In My Mailbox: Week of June 27th
Title: Welcome to My Life
Author: Micheline McAllister
Received: From Micheline McAllister
Synopsis: Lights, camera, action! Samantha Kelly is a thirty something personal assistant working in Hollywood, and still looking for the perfect role as an adored girlfriend with a balanced checkbook, good friends, and all the respect she deserves. But somehow, she’s caught in a world where she working fourteen hour days, her boyfriends are cheating, her bosses are completely crazy, and her friends aren’t quite to be trusted. Even worse, as the glamour quotient in her life goes up, her bank account begins to skyrocket down. As she moves from being a personal assistant to becoming an actress, and from boyfriend to boyfriend, she begins to slowly rescript her life. But can she make a fairytale come true and find the life she’s meant to lead? And will that life have the happy ending Sam’s so desperate for? This is a brash and funny account of Hollywood, told by an author who lived through it. Full of insider information about the entertainment world and its denizens, and peppered with a roster of famous names, this is smart and savvy chick lit with a Hollywood pedigree.
Title: Love You, Love Your Work, Let’s Do Lunch!
Author: Micheline McAllister
Received: From Micheline McAllister
Synopsis: Love You, Love Your Work, Letas Do Lunch! is about a talented teleplay writer, Ashling Donovan, who moves from Des Moines to L.A. to live with her boyfriend. Unfortunately, she doesnat have the proper Hollywood connections to get a writing job on a television show, so reluctantly she takes a position as a production assistant. When, unexpectedly, she splits up with her boyfriend, she finds herself looking for a place to live and having to make her own future as a writer. She comes up with a brilliant idea and tells one lie that changes her entire world. Just like that, she is a head writer, creator of a new show, and her own personal assistant. Can this girl from Iowa make a career for herself living a double life and find happiness again?
Title: Tuesday Tells it Slant
Author: Holly Christine
Received: Amanda Parker- BookSparks PR
Synopsis: Tuesday Morning has always been a little… different. She’s kept a diary since 1989 and while researching for her senior seminar paper on Emily Dickinson’s Transcendental tendencies, reads a poem that will change her life. And not just her future. Tuesday changes her past. We all have secrets and skeletons in our closets, but Tuesday has managed to clean hers out with a pen and a diary. Just how precious is our past? And how much has our past created what we are today? How far would you go to forget your past? Tuesday Tells it Slant is a story about the tension between one’s past and personal dreams with a uniquely purposed presentation.
