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Paula Weiss

 

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First name
Paula
Last name
Weiss
Organization
Northern Virginia Writers Club
 

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Bio
Paula Weiss lives in Annandale, Virginia, with her husband and two cats. She is the author of The Antifan Girlfriend (2020) and The Deplorable Underground (2023). You can find her essays and short stories on her website, www.braeburnbooks.com
 

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VWC Chapter (if any)
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 - Website
Work 1 - Description
Malia mourns the loss of her small daughter, kidnapped by the government. She spends her days alone safeguarding forbidden books in the False Knowledge Depository in Anacosta, formerly Washington DC. When an illegal reader uses the library, an Antifan Defense Forces squad crashes into Malia's quiet sanctuary to drag him off, and Malia fears she will be sent to prison. Instead, David, the squad's handsome commander, falls for her. David swears to Malia that he will recover her child, and then they will escape across the border into the still-free United States. But the search for the chil draws Malia into the orbit of sinister bureaucrats conducting truth serum experiments on low Social Crediteers such as herself. The Antifans turn Malia to spy on the bureaucrats, while striving 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 - Website
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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