Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page.

Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop Capitol Hill in rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Alexis Austin is fixing the plumbing, the tea, and all the problems of the world, it seems, in her landlady mother’s absence.

The quirky tenants—a hilarious mix of misfits and rabble-rousers from days gone by—rely on Alexis all the more when they discover a plot to sell the Hotel. Can Alexis save their home? Find her real father? Deal with her surrogate dad’s dicey past? Find true love? Perhaps only their feisty pet crow, Habib, truly knows.

Provoking interesting questions about the creative process, this novel is by turns funny, scary, witty, suspenseful, beautiful, thrilling, and unexpected.

In a stunning, never-before-attempted marathon of literary wonder, thirty-six well-known authors in the Northwest gathered together to write a complete novel in just six days, live before an audience. Organized by Garth Stein and Jennie Shortridge of Seattle7Writers, the project was designed to raise funds for literacy organizations 826 Seattle and Seattle Arts & Lectures, invigorating the local reading and writing community in the process.

With each author writing a chapter, cheered on by a live audience and supported by writer lifelines, the project raised $10K for literacy programs and completed with a 60,000-word epic, cross-genre novel by some of the best writers out there.

Hotel Angeline: A Novel in 36 Voices is the finished product.