by Scot Rogers
In Mean, Mean Women: A Gay Man’s Nightmare, Scot Rogers delivers a darkly witty exploration of ambition, family manipulation, and the quiet cruelty hidden beneath red lipstick.
As Grant Ashford flies to Missouri to see his dying aunt before it is too late, he begins to realize that the fractures within the women in his family run deeper than grief alone.
His thoughts drift back to another woman decades earlier.
It is 1988, and fresh out of college, Grant steps into his first “real” job — eager, ambitious, and wholly unprepared for the woman waiting behind the office doors. Brilliant, magnetic, and impossible to refuse, she presides over a workplace where loyalty is currency and power is exercised with unnerving precision. Every glance carries calculation. Every expectation is laced with invisible strings. What begins as a promising opportunity slowly transforms into a carefully controlled psychological environment.
Amid the growing pressures of his new role, Grant finds an unexpected connection with Jon, a charismatic IT specialist whose warmth and authenticity open the possibility of real love — and a more honest, unguarded life.
As past and present collide, Grant is forced to confront a devastating truth: some people do not merely resent happiness or success — they build entire identities around destroying it in others.
Spanning decades, the novel explores how emotional control within families and workplaces shapes identity, loyalty, and survival. Mean, Mean Women: A Gay Man’s Nightmare, the new novel from author Scot Rogers is scheduled for release on June 26, 2026.
About the Author
Drawing from extensive experience in advertising and entertainment, Scot Rogers brings a sharp perspective on ambition, authority, and interpersonal power dynamics.
He is the author of Welcome to the Shitshow, My Family of Hicks, My Family of Hicks: Tu, and My Family of Hicks: We. Scot Rogers is also the author of I Am an Empath – And Somehow Survived, available on Substack.
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