CHICK SINGER: upmarket women’s fiction, complete at 83,000 words:

Pitch: A former ‘80s rock singer is forced to excavate her mysterious past when her boomeranging adult daughter secretly — and successfully — posts her old music online.

Synopsis:

Rock & roll stardom is something you dream about when you’re young, and for fifty-something LIBBY CONLIN that’s ancient history. What pulls her attention these days is the unannounced arrival of BRIDGET, her newly divorced daughter, home again despite their historically fractious relationship and the chaos it inspires. When Bridget’s application to a local art school involves anonymously posting Libby’s old music online, and that music is good enough to garner the unexpected attention of industry gatekeepers, Libby’s secretive past comes roaring into the present, demanding a reconfiguration of everything and everyone in her orbit.

When fascination with rock & roll remains a never-ending draw, CHICK SINGER steps onto that stage with its raucous exploration of a complex mother/daughter relationship set against a backdrop of music, facing age, and reclaiming both love and dreams, echoing elements of A SONG FOR THE ROAD (2021) by Kathleen M. Basi, Rachel Joyce’s THE MUSIC SHOP (2018); Robinne Lee’s, THE IDEA OF YOU (2017), and Colleen Hoover’s, REGRETTING YOU (2019).

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