Gilmore Girls Star Kelly Bishop and I announced our novel, Broad Appeal!
New York Times bestselling author Kelly Bishop, beloved for her acclaimed performances in Gilmore Girls, Dirty Dancing, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and originating the role of Sheila in A Chorus Line, for which she won a Tony, will make her fiction debut with BROAD APPEAL, to be published by William Morrow in Fall 2027 written with New York Times bestselling author Ali Rosen. Filled with sharp wit, unforgettable characters, and keen insights into the complexities of human relationships, the novel marks an exciting new chapter in Bishop’s celebrated storytelling career.
A spirited, big-hearted novel that blends the friendship and humor of The Golden Girls with the banter of Sex and the City, BROAD APPEAL follows four women in their seventies who unexpectedly become roommates in a Manhattan apartment and discover that life’s greatest adventures can happen long after retirement.
At the center of the novel is Roz, a seventy-eight-year-old retired divorcée whose comfortable Upper West Side life is upended when rising housing costs threaten her ability to keep the apartment she loves. Forced to take on roommates, she finds herself sharing her home with an eccentric entomologist sister-in-law, a former trophy wife rebuilding after financial disaster, and a spirited dance teacher she met while protesting gentrification in Spanish Harlem. What begins as a practical arrangement soon becomes an unexpected family, until long-buried secrets, financial pressures, and unresolved heartbreaks test the bonds they’ve built.