Lip Service

About this book

Lip Service (1998, 285 pages) is M.J. Rose's debut, originally self-published before Pocket Books picked it up -- one of the first self-published novels to cross over to a major imprint, and part of why Rose later became a founding figure in self-publishing advocacy and a co-founder of International Thriller Writers. It's frank, psychologically-driven fiction about desire and the gap between what people want and what they're allowed to admit wanting.