Hot Desk

You’ve Got Mail meets The Hating Game meets The Office in this story of two rival editors fighting for the career opportunity of a lifetime – while sharing the same desk . . .

Rebecca Blume knows two things about Ben Heath- He’s a new editor at a rival publishing division, and he has terrible desk-sharing skills.

What starts as a battle of passive-aggressive Post-it notes escalates after the death of literary titan Edward David Adams, A.K.A. \“the Lion,\” when Rebecca and Ben are thrown into a fierce competition to land his estate.

But when secrets about the Lion emerge, they are forced to ask—what role do they want to play in his legacy?

And most importantly, is their Post-it war actually . . . flirting?

Author Biography

Laura Dickerman has an MA in Fiction from NYU and an MA in English from Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English. She was an intern at The Paris Review many years ago. At her lowest point, she spent a month temping for her younger brother Colin at Grove/Atlantic where he was critical of her photocopying skills. She’s been a high school English teacher, bookclub leader, tutor, and recipient of an NEH grant. She currently lives in Atlanta with her husband. They have two grown daughters. Hot Desk is her first novel.