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“I know for some women, men are a household necessity; myself, I’d rather have a canary.” Ruth Chatterton

April 10, 2016 by Vickie Lester

Ruth Chatterton, at the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Ennis House during the shooting of “Female.” When she retired from the screen she started writing. I found this copy of her book, “Homeward Borne” along with several others I had salvaged from the parental attic. Unlike the rest of the old novels — that I had carefully dusted and read (and known had been turned into movies) — this one went unnoticed until I spotted her inscription while organizing before the […]

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“I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.” Norma Desmond, played by the one and only Gloria Swanson

February 23, 2016 by Vickie Lester

Now don’t argue, if you’re looking at this on a phone, tablet, or computer; the point about teeny-tiny images is made. Here we have a GIF from Sunset Blvd., and another excuse to jump from a film image to a discourse on—me! Let’s start with a little background on how I came to write my first novel, I used to write screenplays. Horrid, arty, little things, that were praised for their characterization and literary tone, and were optioned again and […]

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“Let’s do lunch? Over my dead body.” #itsinhiskissbyvickielester

February 20, 2016 by Vickie Lester

Get the skinny on a Hollywood origin story… When Becky invited Steve to accompany her on the adventure, she put it like this, “Steve, I got a gig at a big firm out in California; you wanna come?” Steve, employed at the time drafting prefab cubicle-based office interior schemes in Pittsburgh, had responded with an explosively enthusiastic, “God, yes!” Not only was this a dream fulfilled. but also he was more than a little relieved to get out of town. […]

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“A sex club?” #itsinhiskissbyvickielester

February 11, 2016 by Vickie Lester

Dive into a romantic Hollywood mystery for Valentine’s: “Did they know about The Buccaneers?” “It’s a sex club, Ms. Brown.” “You said it was an after-hours club.” “Good, you’re paying attention.” He made a pyramid of his hands, tapped his fingertips against his lips, thought for a moment, then pushed his chair back from the desk, stood, and extended his hand toward Anne. “Thanks for coming in, Ms. Brown. And the book tip, I’ll try to get my hands on […]

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#AskAnEditor

February 8, 2016 by Vickie Lester

A little pedantic information, “disinterested” is not the word you sought. It is “uninterested.” The two words don’t have the same meaning; “uninterested means you have no interest in something or you have lost interest in it. “Disinterested,” on the other hand, means that you have no vested interest in something, as in a “disinterested” observer. It means “unbiased” or “unprejudiced.”

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“He gave up dealing (well, mostly), lied about his age, and got a job slinging drinks topless (okay, let’s not forget the bowtie) at Studio 54.” #itsinhiskissbyvickielester

February 4, 2016 by Vickie Lester

Feel like dancing? James Johnson loved Manhattan. He loved Juilliard. Most of all he loved shedding all the tiresome, uncool parental pressure, but not his monthly allowance, which he supplemented with a hefty income dealing pot and coke to his like-minded artistic classmates. His best customers tended to be kids enrolled in the music division, pianists particularly, their intensive practice sessions fueled by cocaine. When one of his regulars had a stroke while thundering through a particularly and peculiarly physical […]

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““What’s not hot after a fifth of Jagermeister and six lap dances?” #itsinhiskissbyvickielester

January 31, 2016 by Vickie Lester

I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU an excerpt from “It’s in His Kiss” by Vickie Lester Dawn White turned seventeen in August of 1966. It was a propitious year. Instead of driving her VW Bug from Kitchener, Ontario, Canada to Montreal and matriculating at McGill University, as she ought, she continued to drive until she crossed the border at Michigan, and she kept on driving straight SW until she reached Los Angeles. She wanted to sing. She had aptitude. […]

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“Lipstick as panacea…” It always works in the movies. #itsinhiskissbyvickielester

January 29, 2016 by Vickie Lester

“Just take a breath,” said Shamari, dipping a hand into her Prada bag, her entire arm like a dowser’s wand dragged toward a source of water. There appeared an expression of almost religious fervor as she found what she sought in its capacious depths. After a moment she withdrew her hand and produced, with a flourish, a shining tube of lipstick and proffered it; “This should look good on you. Here.” Anne, more than a little perplexed, accepted the peculiar […]

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“This book has reignited my passion for 21st century fiction.” Scott Parker-Anderson

January 23, 2016 by Vickie Lester

Okay, my angels. It doesn’t get any better than this, this is the heart and soul of the Internet, the thing that keeps us online; connection. When we post or tweet or Instagram — or write a novel — we are starting a conversation and hoping that somebody will reply. Today the conversation takes us to Seattle, where a inspiring young man sheds light on the arts, and the people who create it. Dig through the Waldina archive and you […]

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