Megan Fitzgerald Beck is a novelist and professional researcher who writes commercially oriented, emotionally compelling fiction with a strong sense of time and place. She is currently seeking representation for her debut novel, An Unconventional Love Story.
About An Unconventional Love Story
Set to a soundtrack of burned CDs, AIM chats, and early internet static, this coming-of-age love story unfolds across the late 1990s and 2000s. It follows Tony and Jen, two unlikely friends who orbit each other through adolescence, college, and the confusing stretch of early adulthood. Tony is neurodivergent, brilliant, and music-obsessed. Jen is emotionally self-contained, shaped by a quiet kind of instability at home. What begins as a teenage collision slowly deepens into a relationship that might be love—but never quite in the ways anyone expects.
With a strong sense of time and place spanning the suburbs of our youth, Chicago and New York City, An Unconventional Love Story tracks two people who grow up side-by-side but never in sync. It is a story about timing, creative longing, and the slow unraveling of the soulmate myth.
Before turning to fiction, Megan co-founded a research firm, Curvejumping, where she has interviewed thousands of people for iconic brands to understand the emotional and behavioral patterns behind consumer decisions. That same instinct for character, nuance, and pattern recognition now shapes her fiction.
Megan brings not only a writer’s voice, but also a marketer’s eye for story, audience, and opportunity. She lives in Bend, Oregon with her husband and two young children. A second novel, Unknowing, is underway.
About Unknowing
UNKNOWING is a meticulously researched novel that follows parallel narratives across time: Esther Greenberg, a pioneering female mountaineer in the early 1900s conducting secret scientific experiments during her expeditions, and Samantha Jack, a contemporary UCLA scientist struggling to secure funding for groundbreaking consciousness research. Set against the backdrop of the peaks of Wyoming, Alaska and the Ande and modern-day Los Angeles, this dual-timeline story explores how we exist in a world too small for our spirits. As their stories unfold across time, the connections between these two women's quests will emerge in unexpected ways.