A Complete Fiction

Ride With Me driver P.J. Larkin has written three unpublished novels and is desperate for her latest, a #metoo story, to find a publisher.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?

‘A propulsive, funny, complex, and deeply original novel.’ Kevin Wilson, author of Run for the Hills

‘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.’ Laurie Frankel, author of Family Family and This Is How It Always Is

‘A novel that is snappy and frothy but has a nuanced point to make about human behavior.’ Los Angeles Weekly Times

‘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!.’ Erika Krouse, author of, Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation