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Paula Weiss

 

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First name
Paula
Last name
Weiss
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Northern Virginia Writers Club
 

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Bio
Paula Weiss lives in Annandale, Virginia, with her husband, teenage daughter, and cat. She is the author of The Antifan Girlfriend (2020) and The Deplorable Underground (2023). She is a 29-year employee of the US Government. She has a PhD from the University of Minnesota in political science.
 

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Northern Virginia
 

Speakers' Bureau

Speaker Area(s) of Writing Expertise
  • Fiction (long form)
  • Non-fiction (general)
Other Topic(s) of Expertise
dissertation, academic article writing, nonfiction editing
 

Poems, Novels, Plays, or other Works

Work 1 - Title
The Antifan Girlfriend
Work 1 - Genre
(Fiction & Literature) Literature
Work 1 - Genre (Other)
Spy thriller; dystopian
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Work 1 - Description
It’s now 2089, several decades after civil war has divided America into a Blue socialist dictatorship on the coasts, and the still-free Red flyover country. The woke “Diversity Justice Republic,” a vassal state of China, uses a social credit system that doles out preferential access to food, housing, vacations, and transportation. High credit elites live in luxury, while low credit types live in dormitories, and scramble for crumbs. “Plores,” or Deplorables, are segregated from Crediteers and are forced to do menial work to survive. Gun ownership and Christian preaching are now capital crimes. The American culture that we have known is gone.

Malia is illegally reading the dangerous old books she safeguards from the public as a librarian. She stumbles into a relationship with David, a powerful Antifan Defense Forces commander, whose own Deplorable background distances him from the woke culture. David vows to find Malia's daughter, taken from her years ago by the authorities. The Antifans push Malia into the orbit of sinister bureaucrats conducting lethal experiments on low Social Crediteers under direction from Beijing, even as they try to separate her from David.
Work 2 - Title
The Deplorable Underground
Work 2 - Genre
(Fiction & Literature) Literature
Work 2 - Genre (Other)
Dystopian
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Work 2 - Description
Their mission isn’t over

Malia and David think they’ve escaped the tyrannical Diversity Justice Republic for good. She’s devouring books once forbidden to her. David says he will never kill again. He is trying to learn the ways of the executive suite, wearing a suit rather than the uniform of the brutal Antifan Defense Forces (ADF) he served for many years. The couple is raising their children in suburbia, in the still-free United States.

But they have underestimated the ADF’s zeal to exact revenge for David’s defection. As they are pulled back into the DJR, Malia resists the efforts of ADF Commander Khalid Ma to win her over to Diversity. David is organizing the oppressed Deplorables against the government, but struggles with his attraction to their passionate leader Lucy. He vows they will rescue Malia and prevent her forced wedding to Commander Ma, an operation that will give the Deplorables their first chance in decades to strike back at the heart of the Diverse Power. But he isn’t even sure that Malia—now a celebrity in the DJR—wants to be rescued at all.
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