TEMPLAND: A novel. A lighthearted-yet-heavy-hitting satire on being young and making a living in America.The heroine, Melanie Evers, is a plucky young working-class woman from Akron, Ohio struggling to support herself in Chicago in the post 9/11 economy.

TEMPLAND follows Melanie's journey through the temporary employment world from a college student on "just a summer job" to a 28-year-old woman with a lot of intelligence (and a heap of student loan debt to match) through multiple layoffs and a series of ever-more-wacky temp assignments, as she struggles not only to survive, but also to find romance and always remain true to the honest, working-class values instilled in her by her beloved grandfather.

In her long, solitary journey through Templand, Melanie encounters adventure and romance on her search for that always-elusive Permanent Job---which she finally gets, along with her man.

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JILL ELAINE HUGHES is a Chicago-based writer of journalism, fiction, and plays. As a reporter, her writing has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Reader, the Washington Post, and numerous regional publications and magazines. Her plays have received professional productions in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, Boston, Chicago, Australia, and the United Kingdom and at high schools and colleges across the United States. She is a published novelist in erotic fiction under the pen names "Jamaica Layne" and "Jay E. Hughes." She recently began self-publishing novel-length fiction under her own name, of which TEMPLAND is the first.

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