Updated
Updated · Forbes · Aug 8
MacKenzie Scott Self-Publishes 80,000-Word Third Novel on Substack After 13-Year Gap
Updated
Updated · Forbes · Aug 8

MacKenzie Scott Self-Publishes 80,000-Word Third Novel on Substack After 13-Year Gap

3 articles · Updated · Forbes · Aug 8

Summary

  • MacKenzie Scott said she will release “Last Days in Two Nations (A History in Eighteen Minds)” in installments on Substack throughout August, sharing the title page, table of contents, character list and epigraphs.
  • The book is an 80,000-word novel, and Scott has offered few plot details beyond urging readers to “read and subscribe” to follow the serial publication.
  • The release marks Scott’s first novel since 2013; her 2005 debut, “The Testing of Luther Albright,” won an American Book Award and made the Los Angeles Times Best of the Year list.
  • Scott, worth an estimated $33.8 billion, is better known for giving away more than $26 billion since her 2019 divorce from Jeff Bezos than for her fiction career.

Insights

Will MacKenzie Scott’s unexpected return to self-published fiction signal a shift away from her multibillion-dollar philanthropic empire?
What hidden truths about extreme wealth might MacKenzie Scott reveal in her first novel in over a decade?
How does a famously private billionaire use a serialized Substack novel to communicate what her vast fortune cannot?