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Channing Tatum, Roxane Gay Team Up on Explicit Romance Novel

The high-profile pairing signals a celebrity-to-literary crossover with release timing still unconfirmed.

Overview

  • The collaboration, which drew fresh coverage Tuesday, features Gay calling the book “very sexy” with “lots and lots of sex.”
  • Gay has outlined a premise about two people who honor a marriage pact at forty, then fall in love in what she calls a voluntary arranged marriage set largely in a bakery.
  • No title or publisher has been announced, and neither author has confirmed a firm publication date.
  • Outlets differ on timing, with Gay saying the book will arrive “hopefully next year” and Complex reporting a 2027 release target.
  • Gay says a journalist’s question helped spark the partnership and adds that Tatum insisted on equal pay, while his prior Sparkella children’s books offer context for his move into adult fiction.