ERIN SHAW IS AN AUTHOR, SCREENWRITER AND FREELANCE JOURNALIST whose work has been published in LA Confidential Magazine, Hello Giggles!, UpWorthy, Bustle, Daily Candy, Biz New Orleans Magazine, Quarterly Magazine, Thought Catalogue, Tasting Table, and Food Republic.
Erin loves writing about women's issues and never shies away from topics that are tough to talk about. She is the author of the acclaimed novel, Have Baggage, Will Travel (2020) which is loosely based on the post-breakup cross country road trip she took by herself the same year all her friends got married. Erin is currently querying her next novel project, Drama Queen and is in development on a subsequent novel project titled, My Sister's Passport that delves into grief and loss, with a hint of Italian vacation rom-com vibes to help the medicine go down.
Erin also hosts the limited series writing podcast, Write This Way! and offers free writing advice to aspiring authors on TikTok.
She lives in Los Angeles with her jazz musician fiancé and their dog, Lulu.
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Rebecca Bradley has always wanted to be a Broadway playwright but gave up her dream to pursue the wrong guy. Now, ten years—and one cheating boyfriend—later, Becca has landed at JFK. She’s eager to start fresh, but can’t seem to write anymore.
Determined to persevere, Becca takes a job at a Greenwich Village café where she meets Miles Thompson, a cranky jazz musician who ironically hates his namesake, (and isn’t too thrilled about training Becca either.)
She would prefer they go together like coffee and cream, but it’s really more of an oil and water situation.
Working with Miles is less than ideal, but their pattern of one-upping each other starts to spark ideas for Becca. Not of scenes, characters, or dialogue, but of ways she can challenge Miles and wipe that smug smile off his face.
As the two find themselves in a series of escalating bets that take them all over the city, tensions shift from competitive to flirtatious. Will these games lead to a creative breakthrough? Something resembling love? Or just a whole lot of drama?
Determined to persevere, Becca takes a job at a Greenwich Village café where she meets Miles Thompson, a cranky jazz musician who ironically hates his namesake, (and isn’t too thrilled about training Becca either.)
She would prefer they go together like coffee and cream, but it’s really more of an oil and water situation.
Working with Miles is less than ideal, but their pattern of one-upping each other starts to spark ideas for Becca. Not of scenes, characters, or dialogue, but of ways she can challenge Miles and wipe that smug smile off his face.
As the two find themselves in a series of escalating bets that take them all over the city, tensions shift from competitive to flirtatious. Will these games lead to a creative breakthrough? Something resembling love? Or just a whole lot of drama?
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Kate Larabee is Los Angeles’ leading travel expert under thirty-five, and everything in her life is going according to plan. When her handsome lawyer boyfriend, Charlie whisks her away for their anniversary weekend, Kate is sure he’s going to propose, but when he breaks up with her instead, Kate’s perfectly planned out life is thrown into immediate chaos.
Unsure of her next move, Kate travels home to Kansas City to see her family and recalibrate. It’s there in her childhood bedroom that she finds a love letter diary she kept with her first love, Rob—the one that got away. Contained within the pages is the person Kate used to be—a free-spirited adventurer that she’s lost over time and one she is eager to return to being... Armed with the diary in hand, and a helpful nudge from her sympathetic editor, Kate hits the road on assignment for the magazine. As she makes her way across the country, stopping in places like, Sedona, Santa Fe, Austin, New Orleans, and Savannah, Kate battles mosquitos, humidity and summer thunderstorms in search of the perfect fried southern delicacy, but discovers so much more in the process. |