On Tour: Hollywood Ending by Lucie Simone
Lucie Simone is on tour June 6-20 with her novel Hollywood Ending. Trina Stewart needs cash. Fast. She’s barely got enough dough to keep her…
Future Tour: Hollywood Ending by Lucie Simone
Hollywood Ending is a romantic comedy about life in Hollywood for the not-so-rich-and-famous. Trina Stewart is desperate to find a proper Hollywood job and finally quit teaching ESL, but after ten years in Tinsel Town, things are looking grim. That is, until she sets her sights on sexy new neighbor, Matiu Wulf, a New Zealander of Maori origin who is only in Los Angeles to get some scene design experience to beef up his resume, and then he’s headed back home to Auckland. He manages to thwart Trina’s advances, but when she falls under the spell of toothy-grinned thespian, he’s desperate to win back her heart. But when Hollywood gets in the way, these two soon discover that life in Tinsel Town isn’t all red carpet, after parties and celebrity gossip. In fact, Hollywood can be a downright bitch
Author Profile: Lucie Simone
Author Name: Lucie Simone
Website: http://www.luciesimone.com/index.html
Bio: Lucie is a girl’s girl. Her novels reflect her love of living in LA, sipping fruity drinks, rubbing elbows with almost-celebrities, and trying to find love. She has also had the luck to travel, seeing the United States from coast to coast and even vacationing around the globe. Lucie lives in Hollywood, and enjoys spending her time in coffee shops and bookstores, often reading a romance novel or working on writing one of her own. She has a degree in journalism and television production, and has worked in both the entertainment and advertising industries. Her blog describes her as an author, a girly girl, a feminist, a yogi, a vegetarian, an animal lover, a bookworm, a film fan, and so much more.
Titles: The Waterdance, A Taste of Italy, and Hollywood Ending.
See my review of A Hollywood Ending
Bio Retrieved from luciesimone.com
In My Mailbox: Week of October 24
In My Mailbox: Week of October 24th
Title: Until the End of Forever
Author: Shannon Hart
Received: From Shannon Hart
Synopsis: When Sarah Matthews keeps having recurring nightmares she begins to psycho-analyse herself in an attempt to find the reason behind them. After all, she has a perfect marriage; two beautiful children; a part-share in a little business; and everything in the world she could possibly wish for. She is totally content…or is she? Could her life be just a little too perfect? Over a friendly luncheon, Sarah suddenly has stirrings of envy for the total freedom she can no longer enjoy; and when the opportunity is offered her to go to Paris for a month to work with a photographer on the production of a series of Coffee Table books, she decides to go off and find herself. However, in the wake of tragedy she is called back home again, only to find upon her return that the relationship between her and her husband rapidly begins to deteriorate. Very much aimed at the feminine reader, this is a lovely story, and one to which very few will be unable to relate.
Title: Fourteen Days Later
Author: Sibel Hodge
Received: From Sibel Hodge
Synopsis: When Helen Grey is set a fourteen day life-changing challenge the last thing she expects is to be pushed closer to her best friend’s brother, Kalem. But how can he fall for her when he’s too busy falling prey to her mishaps and too in love with his own perfect girlfriend? How will Kalem’s Turkish Cypriot family react when they find out? Is it really possible to change your life in fourteen days?
Title: Hollywood Ending
Author: Lucie Simone
Received: From Lucie Simone
Synopsis: Trina Stewart needs cash. Fast. She’s barely got enough dough to keep her fanny off the streets, let alone any spending money for hot nights clubbing on Sunset Strip. And her job teaching English as a Second Language is seriously lacking in both pay and glamour. But not just any job will do. She’s after a real Hollywood job. The kind that makes her $100,000 in film school debt and ten years in Tinsel Town not seem like such a big fat waste of time and money. But a girl can’t fritter away all her time fretting over her next paycheck, can she? Certainly not when a man like Matiu Wulf, a sexy Maori from New Zealand, parks his oh-so-fine self in the apartment above hers while he takes his best shot at Showbiz.
If only Matiu didn’t seem so… repelled by Trina. Really, though, it’s Los Angeles that Matiu finds so revolting. He’s only in L.A. to get some scene design experience to beef up his resume, and then he’s headed back to New Zealand to follow his dreams in peace, thank you very much. That’s his plan, anyway, until he falls hard for Trina…and Trina falls under the spell of a toothy-grinned wannabe actor who charms the pants right off her.
With Matiu on a mission to win Trina’s heart, and Trina on a mission to nail down that ever elusive Hollywood job, these two soon discover that when love gets tossed in the mix, life in Tinsel Town isn’t all red carpets, after parties, and celebrity gossip. In fact, Hollywood can be a downright bitch!
