Who doesn't enjoy a "Pay the Price for Fame and Fortune" tale?!

I enjoyed reading "Dear Committee Members" and "The Shakespeare Requirement" by Julie Schumacher, and The Plot is a more suspenseful, dark version of that setting. Furthermore, I'm in academia and it's super-fun to read books that "get" that setting, from its glories to its frustrations, from its pressures to its absurdities. The Plot reads a bit like literary fiction (as it should given its main character, really), and the reader doesn't get into the darkness of it from the preview, but there's excitement about the darkness ahead, especially if it reads as well as the preview and is well-crafted.