In a scene in Hitting the Sauce, Lucy asks Angie why she broke up with her boyfriend. Angie replies with:

“I don’t want to be involved with a man who explains uncomfortable situations by saying he has a long story with his ex-.”

“He really said that?” Lucy asked.

“Yes.”

“What did you say?”

“That I didn’t want to be a subplot.”

The scene is a pun because Angie is a subplot in that book. But then I grew to like the Angie character and I started feeling guilty. So to make amends with an imaginary person in my head, here is Angie, front and center as the protagonist in her own series of stories.

What You Tell Yourself, by Lisa Shiroff

What Others Tell You, also by me (who else, right?).