The books
More than 25 books written: thrillers and political sci-fi, historical fiction, memoir, Southern humor, and books about how people learn. Here is the shelf so far.
New fiction
Complete manuscripts, currently with literary agents. Agents and editors can request full manuscripts, synopses, and sample pages.
Agent & publisher informationA Novel
The Mind Bender Files
Arlene Rotter
Psychological Thriller
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.
A Novel
The Presaged
Arlene Rotter
Psychological Thriller
A psychological thriller about a narcissistic psychopath, and the charm, control, and wreckage he leaves in other people's lives.
A Novel
The Probability of US
Arlene Rotter
Contemporary Fiction
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.
Published
Control, conscience, and what machines and manipulators can’t take from us.
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.
Published
Old Marines, small towns, and the people history forgets to ask.
Historical Fiction
Five old Marine buddies. A town called Jist West. True stories of justice that was expected, deserved, and denied.
Published
Survival, faith, Southern wit, and the long work of beginning again.
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.
Memoir
An overachiever, a coma, and a choice. Arlene's first account of the near-death experience that changed her life.
Spiritual Memoir
A lifelong Jewish woman follows her questions about Jesus wherever they lead.
Published
Four decades of classroom wisdom on how people actually learn.
Education
The case for experiential learning, from an educator who built a school around it.
Children’s books, mystery fiction, and educational stories written across four decades in the classroom. More titles are coming to this page soon.
While running her school, Arlene also edited Chrysalis Experiential Academy First Authors: Original Student Writings (2004), a collection of her students’ own work.
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