Employing a male first-person narrator in this first work of fiction published under her own name is also a kind of literary vanishing trick.

This reads like a work of fiction to me, and if there's one thing that gets my dander up it's being taken for a ride.

It would be insulting to dedicate a work of fiction, essentially a work of entertainment, to them.

Any work of fiction would struggle to satisfy those expectations.

It was his first work of fiction.