Girl Gone Wild

The Hollywood Misadventures of a Small Town Girl

by Courtney Kocak

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Pub Date 1 Apr 2026 | Archive Date 17 Oct 2026

Trio House Press | Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members' Titles

Biographies & Memoirs | Essays & Collections | OwnVoices

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Description

Reviewed in Publisher's Weekly and featured on multiple podcasts, including Memoir Nation and Let's Talk Memoir: Tales of ambition, delusion, drugs, sex, and misogyny... including selling T-shirts on the Girls Gone Wild bus

GIRL GONE WILD is a collection of exploits and delusions about chasing your dreams with reckless abandon and what happens when their pursuit becomes a new kind of trap. In this memoir-in-essays, Kocak takes readers along on her heady metamorphosis from girl to woman and from dreamer to professional artist, as she is transformed in this unwitting feminist coming-of-age. It's a wild, cringeworthy, and often heartbreaking tale, but with Kocak's wry wit and clear-eyed accounting, it's nothing short of captivating.

A Note From the Publisher

Additional Book Formats with (ISBN-13):
e-book: 9781949487725

Advance Praise

"Girl Gone Wild is fiery, sparkly, spicy. It's brash. It's just-wild. It's a fire sign on the page."

–CHLOE CALDWELL, author of Women and Trying

"A riveting account told with irresistible vulnerability and mastery."

—ANTONIA CRANE, author of Spent

"Nobody tells a story like Courtney Kocak... She has an exceptional ability to blend humor with the depth of human emotion."

—BASSEY IKPI, New York Times bestselling author of I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying

"Courtney Kocak's writing is fresh, funny, and unapologetically feminist-like hanging out with your smartest friend with the best stories."

—HALLEY SUTTON, author of The Lady Upstairs and The Hurricane Blonde

"Girl Gone Wild is fiery, sparkly, spicy. It's brash. It's just-wild. It's a fire sign on the page."

–CHLOE CALDWELL, author of Women and Trying

"A riveting account told with irresistible...

Marketing Plan

*National book tour in spring, summer, and fall of 2026

*Podcast and radio appearances

*ALA Conference Chapter 1 Stage

*CALIBA Spring Conference featured author

*MIBA Spring Road Trip featured author

*National book tour in spring, summer, and fall of 2026

*Podcast and radio appearances

*ALA Conference Chapter 1 Stage

*CALIBA Spring Conference featured author

*MIBA Spring Road Trip featured author

Available Editions

EDITION	Paperback
ISBN	9781949487541
PRICE	$24.99 (USD)
PAGES	322

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