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Navigating the Internet is like swimming in a tide of many voices.

January 11, 2018 by Vickie Lester

I maintain that navigating the Internet is like swimming in a tide of many voices. Sometimes you paddle away, and sometimes you find a voice that is buoyant, and with it you want to rise and let it resonate. Today I am recommending you turn your attention to one of those voices. Listen: “I get that your heart is giving way, sweetheart (She often called me Sweetheart, along with calling me her Miracle), and I see you not waving, but […]

Categories: Art, Blogging, Books, Cooking, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Film, Friendship, Gastronomy, History, Hollywood, Life, Literature, Los Angeles, Memoir, Movies, New York, Photography, Story, Theater, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: blogging, book reviews, Charlie Smith, here we are going, Memoir, Norma Shearer, recipes, Swimming

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“She made him a proposition; an entrée into the film industry in exchange for a suitable period of physical, if not matrimonial devotion.” It’s in His Kiss by Vickie Lester

July 2, 2014 by Vickie Lester

It’s in His Kiss: Kindle It’s in His Kiss: paperback

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“What goes on in other people’s bedrooms is none of my business.” It’s in His Kiss by Vickie Lester

June 28, 2014 by Vickie Lester

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“She was talking about stars using drugs at a bondage bar and unearthing a cadaver and making it sound as sunny as a picnic on the beach.” It’s in His Kiss by Vickie Lester

June 28, 2014 by Vickie Lester

Categories: Advertising, Blogging, Books, Culture, Design, Entertainment, Fiction, Film, History, Hollywood, Life, Literature, Los Angeles, Movies, Mystery, Palm Springs, Romance, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: an interview with Vickie Lester, Bette Davis, blogging, bondage bar, cadaver, California, characterization, chicken-hawking leading men, dialogue, distinctive patois, don't bore people, drugs, ebook, everyone has a secret, flying, Hollywood, Hollywood behind the scenes, illicit thrill, inspired by real people and situations, It's in His Kiss a novel by Vickie Lester, lavender marriages, multiple facelifts, New York, paperback, Rocky Mountains, serotonin jolt, writing sex

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Joan Collins, in the words of Mr. Lester, “Zowie!”

May 27, 2014 by Vickie Lester

“Have you met my significant other?” Anne shook her head, expecting him to introduce a strapping young man, possibly, most likely, in the acting profession. Instead he blew a kiss to a taught, angular woman in her late sixties / early seventies wrapped in an Indonesian sarong. She smiled serenely. She was stunning. Anne tried to place the face, and then she realized she was looking at a bombshell from the fifties—Toni Todd. Oh my god. She’s my father’s age—eighty, […]

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Write what you know…and then grit your teeth and publish. With an older and wiser Vickie Lester and a young Joan Crawford

May 10, 2014 by Vickie Lester

Write what you know??? If that were true all you’d be hearing from me is, “Blah-blah-blah, perimenopause, blah-blah-blah, who didn’t close the refrigerator?, blah-blah-blah, that director is an ASSHOLE, blah-blah-blah, does anyone see my glasses anywhere… Furthermore poppets, I get queasy handing out advice, but the thing about writing, more than anything, is sitting down and doing it. Of course journalists should adhere to who, what, where, when, and why… But, for those of you who are starting to write […]

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And waiting, this time with champagne…and Ann-Margret

January 28, 2014 by Vickie Lester

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Waiting…with Marlene Dietrich in black lace…on bed

January 28, 2014 by Vickie Lester

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While I’m waiting for the publishers, I’ll just gab…

January 28, 2014 by Vickie Lester

You know, this thing struck me about blogging recently… It’s made me have more faith in people, not less. I’ve always been the kind of person who tends toward suspicion, even as a child. I remember going to work with my father one day, I think I was about twelve, another executive had brought his little boy, he was about half my size. It was a more trusting time, but I wasn’t a trusting child. I remember walking around the […]

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