Holly Jackson’s ‘Not Fairly Lifeless But’ Is the August GMA E book Membership Choose (Unique)

Holly Jackson is moving into new terrain along with her newest novel.

Identified for her younger grownup thrillers, together with the favored BookTok hit A Good Woman’s Information to Homicide, the creator is already a beloved identify inside the style. Her newest ebook, Not Fairly Lifeless But, is the Good Morning America ebook membership’s August choice, and stays true to Jackson’s crime fiction roots.

The novel follows Jet, the daughter of a rich Vermont household who’s brutally attacked one Halloween by an unknown assailant. Jet is given one week earlier than she’ll undergo a deadly aneurysm, and with the clock ticking down till her loss of life, she’s pressured to resolve the thriller of who wished her killed.

Not Fairly Lifeless But can be Jackson’s first novel for adults, the creator shares in a video shared completely with PEOPLE.

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“You’d assume the method could be slightly bit totally different for this ebook, because it’s a brand new market, however really, it was precisely the identical,” Jackson says of writing the novel.

“I method each ebook form of like a screenwriter. I’m very strict about my act construction and ensuring I hit all these beats, so the method — from plotting, planning, writing — it was precisely the identical.”

Jackson says that writing her earlier novels, which additionally embody the AGGTM follow-ups Good Woman, Dangerous Blood and As Good As Lifeless, together with the standalone novel The Reappearance of Rachel Value, proved to be tougher (although she jokes that the most important distinction between genres is that she’s “allowed to make use of a number of extra swear phrases” in grownup fiction.)

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“I feel writing for younger adults is tougher as a result of these readers are so extremely engaged and paying consideration and attempting to work out the plot twists,” Jackson says. “Consequently, I’ve form of needed to degree up every time to maintain forward of my readers.”

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“If something, I feel writing my younger grownup books has been form of a coaching floor to the place I’m now,” she provides. “I’m very excited for readers to deal with my new ebook, and my YA readers are greater than welcome on this new grownup ebook.”

Not Fairly Lifeless But is obtainable now, wherever books are offered.