{"product_id":"a-complete-fiction","title":"A Complete Fiction","description":"\u003cb\u003eP.J. has finally written the book to make her famous...But has someone stolen her story?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Compulsively readable.'\u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Weekly Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRide With Me driver P.J. Larkin has written three unpublished novels and is desperate for her latest, a #metoo story, to find a publisher. Her agent has sent it to George Dunn, editor at Peapod Press, but he rejected it. George has just sold his own novel for a million dollars. But wait: did he steal P.J.'s novel?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat's what P.J. imagines and impulsively posts about George's book on social media.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWithin hours, George is embroiled in a scandal, his job and book deal in jeopardy. Amid the publicity, P.J.'s novel is snapped up by another publisher.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut has P.J. revealed her sister Mia's secrets in her book? Mia thinks so.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow it's P.J.'s turn to feel the online heat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eR.L. Maizes creates appealing characters and writes with humour and heart about the shenanigans of the publishing world. \u003ci\u003eA Complete Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely and hilarious novel about cancel culture, and who owns the stories that writers tell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter all, who could make this stuff up?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e'A propulsive, funny, complex, and deeply original novel.' \u003cb\u003eKevin Wilson, author of \u003ci\u003eRun for the Hills\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'The best kind of fiction...A smart, compelling novel about publishing and its perils, families and friendships and their limitations, and storytelling itself, in all its wondrous messy glory.'\u003cb\u003e Laurie Frankel, author o\u003ci\u003ef Family Family\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e This Is How It Always Is\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A novel that is snappy and frothy but has a nuanced point to make about human behavior.' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Weekly Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Fabulously complex, interesting, and hilarious. As two protagonists fight (and fight dirty) over their respective truths, Maizes asks hard questions about cancel culture, power, politics, sexual abuse, and narrative that make me interrogate my own values...Un-put-downable!.' \u003cb\u003eErika Krouse, author of, \u003ci\u003eTell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"R. L. Maizes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43516758687805,"sku":null,"price":33.24,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9781923058699.jpg?v=1787572187","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/a-complete-fiction","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}