“Ladies of the Canyon”: An Experiment in Pivoting

The story is more connected with the series than the book. The story picks up in 1998 not long after Billy Dunne submits his daughter Julia Dunne’s documentary about “DJATS” to a VH1-type channel, which picks it up for broadcast on July 4th weekend. Fan-favorite characters like Simone Jackson are broadened, and the story moves forward with how Julia and her GenX and Millennial friends and peers working behind the scenes deal with the rapidly changing music, television, publishing, and tech industries. Later in the series, Julia’s musically talented daughter forms her own groundbreaking all-female band.