Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page.
Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop Capitol Hill in rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Alexis Austin is fixing the plumbing, the tea, and all the problems of the world, it seems, in her landlady mother’s absence.
The quirky tenants—a hilarious mix of misfits and rabble-rousers from days gone by—rely on Alexis all the more when they discover a plot to sell the Hotel. Can Alexis save their home? Find her real father? Deal with her surrogate dad’s dicey past? Find true love? Perhaps only their feisty pet crow, Habib, truly knows.
Provoking interesting questions about the creative process, this novel is by turns funny, scary, witty, suspenseful, beautiful, thrilling, and unexpected.
Seattle7Writers, which created “The Novel: Live!” event and the resulting novel Hotel Angeline, is one of a diverse range of not-for-profit, author-focused organizations receiving support from Amazon.com for programs dedicated to developing new works and new voices. Other recipients include the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, Lambda Literary Foundation, Poets & Writers, One Story, The Loft, Council of Literary Magazines & Presses, Hedgebrook, Copper Canyon Press, The Moth, Girls Write Now, Seattle Arts & Lectures, Richard Hugo House, WriteGirl, 826 Seattle, Voice of Witness, The Kenyon Review, Open Letter, Archipelago Books, Pen American Center, Words Without Borders, the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, Asian American Writers Workshop, and the New York Writers Coalition. All of these organizations share Amazon.com’s obsession with fostering the creation, discussion, and publication of new authors and new work.
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