“Oh, honey, it’s what I can do for you. I received an email today from someone insisting that I publish your new novel because, in his words, ‘it’s the best fucking thing I’ve read in a lifetime and if you don’t publish it then you’re a moron.’”

Lisa sat heavily on a couch, not quite able to believe what she was hearing. “He wants you to publish it?” she asked to clarify what she was hearing.

“He was pretty damned forceful about it,” Juliet said, her ...