Ghost/Writer

by Diana Peterfreund

Diana Peterfreund dives deep in this hilarious yet poignant look at the wild world of book publishing, the choices we make in life, and how they can haunt us for years to come… literally.

A whole new meaning to ghostwriting...

After having her idea stolen and turned into a blockbuster series by her ex-writing mentor, Sutton St. Clair, all Bianca Lindow-Platt wants is to plot her Biker Smut Book #14, collect her check, and pay her mortgage.

But when Sutton dies suddenly, leaving the writing of the last, desperately in-demand book to Bianca in her will, Bianca is saddled with bigger

Paisley, Sutton's die-hard fan/assistant who was left out of the will―and definitely holds a grudge against anyone who was “honored.”

Carson, Sutton's estranged son, who has been traumatized by his mother’s books (who names a romance hero after their child?!) and now must settle the estate, determined to hate anyone connected to the cursed, viral series.

And Sutton herself, back from the dead and determined to back-seat-haunt her masterpiece―and Bianca―while fixing the mistakes she made with the people in her life.

Now, Bianca must come to terms with the true meaning of “the end” and what it means to move on.

Genres: Fiction

384 pages, Hardcover

Expected publication April 13, 2027

About the author

Diana Peterfreund has been a costume designer, a cover model, and a food critic. Her travels have taken her from the cloud forests of Costa Rica to the underground caverns of New Zealand (and as far as she’s concerned, she’s just getting started). Diana graduated from Yale University in 2001 with dual degrees in Literature and Geology, which her family claimed would only come in handy if she wrote books about rocks. Now, this Florida girl lives with her husband and their puppy in Washington D.C., and writes books that rock

Her first novel, Secret Society Girl (2006), was described as “witty and endearing” by The New York Observer and was placed on the New York Public LIbrary’s 2007 Books for the Teen Age list. The follow-up, Under the Rose (2007) was deemed “impossible to put down” by Publisher’s Weekly, and Booklist called the third book, Rites of Spring (Break) (2008), “an ideal summer read.” The final book in the series, Tap & Gown, will be released in 2009. All titles are available from Bantam Dell.

She also contributed to the non-fiction anthologies, Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume, edited by Jennifer O’Connell (Pocket Books, 2007), The World of the Golden Compass, edited by Scott Westerfeld (BenBella Books, 2007), and Through the Wardrobe, edited by Herbie Brennan (BenBella Books, 2008).

Her first young adult novel, Rampant, an adventure fantasy about killer unicorns and the virgin descendents of Alexander the Great who hunt them, will be released by Harper Collins in 2009. When she’s not writing, Diana volunteers at the National Zoo, adds movies she has no intention of watching to her Netflix queue, and plays with her puppy, a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever named Rio.

Reviews

[Karyn Silverman]

A little odd, very inside baseball. Fine.