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The Publicist (Book One)Behind every book, there’s always more to the story.
Can one woman change an age-old institution like publishing? Probably not, but Kate Mitchell sure wants to try. As a publicist with a large, respected New York publishing house, Kate finds herself at the mercy of a broken publishing system, books that don’t always sell (at all) and author egos that are often, well, as big as the island of Manhattan.
Enter the star Editor, MacDermott Ellis. Tall, handsome, charismatic, married, and ready to save the day. Kate wants to do the right thing but her hormones seem to be driving her decisions. Then there’s Allan Lavigne, once a revered author, now as forgotten as yesterday’s news; and his nephew Nick, who wants to sweep Kate away from New York for another coast, California.
As Kate tries to navigate the landmine of publicity, the over-the-top author expectations, and the careful dance of “I’m sorry, your book isn’t on the bestseller list this week”, she also finds authors who are painfully overlooked by a publisher wanting more sex, more celebrities, and more scandal.
Shelf Life (Book Two):
It’s an industry of out-of-control egos, unrealistic expectations, and unfulfilled promises.
This is publishing and it’s Kate’s world, but maybe not for long.
When one of Kate Mitchell’s star authors is carted away in handcuffs, it’s only the beginning of her troubles. As her world crumbles around her, Kate desperately looks for anyone to hold onto but finds that happy endings are truly works of fiction. With the shelf life of her career and her love affair quickly expiring, Kate sets off on a new adventure…
Starting over in California is easy but Kate soon learns that leaving her old life behind isn’t. Nick Lavigne is eager to help her forget but two things still own her heart, the dream of discovering the next great American novel, and MacDermott Ellis.
As Kate tries to rebuild her life she finds a surprising gift that reboots her career in a new and unexpected direction. Suddenly her name becomes synonymous with one of the biggest bestsellers publishing has seen in ages and she's welcomed back with open arms.
But at the height of her success the ghosts of her past come back to remind her of the world she'd been trying to forget and the man who never let go of her heart.
Behind the book, there’s always more to the story. Welcome to Publishing, the ego has landed.
This is publishing and it’s Kate’s world, but maybe not for long.
When one of Kate Mitchell’s star authors is carted away in handcuffs, it’s only the beginning of her troubles. As her world crumbles around her, Kate desperately looks for anyone to hold onto but finds that happy endings are truly works of fiction. With the shelf life of her career and her love affair quickly expiring, Kate sets off on a new adventure…
Starting over in California is easy but Kate soon learns that leaving her old life behind isn’t. Nick Lavigne is eager to help her forget but two things still own her heart, the dream of discovering the next great American novel, and MacDermott Ellis.
As Kate tries to rebuild her life she finds a surprising gift that reboots her career in a new and unexpected direction. Suddenly her name becomes synonymous with one of the biggest bestsellers publishing has seen in ages and she's welcomed back with open arms.
But at the height of her success the ghosts of her past come back to remind her of the world she'd been trying to forget and the man who never let go of her heart.
Behind the book, there’s always more to the story. Welcome to Publishing, the ego has landed.
Climax (Book Three)
Kate Mitchell has everything. She's the head of a crazy successful publishing house, engaged to the traffic-stopping sexy Mac Ellis and she's about to sign one of the biggest authors of her career.
And that's when everything falls apart.
Everything is perfect…until it’s not.
In a city of 8 million people Kate manages to run into someone she never expected to see again.
Nick is handsome, impossibly kind, every girl’s dream, and Kate’s former fiancé. He’s also the brother of the rising star author she’s trying to sign. Now that Nick’s back in town and has moved on he insists he’s over Kate, but part of him still can’t get past how amazing they were, and his sister won’t let anyone forget how brutally it ended.
When Mac is dealt a life-changing blow, it forces Kate to question every single choice she’s made.
Follow Kate as she embarks on a journey of life and love, navigating through the decisions that will change it all forever.
Author's Bio:
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The Endless Cycle of Telling Stories
by Christina George
Maybe it’s just me but I really miss my peeps, and by peeps I mean the fictional characters I created in The Publicist book series. Now, before you go call someone to put me in a padded cell let me explain.
As writers we are tasked to create a slew of fictional characters, situations and, in some cases, fictional places. After three books I know these people well and I have, candidly, grown to love them. So we start thinking about what other adventures they can have which is pretty hard to do after you’ve given them all a happy ending but then it occurred to me that even though the primary characters are set and happy there are still more stories to tell. One in fact might be Allan Lavigne. This is going to sound odd but the other night I woke up thinking about Allan and I realized that for someone who is so pivotal to these books, we really know so little about him. For example, his first book The Fall was a massive, huge, historic success yet we know nothing about the book or how he came to write it. Now wouldn’t that be interesting to explore and what if, on a particular day, an eighty year old woman walks into Kate’s office and introduces herself as Allan’s ex-wife and the inspiration behind The Fall. Until this happens, we didn’t even know Allan had been married. And what if this triggers a look back in time, back to the 1950’s when Allan was young and full of ideas and met the then love of his life who inspired this journey he took.
It’s this kind of insight and these kinds of stories that beg to be told and the problem is, when you love a set of characters you want to keep telling stories to keep them alive. I know this sounds odd but I guarantee you that any fiction writer out there reading this knows exactly what I mean.
We don’t just write characters, we fall in love with them, they are our deepest fears and our biggest achievements. They are parts of ourselves we often didn’t even know we had and to let them die would be to let part of us die, too. So there is an open door for more new ideas, more places they can go and more things they can experience including Allan’s journey which I can not get out of my head. I keep seeing him young, unafraid and wildly talented, ready to take on the world, still unaware of the fame he will one day see. Or perhaps Vivienne who has now so endeared herself to me, what’s her life going to be like now that she’s here on the edge of the same fame her Uncle experienced? We love seeing what happens after the words “the end,” we want to know what’s next. That’s the beauty of the endless cycle of story-telling. We want to tell stories and, god willing, the readers will love them as much as we do.
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Laura Fabiani
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