Hollywood

AuthorBuzz: Forbidden Romance on a Mediterranean Cruise

The Close Up: A Hollywood Renaissance Novella by Kennedy Ryan (1001 Dark Nights Press) Dear Reader, The glamor of Hollywood meets the exhilaration of the NBA in this forbidden love, second chance romance. It’s all shaken and stirred into a cool, refreshing drink on a blisteringly hot day. Takira, make-up artist to…

AuthorBuzzDecember 12, 2022

Romance

Tall Poppies Review: “Entanglement” Is a Story of Friendship, Loyalty and Struggles

Entanglement by Katie Rose Guest Pryal is an evocative story of enduring friendship and the ties that bind. Charismatic Daphne, and her more reserved best friend Greta, both have troubled pasts so they are anxious to start an exciting new chapter in Los Angeles near the glitz and glamour of…

Diane HaegerNovember 2, 2017

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured Romance

Actress’ Hysterical Memoir Details Late-in-Life Love Story With “Grace and Frankie” Producer

If you love romantic comedy, you are sure to enjoy author Nancy Balbirer’s witty sense of humor and her candid observations as she peels back the layers of her true-to-life love story in her new memoir, Almost Romance (Little A)! Falling in love is not always easy; it can take…

Jennifer BlankfeinFebruary 1, 2022

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Discover How One Woman Transformed Costume Design in the Golden Age of Hollywood

This is the story of how Marianne Dunat left her small village in the south of France, arrived in Hollywood in 1919 thinking she would stay for a year, and wound up carving out a magnificent career as a fashion designer at a time when costume design started taking off…

BookTribNovember 19, 2021

Nonfiction

“Hollywood’s Trains & Trolleys:” The Forgotten “Stars” Film Buffs Should Know About

But another “star” for many of those films, an essential “role player” without legions of fans cramming for autographs, was a vehicle that got actors to their locations and often served as backdrops or even on-screen “performers” minus a speaking part: the streetcar. The transportation modes so crucial to this…

Jim AlkonJuly 15, 2020

Nonfiction

“Just The Funny Parts:” One Woman’s Mark on TV Comedy

A woman walks into a room. She’s the only female comedy writer there. She leans in, writes a funny book, and has the last laugh. Lots of laughs. Just the Funny Parts (Dey Street Books) is Nell Scovell’s story of how she went from wise-cracking kid to writing for David Letterman to…

Joanna PoncavageAugust 16, 2018

Nonfiction

Rose McGowan to Release ‘Brave’ New Book on Harvey Weinstein and Sexual Harassment in Hollywood

Rose McGowan has been very vocal in addressing sexual harassment in Hollywood, and specifically, against Harvey Weinstein, whom she says assaulted her in a hotel room in 1997. The two reached a settlement of $100,000, but that hasn't stopped McGowan for speaking out in support of Weinstein's other accusers. Since the…

Rachel Fogle De SouzaNovember 13, 2017

Nonfiction

Hollywood Hypocrites: Industry Vet Herb Freed on Harvey Weinstein and Hollywood’s Casting Couch Era

I came to Los Angeles from New York to direct movies in 1972. I had entered the film business seven years earlier, after resigning my post as rabbi of Temple Beth Shalom in Lake Mahopac, N.Y. I began to study film at New York University privately and my first assignments were…

Herb FreedOctober 16, 2017

Fiction Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

Baldacci’s PI Archer Follows Danger to Hollywood in “Dream Town”

In David Baldacci’s third Archer adventure, Dream Town (Grand Central), the Pacific Coast Highway leads PI Aloysius Archer and his spiffy 1939 blood-red Delahaye convertible from Bay Town, CA, to Hollywood. As if transported by a time machine, Baldacci immerses readers into the 1950s, an era of flashy films and…

Jodé MillmanApril 20, 2022

Fiction Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

Join the Pursuit of a Globe-Hopping Serial Killer in David Temple’s “The Impostor”

In author David Temple’s newest police procedural, The Impostor (82 Mercer Publishing), book two in his series featuring Hollywood Detective Pat Norelli, the search for a serial killer becomes a global hunt for a man Norelli no longer recognizes but vows to take down. Dubbed “The Poser” because he poses…

