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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Hugh Water, who works for an insurance company, sells his screenplay to Gladiator Films, but when the executive who bought his story suddenly dies and his replacement, Hedda Chase, tries to talk the studio out of their purchase, Hugh decides to travel to Hollywood and defend his work.
Author
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
An intensely personal investigation of loss told with intelligence and restraint, Victoria Jenkins' second novel, Cruise Control, is an exploration of space and self, real and unreal, and a noir celebration of language and observation.
6) Captivated
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2008
Language
English
Description
Morgana Donovan, a beautiful woman gifted with extraordinary abilities, proves to Nash Kirkland, a hardheaded skeptic who is using her to research his latest screenplay, that magic really does exist.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Evvie Drake Starts Over meets Beach Read in this heartwarming and hilarious novel about a divorced romance channel screenwriter whose script about her marriage's collapse just might help her reclaim her life and find love." --
"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...
8) Harvest Moon
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Return to Virgin River with the books that started it all ... The recipe for happiness: making it up as you go along Rising sous-chef Kelly Matlock's sudden collapse at work is a wake-up call. Disillusioned and burned out, she's retreated to her sister Jillian's house in Virgin River to rest and reevaluate. Puttering in Jill's garden and cooking with her heirloom vegetables is wonderful, but Virgin River is a far cry from San Francisco. Kelly's starting...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1953, the brilliant but terrifying titan of cinema John Huston summons the young writer Ray Bradbury to Ireland. The apprehensive scribe's quest is to capture on paper the fiercest of all literary beasts -- Moby Dick -- in the form of a workable screenplay so the great director can begin filming. But from the moment he sets foot on Irish soil, the author embarks on an unexpected odyssey. Meet congenial IRA terrorists, tippling men of the cloth...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
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
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Christmas has, indeed, arrived early with this romp."-Booklist
July is a great time to celebrate Christmas! In the wild world of making a TV Christmas movie, a hot and sunny upstate New York summer becomes a winter wonderland, overnight. But as cool as the fake snow is, when the real life hero gets tangled up with the movie star, the screenwriter grapples for control of the story, and the fans become a hazard to life and limb, it'll take a Christmas...
13) Lucky Leap Day
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Up-and-coming screenwriter Cara Kennedy has the biggest meeting of her career in two days-but for now, she's on vacation. Her short trip to Ireland is all planned out:
• See the sites around Dublin
• Don't think about her jerk of an ex she was supposed to spend this trip with
• Relax with some Irish whiskey
• Propose to a sexy Irish musician on Leap Day
• Wake up married
Wait, those last two things weren't on her list...
A whirlwind trip...
Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Helen Zhang hasn't seen Grant Shepard once in the thirteen years since the tragic accident that bound their lives together forever. Now she's in Los Angeles, where the two have to work together. The result is messy, and electrifying.
15) Goodbye L.A
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A screenwriter stage dives into L.A.'s punk rock scene to find a missing reporter as Sinclair mixes "hard-edged realism ... [and] humor" in a "fine" novel (Gerald Petievich, author of To Live and Die in L.A. ). Four years ago, when Capt. George Steifer charged screenwriter Ben Crandel with murder, it didn't look like the beginning of a beautiful friendship. But Hollywood makes strange bedfellows, and now the cop has come to his writer pal for help....
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners and the "delectable, moving" (Entertainment Weekly) My Favorite Half-Night Stand comes a modern love story about what happens when your first love reenters your life when you least expect it... Sam Brandis was Tate Jones's first: Her first love. Her first everything. Including her first heartbreak. During a whirlwind two-week vacation abroad, Sam and Tate fell for each other in only...
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