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The Best Advice: A Novel

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Pub Date Jul 08 2025 | Archive Date Apr 16 2025

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A contemporary retelling of Shakespeare’s As You Like It.

Meddling in other people’s business is kind of her thing. Rosalind writes a popular advice column in a magazine. When she butts heads with her editor over a controversial letter response, she loses her job and byline. To keep writing, Rosalind establishes a fake identity with a male pen name at the dubious suggestion of her friends.

Retreating to a small town on the water, she starts a new column for a local newspaper. The unexpected online success of her advice writing only serves to exacerbate her bad habit of meddling in real life. This threatens to damage her relationships with family and friends. It also complicates her budding romance with ruggedly handsome travel television star Andy Arden. He’s gorgeous, he’s outdoorsy, and he writes her (terrible) poetry. But he also thinks “Gavin,” the guy giving him relationship advice via text, and his new love interest are two different people…

Rosalind juggles it all because her advice is ALWAYS right. Usually right. Would you settle for sometimes right? Can she outgrow her game-playing and confront her grief in time to untangle the mess she’s made of her personal and professional life?

A finalist in the Pacific Northwest Writer’s Association literary contest.

This is the second book in the “Shakespeare Project” series. The first book is titled How to Align the Stars by Amy Dressler.


A contemporary retelling of Shakespeare’s As You Like It.

Meddling in other people’s business is kind of her thing. Rosalind writes a popular advice column in a magazine. When she butts heads with her...


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A Clever, Modern Spin with Heart and Humor
The Best Advice is a charming, smart retelling of As You Like It that mixes mistaken identity, heartfelt drama, and a whole lot of witty advice-column chaos. Rosalind’s journey from confident columnist to small-town anonymous fixer was full of messy situations and real emotions, and I liked watching her slowly peel back the layers of her own grief and bad habits. The mix of modern romance and Shakespearean undertones really worked for me, especially the way it balanced humor with vulnerability. I stayed up way too late reading this because I just had to see how she’d untangle it all.

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Dear Gavin: You had me fooled—and I LOVED it!
This book is like a rom-com had a fling with Shakespeare and gave birth to pure chaos. 💌🤣 I was totally obsessed with Rosalind’s double-life drama, the juicy texts, and Andy with his terrible poetry (hilariously terrible). I laughed, I cringed, I wanted to shake her and hug her. Honestly, the whole advice-column-gone-wrong thing was genius and had me rooting for Rosalind even when she was making a mess of everything. If you like witty banter, secret identities, and hot guys who hike, this book is for you. 📝💘🌲

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