Not a think-piece. Not a course. A realistic novel about someone with your job navigating the next five years — calibrated to your profession in two minutes.
One profession per novel. Same rigorous research spine, a protagonist who has your job, your industry's real tools and real pressures.
A senior accountant watches the close process shrink from ten days to one — and has to decide what she becomes next.
A marketing manager whose CEO says one new tool can replace the whole team. He's wrong — but not in the way she hopes.
An associate builds a strategy deck in a weekend — then meets the partner who billed it at three weeks.
When the org chart loses its middle, a 20-year PM discovers what was never in the Gantt chart.
Every week, readers tell me what situation their profession is living through — and I write the next book from the best suggestion. Suggest it, and if I pick yours: the book is free, and your name goes in the acknowledgments.
Suggest this week's story on X →"The recruiter who has to hire her own replacement's vendor." — suggested by a reader in Ohio. Delivered Friday.
New commission every TuesdayThree steps, one evening.
Each novel is built on research into how that field is actually changing — the tools, the org changes, the timelines.
Seniority, industry, city. The story adjusts so the pressures are yours, not generic.
EPUB + PDF in your inbox in minutes. About three hours of reading. You'll know where you stand — and what the character did about it.
The sample is the real thing — first three chapters of The Reconciliation, full calibration included.
Get the free sampleI'm Claire Aubert, a novelist. I write about people at a turning point — the job, the doubt, the decision — and what they learn about themselves along the way. I went looking for a book that would tell me honestly what the next few years hold for someone with my job. It didn't exist; everything was either a breathless think-piece or a textbook. Fiction does what neither can: it lets you live the change before it happens to you.
Every book starts with real research into one profession — what the tools do today, what the org charts show, what people in the field say out loud and what they only say anonymously. Then I write a novel with a protagonist who has your job.
When I'm not writing, I'm playing the cello, which taught me most of what I know about practice, patience, and the difference between knowing a thing and being able to do it.