An Unlikely Prospect: A World War II Novel
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For fans of Kate Quinn’s The Rose Code and Jacqueline Winspear’s The Consequences of Fear comes a gripping novel, set in post–WWII San Francisco, about a young female newspaper publisher and a story that could change the course of her city’s future.
“…a well-paced, edgy tale…a salute to solid, honest journalism.”—Kirkus Reviews
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An Unlikely Prospect is a prospect after all
I did quite a happy dance around the desk when I got the news that An Unlikely Prospect was a finalist in the American Fiction Awards in the category of Women's Fiction. I am proud of this book and its heroine, Sandy Zimmer. She doesn't start out as any kind of kick-*ass woman [...]
Fact, meet fiction
A few weeks ago I spoke with my audiobook narrator, April Doty, who asked to hear audio clips of An Unlikely Prospect’s character, Renee Taylor, before she began to voice her. The only problem? There was no real Renee Taylor. We have no record of the names or stories of any of the [...]
The imperfect human voice
It was an odd-hour Zoom call—me at 1 p.m. in California, and my narrator April Doty at 10 p.m. in Spain—when we dug right into the core of my debut novel in the Jane Benjamin series, Copy Boy. April’s questions in advance of narrating my book weren't just about pronunciation or pacing. She [...]