The Rebel Writer™
I write to ignite.
Psychological thrillers. Political sci-fi. Historical fiction. Memoir. Southern humor. Arlene Rotter spent 41 years in classrooms, earned a Ph.D., founded a school, and survived things that should have ended her. Now she writes full time, by one rule: if it’s honest, if it teaches, if it makes people think, she writes it.
A Novel
The Mind Bender Files
Arlene Rotter
Seeking representation
Arlene is seeking literary representation. Every manuscript below is complete, and synopses and sample pages are available on request.
A Novel
The Mind Bender Files
Arlene Rotter
Psychological Thriller · Complete manuscript
A thirteen-year-old assassin waits calmly under a streetlight for the police to arrive. He calls himself Hawk. He serves a man called Dominus. And somewhere beneath the conditioning, the boy he used to be is not yet gone.
“The sirens came too late to matter. By the time their wail cut through the narrow, dark alley, the boy had already made his decision.”
A Novel
The Presaged
Arlene Rotter
Psychological Thriller · Complete
A psychological thriller about a narcissistic psychopath, and the charm, control, and wreckage he leaves in other people's lives.
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The Probability of US
Arlene Rotter
Contemporary Fiction · Complete
Arlene's newest and most personal novel. Drawn from her own life in her seventies on a Georgia farm, it is about love, risk, and the courage to begin again.
Request the manuscriptRebel author of all genres
“I am not a one-genre writer. I don’t fit in one box, one category, or one lane. If a thought sparks an idea, I run with it.”
Literary Techno-Thriller
An elite school run by artificial intelligence produces perfect students, until a gifted teacher starts noticing the ones who go missing.
Political Suspense Thriller
America elects its first artificial-intelligence president, and discovers it can't be unplugged.
Memoir
A coma. A four percent chance of survival. A trauma buried for decades. And the moment she woke into her true voice.
Memoir · Southern Humor
Southern wisdom, humor, and hard-won lessons on the words we choose, and the excuses we need to stop feeding.
“For more than 40 years, I stood at the front of classrooms, auditoriums, and conference halls teaching thousands of students and educators how to think, lead, listen, question, and rise. Now I take that same fire to the page.”
Dr. Arlene Rotter is The Rebel Writer™, the author of more than 25 books spanning psychological thrillers, political sci-fi, historical fiction, memoir, and Southern humor. A retired Ph.D. educator who spent 41 years in classrooms and founded her own school, she now writes full time from Tallapoosa, Georgia, with one rule: if it’s honest, if it teaches, if it makes people think, she writes it.
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