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Veteran entertainment journalist Juliet Izon is releasing her debut novel The Encore

The book follows an indie rock star's "chance encounter" with a brilliant composer at a conservatory in 2003 and 20 years later, the teenaged piano prodigy that ties them together

The Encore hits shelves March 3, 2026, and PEOPLE can exclusively reveal the cover

Juliet Izon loves live music.

In the past few weeks alone, the New York-based journalist has shared snaps from concerts for Haim and Chappell Roan . As she wrote it in her post about the latter show, she loves live music "so much that I wrote a whole novel about it."

It’s true: Izon’s first novel, The Encore , is by, for and about music lovers. Heavy on the “by” part: A large chunk of the book's 368 pages essentially

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