“The Devil Wears Scrubs” by Freida McFadden: This bestselling novelist’s first novel has a protagonist with an italicized voice in her head:

To buy a sandwich in the hospital cafeteria, newly minted intern, Dr. Jane McGill, borrows cash from Sexy Surgeon and thinks, “The last thing I want is to owe money to Sexy Surgeon, no matter how great he looks in blue scrubs” (1 p. 33), which is followed by the warning from an italicized voice in her head:

“Jane, stop staring at Sexy Surgeon and eat your lunch. Right now, Jane!” (1, p. 33).

Comment: To repeat, her own thought is followed by the italicized command from a voice in her head. Thus, there are two speakers, her self and the voice in her head, the latter of which which I attribute to a creative, alternate personality, as discussed in many past posts of this blog (search “italicized voices" in this blog).

1. Freida McFadden. The Devil Wears Scrubs. © 2013 by Freida McFadden.

2. Wikipedia. “Freida McFadden.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freida_McFadden

“Alchemised,” a novel by SenLinYu: Front Flap says protagonist has “inexplicable memory loss”; back flap indicates author is nonbinary; both suggestive of Multiple Personality Disorder (a.k.a. Dissociative Identity Disorder).

Memory gaps are a cardinal symptom of multiple personality (2), and many persons with multiple personality have both male and female alternate personalities (2).

1. SenLinYu. Alchemised. New York, Del Rey, 2025.

2. Frank W. Putnam, MD, Diagnosis and Treatment of Multiple Personality Disorder. New York, The Guilford Press, 1989. 

“The Mind of Your Story” by Lisa Lenard-Cook: Fiction Writers may have a natural, creative form of multiple personality

“Perhaps I’m lucky: I’ve got voices in my head, and when one of these voices begins speaking, it’s all my 120-words-per minute can do to keep up. Plus my characters arrive with names, biographies, even astrological signs. If you prefer not to be a veritable Sybil of fiction, however, you’ll want to create biographies for your characters before you begin” (1, p. 14).

Comment: Sybil was a famous case of multiple personality.

1. Lisa Lenard-Cook. The Mind of Your Story (discover what drives your fiction). Writers’s Digest Books, 2008.

Old News About President Trump’s Lies by Barbara A. Res —Praised by Trump on the back cover! (Added next day! See below!)

1. Barbara A. Res. Tower of Lies: What My 18 Years of Working With Donald Trump Reveals About Him, Los Angeles, CA, Graymalkin Media, 2020, pp. 273.

Back Cover: "Barbara has represented me with the utmost integrity and professionalism. She is well respected throughout the industry." Donald J. Trump