Wake Up, Wanda Wiley

By Andrew Diamond

Book Overview

Hannah Sharpe has been written out of all eighteen of Wanda Wiley's romance novels. A runaway heroine who won't conform to the plots laid out for her, Hannah has been consigned to a realm of fog deep in the recesses of the author's imagination.

Trevor Dunwoody, the protagonist of a macho action-thriller that Wanda has regrettably agreed to ghostwrite, is single-minded and obtuse, understanding only what he can beat up, shoot, or screw. Like Hannah, he's a character Wanda doesn't know what to do with. When he appears one day in Hannah's fog world, she can't convince him he's in the wrong story.

Hannah knows she'll be stuck in the limbo of Wanda's subconscious until the writer can find a suitable story to cast her in. But Wanda, trapped in a disastrous relationship with the philandering narcissist Dirk Jaworski, is sinking into a deep depression. The pot she smokes to self-medicate impairs her ability to write and thickens the fog of Hannah's timeless isolation.

As Hannah explains her predicament to the thick-headed Trevor, she begins to realize that she knows her author better than her author knows herself. If she can only break out of the limbo of Wanda's subconscious and nudge the writer in the right direction, she can free them both.

But how can Hannah penetrate the fog of her creator's mind from within? The answer is right in front of her in the form of the big, dumb, action-ready tool, Trevor Dunwoody.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0996350799
• ISBN13: 9780996350792
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Stolen Time Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Interesting Story with fun characters

This was the first book by this author that I have read and I found it very interesting and well written. I enjoyed the various different characters as well as how the story had multiple plots in it between the characters lives and Wanda the writers life. At one point we even got to see Trevor in his original story before he comes back to the house Hannah is stuck in. It was also nice to be able to see things from different perspectives (Hannah's view versus Trevor's when it was the character's story and Wanda's the rest of the time) and how the characters were able to help Wanda break free of her circle of bad habits long enough for Austin to help her find clarity. I liked the character Austin and seeing how him and Wanda interacted once he entered the story. The last chapter takes place 18 months later and it is nice to see how things turned out for Wanda as well as her characters.

Wake up, Wanda Wiley was enjoyable

Wake Up,Wanda Wiley was a surprisingly good little story that I went by fairly quickly. I especially enjoyed the bits with Hannah trying to teach Trevor about the world that they were both in while Wanda was unsure of what to write. It was cute to see the characters of a book be alive and aware of their author. The parts with Wanda were a bit sad at times as she has discovered that she is in a rut with both her writing and her bad relationship with current boyfriend Dirk. Dirk is a real piece of work who constantly demeans and cheats on Wanda. This leads Wanda to smoking pot to deal with the pain. Luckily she has both Hannah and then Trevor rooting for her and trying to help out while she discovers the path to take with her relationship and her life. I liked this book.