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In 2021 I took a course at Story Studio--the highly selective Novel in a Year with James Klise. One of  the workshoppers got a book contract and her new novel is due out this year. Good luck Maxine, Max, you hardly need luck, but fingers crossed for your writing path!

PUBLICATION AUG 22, 2023

Cold Girls

Eighteen-year-old Rory Quinn-Morelli doesn’t want to die; she wants refuge from reality for even a minute: the reality where she survived the car crash eight months ago, and her best friend, Liv, didn’t. Yet her exasperating mother won’t believe the Xanax incident was an accident, and her therapist is making it increasingly hard to maintain the detached, impenetrable “cold girl” façade she adopted from Liv. After she unintentionally reconnects with Liv’s parents, Rory must decide: will she keep Liv’s and her secrets inside, or will she finally allow herself to break? And if she breaks, what will she unearth amid the pieces?

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BTW James will have a new novel out Spring of 2023.

I’ll Take Everything You Have is a vivid portrayal of queer coming of age in Depression-era Chicago,  and a timeless story of trying to make your future bright when the rest of the world is dead set on keeping it hidden in the dark.

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