This quarter-life-crisis novel starts out a bit slowly, but it finds its footing when Nora begins to take risks, even if they don’t always pan out. With the added pressure of a possible promotion riding on her getting hot young author Andrew Santos to sign a contract for his new book after she befriends him at a conference, Nora must struggle to keep her head afloat while figuring out what she truly wants. No longer sure she can even pay the rent, she secretly takes a part-time freelance job with a rival publishing company. To make matters worse, she’s just found out that her salary is being cut by 15%. She works on business books she’s not excited about, and her company is downsizing, leaving her stuck covering the slack of layoffs and saying goodbye to the co-workers who kept her sane, including her best friend, Beth.
She’s been in love with books since she was small, and the idea of working with them seemed like a dream-but now, five years in, it’s become a nightmare.
Nora Hughes has been an editorial assistant at Parsons since she first got out of college.
Maggie will have to decide what’s more important: the books that formed a small town’s history, or the stories poised to change it all.A young woman tries to find her purpose in life while working a dead-end job in this debut novel. Especially when Maggie unearths a town secret that could upend everything. But keeping the club quiet, selling forbidden books, and dodging the literary society is nearly impossible. To help save the store, Maggie starts an underground book club, running a series of events celebrating the books readers actually love. So, when a series of mishaps suddenly tip the bookstore toward ruin, Maggie will have to get creative to keep the shop afloat.Īnd in Maggie’s world, book rules are made to be broken. Bell River’s literary society insists on keeping the bookstore stuck in the past, and Maggie is banned from selling anything written this century. But running a bookstore in a town with a famously bookish history isn’t easy. When Maggie Banks arrives in Bell River to run her best friend’s struggling bookstore, she expects to sell bestsellers to her small-town clientele. If only, I, Maggie Banks, believed in following the rules.
I, Maggie Banks, solemnly swear to uphold the rules of Cobblestone Books. “A sparkling bookish story about rules just begging to be broken.” - Abby Jimenez, New York Times bestselling author of Part of Your World and The Friend Zone
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