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by Mike Maimone (Author)
When indie musician Mike Maimone meets legendary publicist Howard Bragman, neither expects a once-in-a-lifetime love story to unfold. Despite their perceived differences, they quickly build a world together based on music, humor, hard-won wisdom, and the unexpected tenderness that comes from finding your forever person just when you'd given up looking.
But when Howard is diagnosed with cancer on the eve of Mike's planned proposal, the life they had been envisioning together changes overnight. What follows is both devastating and luminous-a final chapter marked by brutal honesty, fierce devotion, and moments of grace that arrive exactly when they're needed most.
Guess What? I Love You is Mike's memoir of the great love of his life and the tragedy of losing it too soon. He has also produced an album of the same name. As he channels his grief into words and music-guided by beautiful and inexplicable synchronicities-readers witness a transformation from heartbreak toward healing.
The result is both a portrait of love and a testament to resilience: a deeply intimate yet universal story celebrating love's power to endure.
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR GUESS WHAT? I LOVE YOU:
"Guess what? I loved it! Mike Maimone's beautifully written, deeply moving memoir will stir the soul of anyone who reads it. This story captures all the joy, wonders and heartaches of finding a new love, only to end tragically. Maimone brings vividly to life his improbable love story with Hollywood PR genius Howard Bragman. As a tribute, Maimone explains Howard's impact on the lives of a wide range of celebrities and incorporates historic changes that Bragman was involved in. But the heart of this book is the very moving private relationship of two men whose lives come together through the magic of love, in an extraordinary way that neither one thought was possible, showing us all that love can last a lifetime - even through death."
- THOMAS MAIER, New York Times bestselling author of Masters of Sex
"Guess What? I Love You depicts the heartfelt journey of two individual souls divinely threaded together by the mystical circumstances of life, and how they live out the rarest of human understandings of true love. Utilizing slices of charm and entertainment, this beautifully crafted piece demonstrates that love, in its purest form, lives beyond time and space and continues to grow stronger with the dawning of each new day!"
- JAMES VAN PRAAGH, #1 New York Times bestselling spiritual medium
"One of those understated revelations that says something big and elusive about what it means to be alive. About the beauty of loving someone. And the impossibility of losing them. It's writing that sticks with you.
Mike is a truly gifted writer. I particularly loved his voice; it's smart, funny, warm, and leaps off the page. From the early scenes of their growing bond to the tender unfolding of Howard's illness, I felt pulled entirely into their world. The way Mike captures their love - the intimacy, the playfulness, their resilience in the face of heartbreak and their insistence on loving each other despite it - is deeply moving. It is a powerful testament to their relationship, to who Howard was as a person, and to Mike's gifts as a writer who captures it all."
- CELESTE FINE, Park, Fine & Brower Literary Agency
