Courtney Maum Books in Order

English artist Richard Haddon’s professional success arrives as an affair wrecks his marriage. Moving between Paris and London, he attempts to win back his wife Anne while confronting his failures and reconsidering what it means to sustain love after betrayal.

Trend forecaster Sloane Jacobsen joins a technology company promoting a future of virtual connection and childless living. When she begins predicting a renewed desire for human contact, her findings clash with her employer’s plans and expose the emotional distance in her own life.

In 1937, an American heiress brings endangered European artists to an isolated Mexican retreat. Her fifteen year old daughter Lara, overlooked amid the adults’ rivalries, seeks affection and artistic direction. Inspired by Peggy Guggenheim and her daughter, the novel explores ambition and neglect.

Courtney Maum guides writers through completing a manuscript, pursuing publication, and adapting to life after a book deal. Practical publishing questions sit alongside the emotional demands of ambition, money, professional relationships, comparison, and building a sustainable career as an author.

Struggling with depression and insomnia at thirty seven, Courtney Maum returns to horseback riding after a thirty year absence. Her memoir follows this effort to recover agency and well being, interweaving personal experience with the history of women’s relationships with horses.

After a disastrous advertising pitch, Alan Anderson abandons consumerism and moves into his family's backyard playhouse. His attempt to live off the land threatens his wife's social ambitions, while the neighbors begin taking an unexpected interest in his experiment.