Wade Rouse

Wade Rouse is the USA TODAY, Publishers Weekly and #1 internationally bestselling author of 21 books, including five memoirs, 13 novels and three holiday novellas. Wade’s books have been translated into nearly 30 languages and have been bestsellers across the world. His novels, The Secret of Snow, The Clover Girls and A Wish for Winter, have been optioned for film and TV.

Wade’s books have been selected multiple times as Must-Reads by NBC’s Today Show, Indie Next Picks by the nation’s independent booksellers as well as Michigan Notable Books of the Year. His memoirs and novels have been featured in the Washington Post, USA Today and on Chelsea Lately. Wade was a finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards in Humor (he lost to Tina Fey) and was named by Writer’s Digest as “The #2 Writer, Dead or Alive, We’d Like to Have Drinks With” (Wade was sandwiched between Ernest Hemingway and Hunter Thompson).

2026 will be a big year with two books being published, including That’s What Friends Are For (March 3) and a Christmas novel, The Bluff</em, set on Mackinac Island (October 13).