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About the Author Book Club Kit Press & Media
About the Author

M. E. Hollis

M. E. Hollis, author of The Good Dead of Partridge
M. E. Hollis

M. E. Hollis writes darkly comic mysteries about small towns, bad choices, and the stubborn possibility of redemption.

She grew up in the Missouri Ozarks, where family stories often arrived in three conflicting versions and at least one person warned her not to repeat them. Before turning to fiction, Hollis worked in community newspapers and nonprofit communications. Both taught her how quickly a town's public story can separate from its private truth.

She now lives outside St. Louis with a senior rescue dog, a collection of diner mugs, and enough notebooks to make any investigator nervous.

The Good Dead of Partridge is her debut novel.
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For Book Clubs

Bring Your Group to Partridge.

Ten questions worth arguing about. Three group activities. Host notes for in-person, virtual, and hybrid clubs. Everything you need for a real conversation. Free.

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Book clubs of eight or more, ask about signed bookplates, virtual author visits, and custom discussion sessions.

WHAT'S INSIDE

The Question at the Center

"If the people who caused harm had to return and repair it, would the living forgive them?"

  • Ten discussion questions
  • Three group activities
  • Host notes and low-effort ideas
  • Partridge menu suggestions
  • Character quick guide
  • Opening and closing questions

Ten Questions Worth Arguing About

Choose six for a 60-minute meeting, or use all ten for a longer event.

Roxanne believes she sees people clearly enough to decide who deserves punishment. When does moral certainty become its own form of harm?

Jerry loves Roxanne, fears losing her, and keeps helping her. How much responsibility belongs to the person who follows?

Earl says dying did not change him. It made his shame impossible to ignore. Do you believe remorse was already part of him?

The returned grow stronger through service and weaker through selfishness. If redemption had visible consequences, would it still count as a moral choice?

Sheriff Bell knows who committed the murders, yet the victims cannot accuse their killers. What does justice require when the law and the harmed people point in different directions?

Mabel welcomes the dead before the rest of Partridge does. What makes her response brave, practical, or reckless?

Roxanne thinks punishment should hurt. Jerry begins to see memory and repair as punishment. Which view did the opening chapters make more persuasive?

Partridge starts benefiting from people who caused serious harm. Does useful work earn forgiveness, or does it only begin repayment?

The dead remember emotions more clearly than facts. Which emotional memory would reveal the most about Roxanne, Jerry, or you?

If your group created a mandatory redemption list for Partridge, what harm would you assign, what repair would you require, and who would decide when the work was complete?

The Red Toolbox

Give each person a card. Write one harm a fictional Partridge resident caused on the front. On the back, assign the repair work. Read the cards aloud. Vote on which repair is fair, impossible, or overdue.

Roxanne's List

Two columns. First column, actions that deserve punishment. Second column, actions that might repair harm. Discuss where your group agrees, and where repair feels insufficient.

Mabel's Table Six

One person plays Mabel. Each member arrives as a character and explains why Mabel should serve them coffee, send them away hungry, or make conversation mandatory.

Best Closing Question

Who changed most in your eyes during the opening chapters, the dead, Jerry, Roxanne, or the town?

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For Journalists, Bloggers, Podcasters

Press & Media Kit.

Everything you need to cover The Good Dead of Partridge. Downloadable, quotable, ready to go.

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Media & Press KitFull pitch, synopsis, themes, coverage angles (PDF)
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Media One-PagerQuick reference sheet (PDF)
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Sample Chapters 1-3Read the opening (PDF)
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Quote-Ready BlurbsPublisher-supplied promotional lines (PDF)
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Author BioFour lengths, from one-line to full (PDF)
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High-Res Book CoverJPG, print-quality
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High-Res Author PhotoJPG, print-quality
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Coverage Angles

Ready-made starting points for features and interviews.

  • What if redemption were mandatory?A supernatural rule turns repair into the story's central source of conflict.
  • Writing killers readers keep following.Building tension around Roxanne's certainty and Jerry's complicity without excusing either one.
  • The small town as moral pressure cooker.Why Partridge needs a diner, a sheriff, old secrets, and residents who remember everything.
  • Making zombies useful instead of hungry.Reversing familiar zombie expectations while preserving danger and mystery.
  • Humor beside harm.Using dry comedy to deepen character without treating suffering as a punch line.
  • Repair is not forgiveness.Why service changes the returned but does not erase what they did while alive.
Quote-Ready Blurbs

Publisher-Supplied Promotional Copy.

Publisher lines, not reader reviews.

"Nobody stays dead, and somehow that is the least complicated part."

"The dead do not want revenge. They want to help."

"Welcome to Partridge, where redemption is mandatory and coffee is still optional."

"Their murders are improving the community."

"A darkly funny mystery about guilt, repair, and the people who refuse to remain who they were."

"Some towns bury their secrets. Partridge puts them to work."

And When You're Ready

Come Back to Partridge.

Read Chapter One. Meet the residents. Take the quiz. Get a postcard. Reserve your copy.

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