The manuscript has opinions. Grammarly has revisions. The algorithm has no sympathy. The characters rejected the outline. By lunch, the manuscript had unionized.

The Manuscript Objects: A Writer Under Protest is a collection of thirty-one short, self-aware dispatches from the peculiar civil war that breaks out whenever a writer tries to finish a book. Marie Grace turns blank pages, dyslexia, rogue punctuation, query letters, metadata, mutinous plots, and Olympic-level procrastination into comedy—without resolving a single conflict.

For authors, editors, teachers, readers, and anyone who has ever explained a plot while gesturing wildly and still been asked, "But what's it about?"

Imagination, technology, and the publishing system all claim to be in charge. None will take the blame.