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    612-822-4611

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3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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#Authorlife

#Authorlife

Zagets, Joe

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.99

PREORDER - Expected ship date September 22, 2026

ISBN10: 1967846316
ISBN13: 9781967846313
Publisher: Bad Hand Books
Published: Sep 22 2026
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.07 Depth: 8.98
Language: English
Writing novels wasn't supposed to be a blood sport. After selling his first thriller novel for six figures, Mackenzie Mack Lane quit his job as a journalist to become a full-time author. But now, a few years later, his career is spiraling downward. With each book doing worse than the last, he fears his status as a Boring White Dude is partly to blame. With his bank accounts dwindling, Mack has to find a way to make more money: his ex-wife wants to send their son to a private high school, and his current wife wants to have a baby. Mack begs his agent and editor to sing the praises of his new novel and do everything in their power to encourage his publisher's marketing team to make the book a bestseller. But as Pub Day for his fourth novel approaches--without the interviews and publicity he'd so hoped for--Mack knows his book is in trouble. And with it, his career and personal life. Growing more desperate, Mack concocts a risky and more-or-less unethical idea for a publicity stunt. His agent, Wallis Wallace, reluctantly goes along with it--after all, if it works, she stands to gain 15% of his windfall. And if it doesn't work, Mack is the one who will suffer the consequences of being ridiculed and cancelled. #AuthorLife is a satire about an author who gets the wrong sort of inspiration from his dying career--because publishing is a bloody hard business.

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