Abrams is also being watched as a potential contender in Georgia’s gubernatorial race in 2022, after being narrowly defeated by Gov. Abrams’ success as a fiction writer comes as the activist’s election work has been thrust into the spotlight amid a nationwide voting rights battle, as GOP legislators in states across the country-including Abrams’ home state of Georgia-have imposed controversial new voting restrictions in the wake of the presidential election. Her work as a romance writer has galvanized others in the industry to support Abrams’ central issue of voting rights, with several novelists forming the group Romancing the Runoffs ahead of the Georgia Senate runoff elections in January and ultimately raising nearly half a million dollars for Fair Fight, the New Georgia Project, and Black Voters Matter as of December. Supreme Court Justice Howard Wynn has few family ties to. Though Abrams’ most recent Selena Montgomery novel was published in 2009, there’s been renewed interest in the books in the midst of Abrams’ political rise, and her first three novels will be re-released in 2022. With While Justice Sleeps, Stacey Abrams ( Lead from the Outside) marks her first foray into the political thriller genre-bringing her experience with courts, politics and the justice system to a world of imagined suspense and intrigue with great success.

Key BackgroundĪbrams has long had a side career as a f iction writer, publishing eight romance novels under the pen name Selena Montgomery. The novels will also star law clerk Avery Keene, the protagonist of While Justice Sleeps. While Justice Sleeps has already been optioned to be adapted into a television series-after a “high-stakes bidding war” between studios, Variety reports-and Doubleday and Anchor Books announced Thursday that they’ve contracted with Abrams to publish two more political thrillers.

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