She is also driven and wants to be more than her circumstances would suggest she could become. She's got a mother who struggles with drug addiction and she's her mother's primary caretaker. She's cynical, but she loves her friends. On the main character, a Supreme Court clerk named AveryĪvery is smart and guarded. And now I'm in a place where the purchasing power of my writing is slightly higher and I appreciate it.

I used to say when I wrote my romance novels, I could pay car notes but not buy a car. Turns out those are not genres for me, but I see it both as a passion, but it's also an avocation. I went through a teenage phase where I wrote Christian rock and country music. I learned to write almost as soon as I learned to read. and we we were able to get it done.' Interview Highlights 'I would tell him, just ignore the pings on your computer that will happen around 2:00 or 3:00 a.m. 'Luckily, I started the book more than a decade ago and I had an extraordinary editor,' she says. She's been writing romance novels since her time at Yale Law School - but she managed to write this new thriller in the midst of the 2020 election cycle, in which she played a pivotal role. 'And I said, no, I'd never really given it thought that Article III, which is the only provision in the Constitution that gives someone a lifetime appointment, has no failsafe for a person being physically unable to do the job.' 'One day she was just musing about this strange phenomenon in the Constitution, and she asked me if I had ever thought about it for a book,' Abrams recalls. Yes, that Stacey Abrams, the Georgia politician, and she's written a thriller ripped straight from the headlines - inspired by a conversation over lunch with her mentor. A Supreme Court justice is gravely ill, ideological control of the court hangs in the balance - throw in a ruthless president and an international conspiracy, and what you have is the plot of Stacey Abrams's new novel, While Justice Sleeps.

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