summer season romance, Poston teased that she’s truly engaged on three books in the meanwhile — however the different two are high secret for now. One factor she will be able to share is the entire particulars about her upcoming launch, Sounds Like Love.

“Sounds Like Love is a couple of burnout songwriter and a has-been musician who discover themselves inexplicably telepathically linked after they can’t get a tune out of their heads,” she explains. “And so I’m enjoying with the concept of telepathy and in addition how that pertains to intimacy and attending to know somebody, however I additionally discover burnout and what that’s like.”

“Burnout is a sizzling button matter proper now, nevertheless it’s additionally very prevalent as a result of it feels just like the dialog is shifting much less from, ‘Oh we’re artists doing this artistic endeavor’ to ‘we’re creators creating this content material,'” she provides. “And I really feel like that type of makes burnout tougher since you really feel like you must carry on making content material and you must carry on pushing ahead and pushing ahead.”

In crafting her newest story, The Dead Romantics creator explains she gave herself permission to decelerate a bit. She says the e book is “mainly me telling myself that it’s okay to decelerate and take a while and be nostalgic in regards to the issues that you just love — don’t simply hold trying ahead, you may go searching you, too.”

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Sounds Like Love comes out June 17 and is offered for preorder now, in all places books are offered.