The Accidental Bestseller, Wendy Wax
The Accidental Bestseller, Wendy Wax
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The Accidental Bestseller

Author: Wendy Wax

Narrator: Khristine Hvam

Unabridged: 14 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/19/2012

Categories: Fiction, Women


Synopsis

Once upon a time four aspiring authors met at their very first writers' conference. Ten years later they're still friends, survivors of the ultra-competitive New York publishing world. Mallory St. James is a workaholic whose bestsellers support a lavish lifestyle. Tanya Mason is a single mother juggling two jobs, two kids, and too many deadlines. Faye Truett is the wife of a famous televangelist and the author of inspirational romances: no one would ever guess her explosive secret. Kendall Aims's once-promising career is on the skids—and so is her marriage. Her sales are dismal, her new editor detests her work—and her husband is cheating. Barely able to think, let alone meet her final deadline, Kendall holes up in a mountain cabin to confront a blank page and a blanker future. But her friends won't let her face this trial alone. Together they collaborate on a novel using their own lives as fodder, assuming no one will ever discover the truth behind their words.

No one is more surprised than they are when the book becomes a runaway bestseller. But with success comes scrutiny and scandal . . . as these four best friends suddenly realize how little they've truly known each other.

About Wendy Wax

Wendy Wax is the USA Today bestselling author whose contemporary women's fiction includes the highly praised Ten Beach Road, Ocean Beach, The House on Mermaid Point, While We Were Watching Downton Abbey, Magnolia Wednesdays, and The Accidental Bestseller. A former broadcaster, she lives in the Atlanta area with her family.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Barbara on December 23, 2012

I did not love this book. I felt the characters were very weak willed and used avoidance as a way to deal with unpleasantness. I spent most of the book saying "get a grip!" The story had potential as a friendship tome, but the spineless ness of the women was distasteful. I finished it, but felt myse......more

Goodreads review by Laurel-Rain on November 29, 2009

Four aspiring writers who met at a writers' conference maintain their friendship several years later. Their individual writing careers are varied, but problems of one kind or another plague each of them. Mallory St. James has "bestseller" status, but she has hit a glitch. Writer's block. Kendall Aim......more

Goodreads review by Chrissi on September 11, 2012

I like any books that are about the lives of writers, particularly women writers. Books that deal all about both the process and the struggles of being a writer. This book had an interesting premise because it was not only about one writer, but about four who agree to write a book together so that t......more