Three elder stateswomen in the music industry, scarred by scandal, addiction, and forced retirement, go all in to create a killer comeback album.
Wild Flowers
by Merie Robie
Genre: Contemporary Women’s Fiction
Three elder stateswomen in the music industry, scarred by scandal, addiction, and forced retirement, go all in to create a killer comeback album. As they learn to trust themselves and dive back into songwriting, they entwine their lives and voices in ways they couldn’t have imagined alone.
Everyone has forgotten about soul singer Honey Conaway, except that she stabbed a producer’s eye out at a party and left drunk and stumbling like some glitzy Medea. Everyone loves Gloria Redmond: Girls grew up listening to her country-tinged, smart-alecky tunes, but she has become irrelevant past her prime. And everyone knows Sian Star, not for her time fronting the pop band The Whirlygirls, but for driving a red Porsche into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. When these three women create an award-winning comeback album together, each is challenged by the version of herself that pushed her out of the spotlight in the first place.
What readers are saying:
“A beautiful novel about three vibrant, memorable women who refuse to abandon their passion for music despite their struggles with aging, caretaking, and the frustration of thwarted dreams. Gloria, Honey, and Sian are an inspiring reminder that nothing is over until it’s over.”
Jane Delury, Author of Hedge
“Drop the needle on this power chord of a novel and feel it pull you in. A resonant story about friendship, songwriting, and serendipity, and about how all of us, even aging country stars, can reinvent ourselves.” — Elisabeth Cohen, author of The Glitch.
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Meri Robie is a writer and editor living in Baltimore. Her novel Wildflowers will be published by Watertower Press in 2025. Her play, “Light Strikes a Deal” was included in the Rapid Lemon Theater’s Variations on Night festival (2025), and she earned Honorable Mention for the 2023 Page One Contest by Gutsy Great Novelist (gutsygreatnovelist.com). She is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. You can find her volunteering as an usher for various Baltimore theater productions, driving Baltimore School for the Arts students to local art events, or scribbling away notes in the front seat of her car at stop lights.
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Love the title - makes me want to read the book.
Sounds good; thanks for the chance
I would enjoy reading this one. Sounds like a good story.
This sounds like an interesting story.
nice cover
this sounds like a great story
Looks like a good read
This sounds like a great read and I like the cover.
Sounds like a book I will enjoy reading.
Intense story line; thanks for the chance.
Nice cover
Vibrant cover! I love Wildflowers!
Hope it does great!
I like the cover and the genre. It sounds like an intriguing book.
I enjoyed reading this well done excerpt!
Thank you for sharing it.
I can see where an album done by three such difference artists would make a splash and hopefully remind fans of things past the more scandalous parts of their histories.
Hi everyone! I'm thrilled that the story sounds exciting -- it really was for me!
A little bit about the book: Even though it's about three main artists, it's about a bunch of amazing, talented women and what the music industry takes from them. It's also about relationships, learning to share the spotlight, and learning to trust people competing with you. I'm so happy that the stories of these women are out in the world. If you read Wildflowers, please let me know what you think of them!
What an appropriate title!
This sounds like an interesting book and I also like the cover.
I love the cover for Wild Flowers. Thanks for the giveaway!
I like the book cover.
I enjoy stories with strong female characters.
What an interesting story about strong female characters!
The book cover is very pretty. I like that you used the color red.
I'm looking forward to reading it.
This book sounds like one that will keep me interested and reading for sure and I love the cover too.
This book sounds like a great read
I really like the cover, simple yet effective
Amazing Title!
I so enjoyed reading this great excerpt.
Thank you for sharing it.
I like stories about overcoming adversity and persistence.
I love the simplicity of the book cover.
looks like a fun one.
Sounds like a very relevant book about womenhood.
What is your favorite part of the writing process?
Superb cover
I like the microphone in the middle of the flowers. Congratulations on your book.
This sounds like a great Contemporary Women’s Fiction book. I like the cover.
Should be an interesting read.
Sounds like a good book.
Sounds like a powerful power-grabbing read!
Sounds interesting, and the cover has me interested to learn more.
Did you have any specific country singers in mind when you wrote about each character?
Sounds like a very interesting book! Look forward to reading it!