I’m delighted to announce that my debut novel, The Rites of Man, will be published on Dec. 3 by Ten16 Press and is now available for pre-order in the United States.

The Rites of Man, set in 1996, tells the story of a creative woman, Sherry McManus, whose entanglement with an author upends both their lives and sparks a national conversation about artistic legitimacy and the rights of women. An important detail: The name of the author is Tom Paine, who built his National Book Award-winning career by writing contemporary novels under the titles of his revolutionary namesake, Thomas Paine: Common Sense, The American Crisis. And there the trouble begins…

I’ll be presenting The Rites of Man in Paris on Jan. 13 and in Washington, D.C., on March 7.

Click here for a sneak peak inside the novel, and here to pre-order.

Happy reading!