Category: Palm Springs

February 28, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Have you heard what that Vickie Lester is up to? Why, it’s perfectly scandalous!

February 23, 2014 / Vickie Lester

This is the one who slapped a cop…

When I was a kid the Gabors roamed Palm Springs. Zsa Zsa, pictured here, Eva, of television fame, Magda, who married well and often. Their mama, Jolie was a jewelry designer (I think) and I know she had store on Palm Canyon in Palm Springs. Well babies, I am not…

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February 22, 2014 / Vickie Lester

In which we sing the praises of: Julius Shulman, © Pleasurephoto, and Palm Springs mid-century

If you drop in this morning, stateside, in the early evening in Europe, in the wee small hours of the morning in Australia and New Zealand… you get my drift… the point is I will start reading you a saucy story all about Hollywood, but it starts in Palm Springs.…

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February 21, 2014 / Vickie Lester

I’ve got something on my mind… it might have a bit to do with stagefright

I am doing something I’ve never done before, and I’m going to read, out loud, a little bit of my novel, “It’s in His Kiss”, and post it on the site tomorrow. It is saucy, mildly funny, it is about Hollywood, and it is kinda a romance-mystery behind the scenes…

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February 21, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Divine Desolation – A Little Historic Palm Springs Architecture | Paradise Leased

This site is architectural eye-candy. And, I love that Steve Vaught explores a side of Palm Springs somewhat forgotten in our appreciation of mid-century design. Divine Desolation – A Little Historic Palm Springs Architecture | Paradise Leased.

February 17, 2014 / Vickie Lester

How am I? Inquire at your peril.

Now listen, I don’t know if it’s hormones, or the bulletin board covered with post-its I just constructed this weekend charting out my time between now and the release date of the book, June 1st, but DAMN poppets! There’s a lot to be done. I’m beginning to see why some…

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February 6, 2014 / Vickie Lester

I have been visited by a celestial creature, and we have something to show you! A book teaser…

*** Please click on the lovely red letters… which will whisk you to exciting places: Book 1 | BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD. All things glorious, thanks to: how to stay sane in a crazy world | by sophia stuart.

February 4, 2014 / Vickie Lester

From publishing deal to self publishing in the blink of an eye. Poppets, things happen. Or Vickie Lester goes belly up, but not for long.

No matter how you design it, or chart it out, things change. This Friday, past the end of business hours I heard some astonishing news. My joint-publishing partners were no longer a publishing entity. Partnerships dissolve, other opportunities arise… People move on. And while it’s felt these past few months…

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January 27, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Ever wonder what it feels like waiting to hear from your publishers?

Kinda like this… Like Hitchcock is looming over your shoulder. Let me walk you through it. They gave you your break. They alternately praised you and harangued you. Some of it was downright dismal. Some of it inspired you to do the best work you’ve ever done. You realize that…

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July 17, 2013 / Vickie Lester