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.
