Comic novels set in the Vermont Statehouse, where the stakes are low, the egos are not, and nothing works the way the civics textbook promised.
Will Graves is a pen name. That's the most you're going to get out of him on the subject — but he knows how these buildings actually work, and he finds them very funny.
A series about the people who actually run the place — the staff, the fixers, the well-meaning amateurs, and the one dog who believes the building belongs to him.
A trailer full of dead chickens. A dog named Baxter with a three-year rap sheet. A candidate who accidentally became a frog meme. It's election season in Vermont, and fixer Cal Deegan has seen it all before — which is exactly the problem.
A divided caucus. A faithful assistant. And a small plane that has no business being in the air. Cal's job is simple: keep the Vermont Senate's narrow majority from tearing itself apart. The majority has other ideas.
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Will Graves is a pen name, which is the most you're going to get out of him on the subject.
He knows how these buildings actually work — the floor votes, the caucus math, the senator who's been talking to a lobbyist about Red Sox tickets for forty-five minutes — and he finds them very funny.
"The stakes are low. The egos are not. And nothing works the way the civics textbook promised."
He writes from New England. If he had a dog, it would be named Teddy or Franklin. Not Bernie. Bernie isn't a great name for a dog.
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No spam. No nonsense. Just a quiet heads-up when there's something new to read.