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SUMMARY:Local Author Book Launch!
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate local author Kate Laack and the publication of her THIRD book\, By Any Other Name! There will be a meet & greet\, author talk\, and a book signing! (along with drinks and snacks!)Book synopsis:  \n\n\n\nJordan Marlowe needs a plan. \n\n\n\nFresh out of her MFA program\, she’s bombed an interview at Columbia\, collected a stack of rejections from agents and publishers\, and stalled out in a spiral of writer’s block. Meanwhile\, her best friend is thriving in a PhD program\, and her boyfriend is climbing the tech ladder. \n\n\n\nThen a delayed flight pushes Jordan into an airport bookstore\, and everything changes. On the shelf\, she finds a debut novel: The Unbearable Weight of Secrets by Beatrice Mitchell. Just a few paragraphs in\, her exhaustion turns to shock. The book isn’t just familiar. It’s hers: a manuscript she drafted\, revised\, and workshopped years earlier\, but never published. \n\n\n\nStunned\, Jordan launches a desperate search for answers. Who stole her work\, and why? A critique partner who read an early draft? An ambitious classmate eager for a leg up? Her mentor\, with the most access to her writing but the most to lose by risking her own\, successful career? Or someone else entirely\, a stranger who inexplicably knows Jordan’s voice as well as she does?To reclaim her story\, Jordan must be willing to risk everything: her relationship\, her future career\, and her already fragile belief in herself. Because unmasking Beatrice Mitchell isn’t just about justice. It’s about proving\, once and for all\, that Jordan Marlowe isn’t just chasing the dream of being a writer. She already is one.
URL:https://gardenpartybooks.com/event/local-author-book-launch/
LOCATION:Garden Party Books\, 602 7th St NW\, Rochester\, Minnesota\, 55901\, United States
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