August Kay · Projects

What I'm writing.

01 · Upmarket Contemporary Romance · In Revision

The Cambridge Blueprint (working title)

She's thirty-three, eleven years into a career she was good at, and starting Cambridge Law with a spreadsheet for everything except him. He's twenty-two, building a company he can't afford, and losing arguments to her on purpose. Neither of them would call this a love story. They're both very smart, and both wrong.

Status
01OutlineDone
02DraftDone
03RevisionIn progress
04Query—

Updated as the manuscript moves.

Concept cover for The Cambridge Blueprint — two figures on a terrace above the river, King’s College in the distance, blueprints and a laptop on the table. “Different lives. Same curiosity.”
02 · Contemporary Romance · In Revision

More Coffee Please (working title)

Two divorced parents in their forties, each rebuilding a life the careful way — engineered so that nothing unplanned can ever happen to them again. Then something unplanned happens to them again, and this time it can't unsee what they actually want.

Status
01OutlineDone
02DraftDone
03RevisionIn progress
04Query—

Updated as the manuscript moves.

A café window at golden hour — "More Coffee Please" lettered on the glass above a coffee cup and an open laptop, "August Kay" on the panel below.
03 · Upmarket Contemporary Fiction · In Development

The solo-trip novel

She booked a trip alone without telling anyone. Three thousand miles from the life she built around making decisions for everyone else — and no one left to decide for.

04 · Literary Fiction · In Development

K-Dinner Club (working title)

Once a month, in an American suburb, a group of Korean immigrant mothers meets for dinner — a potluck at someone’s house or a table at a restaurant, and the same agenda either way: the families around them, thoroughly discussed. But every woman at that table has a story she isn’t bringing to dinner. A literary novel about the lives that get talked about — and the ones that don’t.

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