The Writing Retreat

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The dark, atmospheric, feminist offspringof Squid Game,The Hunting PartyandMisery A book deal to die for. Five attendees are selected for a month-long writing retreat at the remote estate of Roza Vallo, the controversial high priestess of feminist horror. Alex, a struggling writer, is thrilled. Upon arrival, they discover they must complete an entire novel from scratch, and the best one will receive a seven-figure publishing deal. Alexs long-extinguished dream now seems within reach. But then the women begin to die. Trapped, terrified yet still desperately writing, it clear there is more than a publishing deal at stake at Briar estate. As Alex must confront her own demons and finish her novel to save herself. This unhinged, propulsive, claustrophobic closed-door thriller will pull you in and spit you out

Author Bio

Julia Bartz is a Brooklyn-based writer and practicing therapist. She is the author of the popular Psychology Today blog My Pleasure: The New Science of Sex, Dating, and Self-Care and previously ran the Brooklyn literary blog BookStalker. Her fiction has been published in the South Dakota Review, FictionDaily and InDigest Magazine and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. The Writing Retreatis her first novel.