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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Nora Hamilton knows the formula for love better than anyone. As a romance channel screenwriter, it's her job. But when her too-good-to work husband leaves her and their two kids, Nora turns her marriage's collapse into cash and writes the best script of her life. No one is more surprised than her when it's picked up for the big screen and set to film on location at her 100-year-old-home. When former Sexiest Man Alive, Leo Vance, is cast as her ne'er...
Author
Language
English
Description
Antonia Adams is the product of a loveless marriage between a beautiful young model and an aristocrat. Unprotected and unloved, she learns that the only way to feel safe is to hide from the dangers around her. Her love of the movies turns into a dream to become a screenwriter, and a summer job at a Hollywood studio. There, a famous British filmmaker notices her, and suddenly she can remain invisible no longer. He wants to put her in a movie and make...
4) Harvest moon
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After collapsing at work, sous-chef Kelly Matlock retreats to her sister's home in Virgin River where she meets Lief Holbrook, a widower, and as romance blossoms between them, Lief's stepdaughters antics threaten to tear them apart.
5) Bungalow 2
Author
Language
English
Description
Tanya Harris is torn between her new life as a screenplay writer in Hollywood and her family back home.
Author
Language
English
Description
It is 1914, and twenty-five-year-old Frances Marion has left her (second) husband and her Northern California home for the lure of Los Angeles, where she is determined to live independently as an artist. But the word on everyone's lips these days is "flickers"--the silent moving pictures enthralling theatergoers. Turn any corner in this burgeoning town and you'll find made-up actors running around, as a movie camera captures it all. In this fledgling...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Believing she is realizing her dreams when her sitcom is bought, television writer Ruth Saunders finds her happiness threatened by demanding actors and executives as well as an unrequited crush on her boss and her septuagenarian grandmother's upcoming wedding.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A brilliantly funny and razor-tongued debut which follows a writer lured to Los Angeles to adapt her feminist mermaid novel into a big-budget action film, who believes her heroine has come to life to take revenge for Hollywood's violations. Penelope Schleeman, a consistently broke Connecticut high school teacher, is as surprised as anyone when her sensitive debut novel, 'American Mermaid'--the story of a wheelchair-bound scientist named Sylvia who...
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
There are a few places screenwriter Lou Calabrese would rather be than crammed into a helicopter with Jack Townsend, star of her claim to fame, Copkiller, and whose ex just ran off with Lou's ex. Talk about uncomfortable. But when, halfway out to the isolated arctic location where Copkiller IV is currently shooting, their pilot turns murderous and their helicopter crashes, Lou realizes her day has just gotten a lot worse.
Now, while family and...
Author
Publisher
Silhouette Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
442 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
Once More With Feeling: "Musician Raven Williams was devastated when Brandon Carstairs broke her heart five years ago. Now he's back, asking for her help cowriting the score for a major film--an opportunity she can't refuse. Despite the undeniable heat between them, Raven vows to keep things strictly professional. But it's as if no time has passed at all--and with so much lust hanging between them, it's hard not to melt..." -- Page [4] cover.
Reflections:...
11) Lucky Leap Day
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A whirlwind trip to Ireland is supposed to end with a suitcase full of wool sweaters and souvenir pint glasses, not a husband you only just met! But after one too many whiskeys, fledgling screenwriter Cara Kennedy takes a page out of someone else's script when she gets caught up in the Irish tradition of women proposing on Leap Day. Waking the next morning with a hot guy in her bed and a tin foil ring on her finger was definitely not what she expected...and...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
437, 16 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"It is 1940. France has fallen, and only a narrow strip of sea lies between Great Britain and invasion. The war could go either way; everyone must do their bit. Young copy writer Catrin Cole is drafted into the Ministry of Information to help "write women" into propaganda films. Their latest endeavor is a heartwarming tale of bravery at Dunkirk - fabricated, of course, but the nation's morale is at stake. Since the war has stripped the industry of...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"When an aspiring L.A. scriptwriter falls head-over-heels for a bossy and beautiful movie star after a devastating break-up, the two take a risk on love and cast themselves as the leading ladies of their own star-struck romance in this sweet and spirited love story from critically-acclaimed writer Amy Spalding in her adult debut"--
Since a crushing breakup three years ago, Nina Rice has written romance, friends, her dreams of scriptwriting for TV,...
14) If the boot fits
Author
Series
Publisher
Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Kensington mass market edition.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Determined to sell her screenplay and gain independence from her boss--one of Hollywood's cruelest divas--Amanda Queen decides to have a one-night stand with an Oscar-winning actor, which gives her an unexpected chance to turn that magical night into forever.
Author
Series
Publisher
Waterhouse Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Heather Myles isn't exactly thrilled to accompany her groupie roommate to an Emerald Phoenix concert. The aspiring screen writer would rather be home with a good book. After Susie pleads with her, though, Heather relents. What the heck? Maybe a change of scenery is just what she needs to combat her desolation over getting turned down by yet another small production company. After the performance, Jett Draconis, lead singer and guitarist for the band,...
16) Please stand by
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young woman escapes from her group home hoping to get her Star Trek script produced in Hollywood. With her sister and psychiatrist at her heels, she must conquer a new world full of challenges.
17) Kiss me, cowboy
Author
Publisher
Zebra Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
The Rancher's Wedding: "When a tough Colorado rancher who's in the red meets up with a screenwriter-turned-waitress dogged by scandal, they put their talents--and their hearts--together. But will front page news put a damper on the sparks flying between them?" -- Page [4] cover.
Colorado Cowboy: "Fleeing her mother's killer, Esther Marist ends up at a rugged stranger's cabin. A wildlife rehabilitator with a menagerie that includes an elderly wolf,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Teo Avelar is a loner. He lives with his paraplegic mother and her dog in Rio de Janeiro, he doesn't have many friends, and the only time he feels honest human emotion is in the presence of his medical school cadaver--that is, until he meets Clarice. She's almost his exact opposite: exotic, spontaneous, unafraid to speak her mind. An aspiring screenwriter, she's working on a screenplay called Perfect Days about three friends who go on a road trip...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
St. Martin's Paperbacks edition.
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Dual Image: "In a role that propelled her to daytime television stardom, Ariel Kirkwood's soap opera character reflects her actual playful personality. So when she gets cast as a devious bombshell in famous screenwriter Booth DeWitt's semiautobiographical film, her dreams of a silver screen career seem assured. Impressed with Ariel's believable portrayal, Booth can only see her as his heartless ex-wife, the basis for the character. Reading between...