K.L. RomoJuly 1, 2021

Book Club Network Fiction

“The Only Woman in the Room:” Enter the Wild World of Actress Hedy Lamarr

An actress, inventor, and keeper of secrets, the beautiful Hedy Lamarr was among many Jews who fled Europe during the 1930s and came to Hollywood to start a new life. Born in Vienna in 1914, she studied acting with the innovative theater director, Max Reinhardt. But she made the mistake…

Claudia KeenanOctober 24, 2018

Better Self Nonfiction

“He Put My Buddha in the Freezer” Is a Memoir for Dreamers Chasing That Hollywood Fantasy

The dreamer in all of us has probably at least once fantasized about making it in Hollywood: chummy lunches with celebrities, the red carpet, movie premiers, galas, paparazzi. He Put My Buddha in the Freezer is a book that everyone’s inner dreamer will appreciate — and maybe even learn from.…

Sherri DaleySeptember 30, 2020

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: “Chasing Chaos” Glimpses Hollywood

I approach novels set in the world of the entertainment business with trepidation. My husband is a TV reporter who covers entertainment for a living, so I’m familiar with the beat and therefore quick to spot inaccuracies or false notes in novels with a Hollywood setting, so it was a…

Eileen GoudgeDecember 6, 2018

Fiction

‘Red Sparrow’: Jennifer Lawrence’s New Film is in Theaters and the Final Book in the Trilogy is in Stores

Red Sparrow (Scribner Books), the first book in Jason Matthews' trilogy is a seductive tale of espionage and intrigue just ripe for Hollywood. Sparrow is a dark thriller about a Russian ballerina-turned-spy who infiltrates "Sparrow School," a facility where students are taught to use sex as both a weapon and information-gathering technique.…

Aisha K. StaggersMarch 1, 2018

BooksToScreen Fiction

3 Books That Would Make Great Movies for Hanukkah

One of my favorite parts of the holiday season is watching the multitude of Christmas movies we’ve spent our lives with. I love A Charlie Brown Christmas, I cry like a baby at the end of It’s a Wonderful Life, and each year sparks a new debate over which is…

Michael RuscoeDecember 7, 2015

Fiction

“Listen to the Marriage” Explores a Fractured Love Story

What is your reaction when you hear of a marriage breaking up? Are you shocked or did you know it was coming? In John Jay Osborn Jr.’s new novel, Listen to the Marriage we are introduced to a couple who seemed to be destined for divorce. Steve’s numerous affairs and focus on…

Just The Right Book PodcastDecember 7, 2018

AuthorBuzz: Forbidden Romance on a Mediterranean Cruise

Tall Poppies Review: “Entanglement” Is a Story of Friendship, Loyalty and Struggles

Actress’ Hysterical Memoir Details Late-in-Life Love Story With “Grace and Frankie” Producer

Discover How One Woman Transformed Costume Design in the Golden Age of Hollywood

“Hollywood’s Trains & Trolleys:” The Forgotten “Stars” Film Buffs Should Know About

“Just The Funny Parts:” One Woman’s Mark on TV Comedy

Rose McGowan to Release ‘Brave’ New Book on Harvey Weinstein and Sexual Harassment in Hollywood

Hollywood Hypocrites: Industry Vet Herb Freed on Harvey Weinstein and Hollywood’s Casting Couch Era

Baldacci’s PI Archer Follows Danger to Hollywood in “Dream Town”

Join the Pursuit of a Globe-Hopping Serial Killer in David Temple’s “The Impostor”

“The Only Woman in the Room:” Enter the Wild World of Actress Hedy Lamarr

“He Put My Buddha in the Freezer” Is a Memoir for Dreamers Chasing That Hollywood Fantasy

Tall Poppy Review: “Chasing Chaos” Glimpses Hollywood

‘Red Sparrow’: Jennifer Lawrence’s New Film is in Theaters and the Final Book in the Trilogy is in Stores

3 Books That Would Make Great Movies for Hanukkah

“Listen to the Marriage” Explores a Fractured Love Story

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