After Happily Ever After: A Novel

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Appeals to an underserved market: Between Gen X and Baby Boomers, in the US alone, there are more than 75 million mature women searching for stories featuring relatable characters like this books protagonist, who is a middle-aged woman at a crossroads. Top-selling genre: Womens fiction comprises at least 40% of adult popular fiction sold in the United States and approximately 60% of adult popular fiction paperbacks. For women who loved: Laura Daves Eight Hundred Grapes and the movie Somethings Gotta Give.

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2022 Eric Hoffer Book Awards Honorable Mention in Commercial Fiction
2022 Independent Press Awards Distinguished Favorite in Contemporary Novel
2022 Reader Views Literary Awards Silver Winner in General Fiction/Novel
2022 Reader Views Literary AwardsSilver Award Winner in General Fiction/Novel
2022 Independent Press AwardsDistinguished Favorite in Contemporary Novel
One of Popsugar's Best Books of 2021
2021 Top Shelf Awards Runner Up in Fiction (Womens)
2021 Literary Titan Book Awards Silver Winner
2021 Firebird Award Winner in multiple categories, including Contemporary Novel and Marriage
2021 Book Excellence Awards Finalist in Marriage
2021 International Book Awards Finalist in Fiction: Women's Fiction
2021 Readers' Favorite Book Awards Finalist in Fiction: Realistic
2021 Hollywood Book Awards Honorable Mention in General Fiction
2021 NYC Big Book Awards Winner in Marriage
2021 NYC Big Book Awards Distinguished Favorite in New Fiction (First-time published)
2021 IAN Book of the Year Awards Finalist in Fiction: Womens Fiction

Rasmussen is a freelance journalist and former TV sitcom writer and the latter is evident in the novels sharp, funny dialogue and Maggies wry, observational narration.
Kirkus Reviews

Leslie A. Rasmussen has written a fiction story that most women can relate to in one way or another with compassion and love. After Happily Ever After is a wonderful read that will not disappoint. I highly recommend After Happily Ever After to women both young and old.
Readers' Favorite, five stars

A Connecticut housewife traverses middle age with self-deprecating wit and aplomb in Leslie Rassmussens novel After Happily Ever After.
Foreword Reviews

Leslie A. Rasmussens After Happily Ever After gives voice to many women in the sandwich generationand the voice is a funny one.
Leslie Lehr, prize-winning author of A Boobs Life and What a Mother Knows

With warm tenderness, peppered with humor throughout, Leslie A. Rasmussen has written a novel of fresh, relatable characters, easy to root for and easy to know. Anyone juggling the lives of loved ones while navigating their own will recognize the protagonist as she struggles to find the missing parts of a so-called life that turns out to beherself.
Sande Boritz Berger, author of Split Level and The Sweetness

In Leslie A. Rasmussens debut novel, a woman finds herself reanalyzing her life and her marriage when her daughter is heading off to college. Smart and funny, After Happily Ever After is an exciting debut.
Laura Dave, international best-selling author of Eight Hundred Grapes

After Happily Ever After is a road map for every empty nester whose marriage has lost its spark. You cant help but see yourself on these pages.
Adrienne Barbeau, actress and author of There are Worse Things I Could Do and the Vampyres of Hollywood series

This book takes a very real look at the complex lives of forty-something women who are torn between their duties to all family members while still trying to fulfill their own desires. The characters ring true, and although there are heavy themes, the book manages to be very funny at times and also a fast, easy, read. Many women will see a lot of themselves in Maggie and will enjoy seeing how her circumstances and decisions will play out.
Seattle Book Review

Written with honesty and humor and grit, Leslie A. Rasmussens wonderful debut novel is filled with poignant and truth and so much clever. Yes, you will cry, and yes, you will laugh out loud and. . . fall in love with this book.
Amy Ferris, best-selling author, screenwriter, and playwright

Author Leslie A. Rasmussen peppers the story with humor and sarcasm, making Maggie, the protagonist, likeable and easy to identify with. Her breezy writing style is entertaining, but theres real meaning beneath her attitude. If you like womens fiction, After Happily Ever Afteris worth your time.
Story Circle Book Reviews

Author Bio

Leslie A. Rasmussen was born and raised in Los Angeles and graduated from UCLA. She went on to write television comedies for Gerald McRaney, Burt Reynolds, Roseanne Barr,Norm McDonald,and Drew Carey, as well as The Wild Thornberrysand Sweet Valley High. After leaving the business to raise her boys, she obtained a masters degree in nutrition and ran her own business forten years. Recently, shes written over twenty essays for Huffington Post and spoken on panels discussing empowering women in midlife. Leslie is a member of The Writers Guild of America, as well as Women In Film and the Womens Fiction Writers Association. After Happily Ever Afteris her debut novel and has won over fifteen awards. Her next novel, The Stories We Cannot Tell,will be released next year. In her free time, Leslie loves to read, exercise, and hang out with friends. Married with two sons, she lives in Los Angeles.