Just Her Holiday Type (Pre-Order)

This is a pre-order of Just Her Holiday Type and will be available in your Audiobrary app on December 8, 2026. Upon the publication of the audiobook, you will receive a notification in your app and email saying it’s live! However, once you place this order, the projects will preemptively appear in your app. In there, you will have an audio message from Julia filling you in on what to expect.

(Run time: Approx 6 hours)

Every December Plum Hayes writes the kind of Christmas rom-com movies her readers watch and love. Too bad she stopped believing in holiday magic the night her own happily-ever-after fell apart.

Two weeks from deadline and out of holiday spirit, she's been packed off to Pine Tree, a snow-globe town with all the charm and few of the Christmas traditions it used to be known for. There she finds the typewriter. And the typewriter magically manifests her a leading man — named, dressed, and accessorized to her exact specifications.

Zach is perfect. Zach is also impossible. The problem is Ethan.

Ethan, the no-nonsense, flannel-wearing owner of the antique shop downstairs, who is holding things together with two hands, says inconveniently true things, and looks at her in a way no script could ever quite capture.

With Christmas Eve closing in and her deadline breathing down her neck, Plum is going to have to choose between the perfect man and the right one.

Just Her Holiday Type is a sweet, swoony, laugh-out-loud Christmas romcom about deadlines, do-overs, and what happens when you stop writing the script and start living it.

For anyone who's ever wanted to believe in holiday magic again.

Brisa Carleton (Author) is a bestselling author, screenwriter, and three-time Tony Award-winning Broadway producer based in Midtown Manhattan and Naples, Florida. She is the author of Last Call at the Savoy, winner of the American Fiction Award for Best Debut Novel, and the holiday romance Just Her Holiday Type. Her upcoming Hallmark Christmas movie will premiere as part of the 2026 Countdown to Christmas lineup.

Before turning a lifelong love of reading into a passion for writing, Brisa worked on numerous Broadway productions, including Hamilton, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, and Moulin Rouge!. Then, in 2019, her career took an unexpected turn when HSH Prince Albert of Monaco invited her to lead his foundation’s philanthropy efforts in theater, dance, and film in honor of his mother, Princess Grace Kelly.

When she isn’t writing, Brisa is hosting friends around the piano for show tune sing-alongs or off traveling the world with her husband, Mark, and their Chihuahua, Mister Big, in search of a good story, a new escapade, and a very cold martini.

Julia Whelan (Narrator) is an author, screenwriter, lifelong actor, and acclaimed audiobook narrator of over 700 titles.

She is, most recently, the recipient of Spotify's Narrator of the Year Award (the most listened-to narrator globally), the first-ever Gracie Award for Best Fiction Narrator (presented by the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation), the SOVAS (Society of Voice Arts and Sciences) Lifetime Achievement Award, and winner of the Audie Award for Best Fiction Narrator of 2025. She also captured both the winner and runner-up slots in the inaugural audiobook category of the Goodreads Choice Awards.

Her latest books — the Audie nominated duet romance, Casanova LLC (coming in print, Spring 2027), and the annotated Victorian poetry anthology The Poetry Of My Oxford Year — debuted exclusively on Audiobrary. jmwhelan.com

Daniel di Tomasso is a Canadian-American actor best known for his series regular roles on Lifetime’s Witches of East End and TNT’s Major Crimes, with other work spanning drama, comedy, and romance across both network TV and streamers. His television and film credits include Chicago Fire, CSI: Vegas, Ratched, Timeless, and the feature film French Exit, among others. He graduated from Middlebury College with a double major in Theater and Italian, and an unofficial minor in late-night dance parties. He speaks English, French, and Italian, but dances in all languages.

Jonathan Bennett Began his career as Aaron Samuels in Mean Girls, He has since become a Hollywood multi-hypehnate. In between realizing his life-long dream of starring on Broadway in Monty Python’s acclaimed Spamalot and hosting Food Network’s top-rated Halloween Wars, he continues to break new ground at Hallmark: starring in and executive producing The Holiday Sitter, the network’s first gay-led romantic comedy, as well as the GLAAD Media Award-winning The Groomsmen trilogy (fans have dubbed him “The Gay King of Christmas”); serving as creator/producer/host of their first-ever unscripted competition series, Finding Mr. Christmas, which has garnered multiple Critic’s Choice Real TV Award nominations; and masterminding yet another unscripted vehicle for the network, Murder Mystery HouseVan Wilder: Freshman Year, playing Steve Martin’s antagonistic son-in-law in Cheaper By the Dozen 2, as well as roles on popular shows such as Dr. Odyssey, Station 19, Law & Order: SVU, Fantasy Island, and more. He can currently be seen on the legendary General Hospital. He also hosts Time Square New Year’s Eve and Battle of the Decades on Discovery Plus. His work to bring more LGBTQ storylines to television and movies has earned him the Equality Visibility Award from the Human Rights Campaign.