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Anne Wagener, a writer who used to be in my local writers' roundtable group before she moved away, just published a book and it hit Amazon today. I bought it in record time for me--about 5 seconds. I hadn't even finished the email Anne sent out about it before I purchased it.

Amazon description of Borrow-a-Bridesmaid by Anne Wagener:

When life hands you lemons, make lemonade—or, in Piper Brody’s case, make a Craigslist ad offering yourself up as a hired bridesmaid! A hilarious, touching, coming-of-age novel from debut author Anne Wagener.

Piper is a recent college grad who decides to sell her body on Craigslist—as a hired bridesmaid. Her airport bookseller job just isn’t bringing home the turkey bacon, and no one’s going to pay her to analyze Milton’s poetry. Turns out, having an English literature degree from an upstanding university isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Piper’s Craigslist endeavor soon picks up steam, netting her clients such as Southern peach Stacey, whose interracial marriage causes a family feud, and Alex, a bride-to-be who’s so type A she’s type A-plus. Between fighting off matching T-shirt–wearing teams of “bustle bitches” at gown sales and learning more about fondant than the Cake Boss, Piper falls for Charlie Bell, the brother of a client. A fellow aspiring writer, Charlie’s the only person recently who’s encouraged Piper to follow her dreams. Not to mention, he’s pretty darn cute.

But when Charlie turns out to be the groom in one of her gigs—and set to marry the craziest bridezilla of them all—Piper must band together with her newfound friends and stop Charlie from making the biggest mistake of his life.

I had the privilege of getting to hear a half dozen chapters and scenes of this book when it was in its earliest stages, and I've always wondered what happened to the characters after that. It's the kind of clever concept that stuck with me over several years. But the writing was exceptional when I heard the early versions; I can only assume it has not lost its brilliance. Anne had a way of making you care deeply about characters you've only just met. I am SO excited to find out what happens in this book after wondering for years!

It's available on Kindle and other ebook platforms.