The last dissertation book (I think)

Here I am, on the bus, starting the last book on my dissertation reading list. I think. I have a few other options on the shelf and somehow people keep recommending me other books, but I’m already slightly concerned that I underestimated how much I can write about each pair of books I’m writing about.

I’ve been seeing Talia Hibbert’s ‘Get a Life, Chloe Brown’ everywhere since I ordered it. The effect of social media marketing. This is not her first book, but it’s her most popular one and it was published when she was 24/25 (different sources say different things). It’ll be paired up with Beth Reekles and possibly mention Nick McDonell too (I’ll see about that) for a discussion on the different paths to publication. Reekles got picked up from Wattpad, while Hibbert started self-publishing in 2017.

So far, I like this more than ‘The Kissing Booth’ perhaps because its envisioned reader is probably my age or older, rather than younger. It also feels like Hibbert grasped the technicalities of prose a lot better than Reekles or that the editing process was slightly different - I would assume that an editor couldn’t do much with a book that was already out there and popular.