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Ellery Goes Dark

By Alisa Kennedy Jones

Ellery Goes Dark

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A must-read for fans of Maria Semple, Meg Mason, and Catherine Newman, Ellery Goes Dark is a sharp, hilarious novel about a perfectionist talk show host whose life unravels on air—proving that midlife reinvention is messy, surreal, and sometimes guided by the ghost of George Michael.



Ellery Goes Dark is a sharp, sexy midlife rom-com about a perfectionist New York talk-show host whose on-air epileptic seizure shatters her career and identity. Wired-shut and silenced, Ellery must survive a smoldering stuffed-shirt Harvard neurologist, teenage daughters, public humiliation, and the ghost of George Michael as her spirit guide through a surreal pharmacological bardo—on a journey to reclaim her voice, her body, and her life.

Alisa Kennedy Jones

Alisa Kennedy Jones is the publisher of Empress Editions, an innovative independent press dedicated to amplifying the voices of midlife women. She is the bestselling author of Gotham Girl, Interrupted, a collection of comedic essays about living with epilepsy that became a breakout in the field of narrative medicine. Her TEDx talk on creativity, electricity, and the brain has been viewed around the world, and her writing has been featured by NPR and in the Academy Award-nominated documentary CRIP CAMP, executive produced by Michelle and Barack Obama.A screenwriter, memoirist, and advocate for disability and neurodiversity, Jones is fluent in five languages and writes frequently about identity, resilience, and the art of reinvention. She resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is currently at work on her next novel, Ellery Allbright Goes Dark, the story of a talk show host who loses her perfect life live on camera—only to discover a far more meaningful one off-screen.Alisa Kennedy Jones is the publisher of Empress Editions, an innovative independent press dedicated to amplifying the voices of midlife women. She is the bestselling author of Gotham Girl, Interrupted, a collection of comedic essays about living with epilepsy that became a breakout in the field of narrative medicine. Her TEDx talk on creativity, electricity, and the brain has been viewed around the world, and her writing has been featured by NPR and in the Academy Award-nominated documentary CRIP CAMP, executive produced by Michelle and Barack Obama. A screenwriter, memoirist, and advocate for disability and neurodiversity, Jones is fluent in five languages and writes frequently about identity, resilience, and the art of reinvention. She resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is currently at work on her next novel, Ellery Allbright Goes Dark, the story of a talk show host who loses her perfect life live on camera—only to discover a far more meaningful one off-screen.

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