A Survival Guide for Untying the Knot // Pre-order now
Contemporary Fiction
Story wants a divorce. It’s not that her marriage is awful. Or that she doesn’t believe in marriage anymore. She is a wedding photographer; she has to believe in marriage. It’s just that, tying that knot feels a little bit more like a noose than she expected. Nevermind what this means for her business, Story must decide what this means for her soul.
Raised to believe a person is only worth the salt in their boot straps, Story must write her own survival guide to tying the knot and hanging on tight. Survival, though, is messy, and love, doubly so. Despite her best efforts, love will find Story in the back of an Astro van. Love will practically curate the soundtrack to her soul’s impending doom. If she can’t have her cake, then maybe she can have her sins and savor them, too.
Worst case scenario, the earth splits open and hell swallows her whole. If the last thing she does is save Hunter from a fate like her own, then that’s exactly what she’ll do. May the devils have mercy on their souls.
Reviews
“This comes from a micro press that wants to publish “non-boring stories,” and this book succeeds on that count, though some scenarios defy reason. For collections that serve adventurous readers.”
— Booklist
Women’s Fiction | Comedy
Fans of Andrew Sean Greer’s Less, will enjoy this contemporary fiction novel as they follow its main character through elaborate and hilarious schemes to run away from their problems. Fans of Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love will appreciate this spin on the contemporary divorce story, for its focus on breaking gender roles, savoring sins and simply remembering to eat: a Love, Pray, Eat if you will.
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Reviews
Those who have received Advance Review Copies reviewed They Won’t Apologize For The Mess on Goodreads (Here). They have this to say:
The Coloring Book
Based on the novel, this coloring book (for adults but also non-adults) consists of 38 single line drawings, 1 copy of the book cover, and one copy of the back cover to color. These images first appeared in the novel as chapter images. I cannot explain why they are single line drawings, except that the messier the images were, the more I liked them.
It could be argued that the lines in this coloring book don’t matter. There are squiggles and scratches that were not smoothed or buffed or deleted. My hope is that you color outside the lines, fill in the negative space, restructure the images and make it your own. Whatever you do, have fun, and don’t apologize for it.
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