Ride With Me driver P.J. Larkin has written three unpublished novels and is desperate for her latest, a #MeToo story, to find a publisher.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?
That’s what P.J. imagines and impulsively posts about George’s book on social media.
Within 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.
But has P.J. revealed her sister Mia’s secrets in her book? Mia thinks so.
Now it’s P.J.’s turn to feel the online heat.
R.L. Maizes creates appealing characters and writes with humour and heart about the shenanigans of the publishing world. A Complete Fiction is a timely and hilarious novel about cancel culture, and who owns the stories that writers tell.
After all, who could make this stuff up?
andA Complete Fiction
‘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!.’
‘Fast-paced and tightly wrought, A Complete Fiction, goes right to the mercenary hearts of two writers and with humor and pathos manages to skewer the publishing industry and the pressure cooker of literary social media simultaneously.’
‘Packed full of contemporary anxiety, hilarious in moments, and a page-turner…This novel is a beach read for people who also care about the cultural zeitgeist.’
‘I loved this witty and completely absorbing novel. Maizes has compassion for her characters and their very real mistakes, and she allows them to negotiate the varying degrees of harm they do one another with artful nuance.’
