Elin Hilderbrand to retire from writing beach reads in 2024

The best-selling author’s latest book “Golden Girl” is her 27th book and is now available. Hilderbrand says she deliberately wants to quit while there’s still an appetite for her writing.

“A lot of people will follow a writer for a long time and then inevitably they will turn out a book that is not as good as the others,” Hilderbrand told The Associated Press in an interview last month. “I’ve always said to myself, ‘I will not do that. I will make each book better and better or different in some way.’ I feel myself coming to my natural end of my material.”

Hilderbrand, whose past books include “28 Summers,” “The Identicals” and “Here’s to Us” have become a summertime staple, with cover art featuring an idyllic beach scene and stories set in and around the Massachusetts island of Nantucket, where she lives. She says those are the novels she will definitely stop writing in 2024, but someday she may return with a memoir or a cookbook.

Despite plans to step back from writing, Hilderbrand wants to stay in the book world. Hilderbrand wants to become a book influencer, where she recommends books to others.

To get started, Hilderbrand has created a book club on the subscription site Literati. Hilderbrand joins curators including Stephen Curry, Richard Branson, Malala and Cheryl Strayed who also offer their own book clubs on Literati.