Rachel Lindsay

A candid, witty, and inspiring collection of essays from The Bachelor's first Black Bachelorette, exploring everything from relationships and love to politics and race. Extra correspondent and Higher Learning co-host Rachel Lindsay originally rose to prominence as the first Black Bachelorette and has since become one of the franchise's most well-known figures. For the first time, Rachel opens up about what it meant to be the first Black lead on ABC's hit show and reveals everything about her life off-camera, from her childhood growing up in Dallas, Texas, as the daughter of a U.S. District Judge to her disastrous dating life prior to going on The Bachelor, to her career in law, her evolving female friendships, and her decision to become a reality TV contestant. She also brings her sharp wit and keen intellect to weigh in on issues such as the lack of diversity in reality television and the importance of political engagement, protest, voting, and the Black Lives Matter movement. Told in the down-to-earth, no-nonsense voice she's become known for, Lindsay's collection will provide an intimate look at the life of one of reality TV's most beloved and outspoken stars, as well as advice and inspiration that will make her a role model for anyone who has ever tried to make sense of love and life and lost their way trying to do so.

Hot Takes, Helpful Tidbits, and a Few Hard Truths

Miss Me with That

A road not taken on a reality dating show leads one young woman to question her life choices—and whether or not she’s brave enough to change them—in the debut novel from the Bachelorette star and author of Miss Me with That Maya Johnson lives her life according to The Plan. The Plan is to become the youngest female director her company has ever had, to marry her college sweetheart, and to build a fabulous life in Miami. And seeing as she’s on the verge of checking every last one of those items off her list, she doesn’t feel the need to go on the nationally beloved reality dating show Real Love when she’s offered the chance, so she turns it down and tells the producers that her best friend, Delilah, should go on it instead. But as she watches Delilah become the lead, fall in love, and change her entire life, Maya begins to wonder if she’s really as happy as she thought she was—she doesn't have much in the way of a work-life balance, her relationship isn’t quite where she thought it would be, and very little in her life is sparking joy. When her free-spirited whirlwind of a little sister, Ella, blows into town for a surprise visit, Maya finds herself newly intrigued by Ella’s unrooted existence—and she’s equally intrigued by Ella’s gorgeous friend and fellow world traveler, Kai. At a crossroads with both her professional and personal happiness, Maya will have to decide which path to choose: The Plan she’s worked so hard for, or something new entirely?

A Novel

Real Love

From cartoonist Rachel Lindsay, comes a graphic memoir about the treatment of mental illness, treating mental illness as a commodity, and the often unavoidable choice between sanity and happiness. In her early twenties in New York City, diagnosed with bipolar disorder, Rachel Lindsay takes a job in advertising in order to secure healthcare coverage for her treatment. But work takes a strange turn when she is promoted onto the Pfizer account and suddenly finds herself on the other side of the curtain, developing ads for an antidepressant drug. She is the audience of the work she's been pouring over and it highlights just how unhappy and trapped she feels, stuck in an endless cycle of treatment, insurance and medication. Overwhelmed by the stress of her professional life and the self-scrutiny it inspires, she begins to destabilize and while in the midst of a crushing job search, her mania takes hold. Her altered mindset yields a simple solution: to quit her job and pursue life as an artist, an identity she had abandoned in exchange for medical treatment. When her parents intervene, she finds herself hospitalized against her will, and stripped of the control she felt she had finally reclaimed. Over the course of her two weeks in the ward, she struggles in the midst of doctors, nurses, patients and endless rules to find a path out of the hospital and this cycle of treatment. One where she can live the life she wants, finding freedom and autonomy, without sacrificing her dreams in order to stay well.

Kathryn Shay

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Man of Ice

Affair in Venice

Forbidden Love

Food For Love by Rachel Lindsay released on Jan 25, 1979 is available now for purchase.

Food for Love

Love in Disguise

Roman Affair by Rachel Lindsay released on Nov 23, 1979 is available now for purchase.

Roman Affair

The Latitude of Love

Tinsel Star by Rachel Lindsay released on Nov 23, 1979 is available now for purchase.

Tinsel Star

Marquis Takes A Wife by Rachel Lindsay released on Nov 23, 1979 is available now for purchase.

Marquis Takes a Wife

Love And No Marriage by Rachel Lindsay released on Jul 25, 1980 is available now for purchase.

Love and No Marriage

Price of Love

The Widening Stream by Rachel Lindsay released on Jan 25, 1980 is available now for purchase.

The Widening Stream

The Price Of Love by Rachel Lindsay released on Jan 25, 1979 is available now for purchase.

The Price of Love

Secretary Wife by Rachel Lindsay released on Mar 25, 1980 is available now for purchase.

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