Margaux Eliot Book Release Y2k Party

Journey back to the early 2000s to celebrate HONEYMOON STAGE with outfits and tunes from the days of frosted tips and DVDs! Margaux Eliot's (Julia Fine)new book is sure to transport you to the early days of reality tv, the pre-social media wonderland that is the early aughts. She will be joined in conversation with best-selling author of THE FAVORITES, Layne Fargo.

ABOUT THE BOOK: Brimming with wit and romance, this twisty trip back to the early 2000s follows as a former production assistant’s upcoming marriage descends into the confusion, chaos, and karmic consequences of reality TV.

It’s the night before her wedding, and Cassidy Baum isn’t sure she wants to get married…Or maybe she just doesn’t want to get married on set, surrounded by cameras and crew, with the crushing weight of everyone watching.

As a production assistant, Cassidy’s used to being behind the camera, not in front of it. But her fiancé is a former child star and musician, and their wedding makes the perfect spin-off for Honeymoon Stage, the groundbreaking celebreality show she once worked on.

Five years ago, the show fell apart―for dramatic reasons Cassidy is still struggling to understand. Now, Cassidy is forced to reckon with what happened on set to search out the truth once and for all before her wedding is broadcast to the world.

Rumors, lies, and suspicions come rushing back. And if Cassidy can’t figure out a way to make sense of the past, her own happily ever after may not be so happy after all.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Julia Fine is the author of the novels Maddalena and the Dark, The Upstairs House, winner of the Chicago Review of Books Award for Fiction, and What Should Be Wild, which was shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior First Novel. As Margaux Eliot, her novel Honeymoon Stage is expected in Fall 2025. She teaches writing in Chicago, where she lives with her family.

ABOUT LAYNE FARGO: Layne Fargo has a background in theater, women’s studies, and library science, so it’s only fitting that she now writes deliciously dramatic, unapologetically feminist stories for a living. She’s the bestselling author of the novels , , and , as well as co-author on the series, and her work has been translated into over a dozen languages. Layne lives in Chicago with her partner, their pets, and an ever-expanding collection of books she’s definitely going to read before she dies.

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