Music, Scandal, and a Killer Comeback Album
- Katharine E Wibell
- 4 days ago
- 2 min read
1) I am looking forward to feature your book today. But before I get ahead of myself, why don’t you introduce yourself. You can use your pen name if you have one.
Merie Robie
2) What is your genre(s)?
Contemporary Women’s Fiction
3) What is your book’s pitch (also known as your hook line)?
Three elder stateswomen in the music industry, scarred by scandal, addiction, and forced retirement, go all in to create a killer comeback album.
4) Can you tell me a little more about your book?
Wild Flowers
Three elder stateswomen in the music industry, scarred by scandal, addiction, and forced retirement, go all in to create a killer comeback album. As they learn to trust themselves and dive back into songwriting, they entwine their lives and voices in ways they couldn't have imagined alone.
Everyone has forgotten about soul singer Honey Conaway, except that she stabbed a producer's eye out at a party and left drunk and stumbling like some glitzy Medea. Everyone loves Gloria Redmond: Girls grew up listening to her country-tinged, smart-alecky tunes, but she has become irrelevant past her prime. And everyone knows Sian Star, not for her time fronting the pop band The Whirlygirls, but for driving a red Porsche into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. When these three women create an award-winning comeback album together, each is challenged by the version of herself that pushed her out of the spotlight in the first place.
"A beautiful novel about three vibrant, memorable women who refuse to abandon their passion for music despite their struggles with aging, caretaking, and the frustration of thwarted dreams. Gloria, Honey, and Sian are an inspiring reminder that nothing is over until it's over.” -- Jane Delury, Author of Hedge
"Drop the needle on this power chord of a novel and feel it pull you in. A resonant story about friendship, songwriting, and serendipity, and about how all of us, even aging country stars, can reinvent ourselves." -- Elisabeth Cohen, author of The Glitch.
5) That was great! Can you tell me a little bit more about yourself?
Meri Robie is a writer and editor living in Baltimore. Her novel Wildflowers will be published by Watertower Press in 2025. Her play, "Light Strikes a Deal" was included in the Rapid Lemon Theater's Variations on Night festival (2025), and she earned Honorable Mention for the 2023 Page One Contest by Gutsy Great Novelist (gutsygreatnovelist.com). She is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. You can find her volunteering as an usher for various Baltimore theater productions, driving Baltimore School for the Arts students to local art events, or scribbling away notes in the front seat of her car at stop lights.
6) Do you have a website? If so, what is it?
I do not have one at the moment.
7) Where can people find and follow you?
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