The Spinster Diaries: A Novel
Our heroine, a moderately successful TV writer in L.A., wants her life to be as sunny and perfect as a Hollywood rom-com: a cool job, a wacky best friend, and lots of age-appropriate hot guys just dying to date her. Instead, she’s a self-described spinster who is swimming in anxiety and just might have a tiny little brain tumor. So she turns to an unlikely source for inspiration: the eighteenth-century novelist and diarist Frances Burney, who pretty much invented the chick-lit novel.
A semi-autobiographical unromantic comedy, The Spinster Diaries is a laugh-out-loud satire of both the TV business and the well-worn conventions of chick lit―as well as the true tale of the forgotten writer who inspired Jane Austen to greatness. It's an endearing and refreshingly honest testament to how one person’s life can reach out across the centuries to touch another’s.
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Book details
- Author
- Gina Fattore
- Imprint
- Prospect Park Books, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 216
- Formats
- Paperback
- Subjects
- Fiction › Romance › Romantic Comedy
Fiction › Literary
Fiction › Humorous - Topics
- romantic comedy · Hollywood satire · TV writers · single women · chick lit satire · 18th-century history · autofiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781945551734
About the author
GINA FATTORE is co-showrunner and executive producer of the USA network series Dare Me. Her other television credits include Masters of Sex, Parenthood, Californication, Gilmore Girls, and Dawson’s Creek.
Before moving to Los Angeles, Fattore was an assistant editor at the Chicago Reader. Her essays and reviews have appeared in the Chicago Reader, The Millions, Salon, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.
When she’s not writing, Fattore has spoken publicly on ideas and belief, delivering a TED talk titled "Become What You Believe" at TEDx GrandRapids in 2015.