{"product_id":"authorlife-paperback","title":"#Authorlife - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eWriting novels wasn't supposed to be a blood sport. After selling his first thriller novel for six figures, Mackenzie \"Mack\" Lane quit his job as a journalist to become a full-time author. But now, a few years later, his career is spiraling downward. With each book doing worse than the last, he fears his status as a Boring White Dude is partly to blame. With his bank accounts dwindling, Mack has to find a way to make more money: his ex-wife wants to send their son to a private high school, and his current wife wants to have a baby. Mack begs his agent and editor to sing the praises of his new novel and do everything in their power to encourage his publisher's marketing team to make the book a bestseller. But as Pub Day for his fourth novel approaches--without the interviews and publicity he'd so hoped for--Mack knows his book is in trouble. And with it, his career and personal life. Growing more desperate, Mack concocts a risky and more-or-less unethical idea for a publicity stunt. His agent, Wallis Wallace, reluctantly goes along with it--after all, if it works, she stands to gain 15% of his windfall. And if it doesn't work, Mack is the one who will suffer the consequences of being ridiculed and cancelled. #AuthorLife is a satire about an author who gets the wrong sort of inspiration from his dying career--because publishing is a bloody hard business.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67922069586143,"sku":"9781967846313","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/BfTxuZX7gt9781967846313.webp?v=1791154246","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/authorlife-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}