Moxie Goodwin
Moxie Goodwin writes about people who are doing their absolute best, which would be considerably more reassuring if their best weren’t making everything worse.
Armed with questionable optimism, blue streaks in her hair, and a healthy appreciation for life’s absurdities, Moxie specializes in the spectacular disasters of everyday adulthood. Her humorous contemporary fiction celebrates good intentions, terrible timing, and twenty-somethings discovering that nobody actually knows what they’re doing.
Her five-book Seemed Harmless Enough series proves that even the most reasonable decisions can have spectacularly unreasonable consequences.
Adulthood seemed like a good idea. Nobody mentioned the consequences.
The Seemed Harmless Enough Series
I Wasn’t Supposed to Be in Charge follows a 26-year-old who agrees to cover for her boss for three days and somehow ends up running an entire company—despite being reasonably certain that nobody should have given her this much authority.
Nobody Mentioned the Goat follows a 24-year-old housesitter whose seemingly simple job at a wealthy couple’s home spirals into chaos involving unexpected animals, a suspicious neighbor, and one goat with absolutely no respect for boundaries.
This Is Technically Not My Fault follows a 27-year-old English major whose innocent correction of a deliberately misspelled hotel name accidentally exposes the mayor’s affair, misuse of taxpayer money, and a political scandal she never meant to uncover.
I Have Several Reasonable Explanations follows a 25-year-old assistant wedding coordinator whose perfectly planned wedding spirals into chaos thanks to three people named Jess, a missing black suitcase, and wedding rings that are nowhere to be found.
Please Stop Asking Me Questions follows a meticulous daughter whose perfectly planned fiftieth birthday celebration for her mother unravels into a hilarious disaster involving a zombie, a destroyed cake, a missing dinosaur, and an unexpected police visit.