Tag: #BehindTheScenes

November 21, 2020 / Vickie Lester

Episode 21. Hollywood is like a one-night stand, unless one is careful.

Merle Oberon said that thing about Hollywood and one night stands. We’ll talk about her joy ride with David Niven later. Now we’re back to the story of Billie and chapter 19 — A film set is a constantly shifting sea. It’s usually crowded concentrated controlled chaos — until it’s…

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December 1, 2015 / Vickie Lester

A Hard Day’s Night – an excerpt from It’s in His Kiss by Vickie Lester

A HARD DAY’S NIGHT Imagine a time before you were born. Imagine a dowdy old university town on the East Coast somewhere in the nineteen-sixties. Imagine a boy and a girl living there. These two, let’s call them Becky and Steve, spoon-fed each other fantasy. Their days…

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June 9, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Ms. Lester Regrets (Nothing)! For It’s A Book Club World, After All!

There’s a lot of talk these days about the seismic changes in the publishing business. What’s discussed less are the changes to the social aspect of reading and the increasingly social ways people interact over books. And this social component is even driving the way books are marketed, both by…

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