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#Amwriting #HollywoodFiction. Hop in, I’ll take you for a short spin…

January 11, 2016 by Vickie Lester

PREFACE I am a woman of a certain age. An age at which I have gained, if not wisdom, then at least the experience and discernment to intuit that when an old friend I haven’t heard a squeak from in three years texts me, “S’up?” late at night that what’s lying heavy on his mind is the proximity of death and the unresolved question of why — exactly — we never tumbled into bed together. And whether there’s any possibility […]

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Vickie Lester is still smitten

November 13, 2015 by Vickie Lester

I caught my first glimmer of love when I was three. It happened in October; brilliant azure skies punctuated by palm trees, bags filled with candy, pumpkins on doorsteps. I was barreling through the house, as fast as my short little legs would carry me, looking for something to eat, when I spied a perfect, glossy, round, smiling, bright orange plastic Jack-o’-lantern. I shoved my hand through it’s twinkling eye socket, grabbed a fist full of sweets, and found I […]

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#Shakespeare: he knew not the #selfie…a scoop worthy of prying myself away from the #Hollywoodnovel I #amwriting

May 19, 2015 by Vickie Lester

A small monochrome engraving of a handsome laurel-wreathed man on the title page of a 16th-century book about plants is the only demonstrably authentic portrait of William Shakespeare made in his lifetime, it has been claimed. The suggestion is, by any measurement, a sensational one. It was made by the botanist and historian Mark Griffiths, who first came up with the theory five years ago and has secretly been trying to disprove it ever since. The scoop belongs to Country […]

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A year ago today I accidentally published my novel…

May 17, 2015 by Vickie Lester

Oh babies you know the story, but for those who don’t, a short recap. Once upon a time Vickie Lester had agents who turned down one publishing deal and proposed another with a small indie firm that sounded just right. So, the wheels were in motion as 2013 turned into 2014 for my first novel to be published. I worked with two wonderful editors — one in London, one in NY — the book cover was designed, we were poised, […]

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Listen, Sugar, another earful from Vickie Lester…and it’s still not autobiographical

May 17, 2015 by Vickie Lester

In case you’ve forgotten the first few pages, click here. You Don’t Own Me By Vickie Lester Late in the summer following her sophomore year, Billie Price was living in the Beverly Hills home of a blonde former figure skater. This photogenic darling of Orange County had risen from championship skating, to spokesperson at Knudsen’s Dairy, to management. She married an actor (of sorts) and from there hopped over to a full-time job at Fox. She had met Mr. Major […]

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Still working on the new novel…here’s another page for you…Happy Valentine’s!

May 17, 2015 by Vickie Lester

You Don’t Own Me By Vickie Lester The first roof over her head that summer was courtesy of a friend of friend who was house-sitting in a red brick colonial on a leafy street in Brookline. The house’s owner, a Political Science professor, little suspected that his home was harboring a swarm of students while he vacationed in Europe. Nor was he aware that the students were using his phone to make any number of free illegal calls using an […]

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As you may have noticed, I am very fond of L.A.

May 17, 2015 by Vickie Lester

When I was coming out of college, I had a choice. An internship at BBDO, an ad agency in NYC, where I would live in a tiny studio apartment the size of a dorm room and look out of my window at a brick wall, or I could come back home to L.A…. Miles of freeway connecting what seems like a thousand neighborhoods from the desert to the ocean… Beautiful weather and winter breezes scented with jasmine… And an entry […]

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The truth about leading men in Hollywood…facts fictionalized by Vickie Lester…still working on the next novel…

April 6, 2015 by Vickie Lester

You Don’t Own Me By Vickie Lester “In a happy world, there would be no art. I retreat too often into my imagination. In a happy world, the experience of reality would be enough.” John Fowles …Billie was hunched on a stool at the breakfast bar playing with the bouncy rubberized cord of the telephone, listening to Polly with the earpiece clutched to her head when the kitchen door swung open and in walked Dave Taylor and Earvin Effay Johnson, […]

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A cozy stay at home Sunday with the Mister and Vickie Lester…

March 22, 2015 by Vickie Lester

I did not make breakfast, but lounged about as magic occurred in the kitchen, of course I had to endure some alt. rock and garage band anthems, but it seemed a small price to pay for delicious coffee, chopped grapefruit, scrambled eggs and onions, toast and marmalade. The apple of my eye is about to go full tilt into film production, which means a stretch of months during which I will finish my second novel, have the upstairs of my […]

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Tag: this is what’s keeping me away from the blog

#Amwriting #HollywoodFiction. Hop in, I’ll take you for a short spin…

Vickie Lester is still smitten

#Shakespeare: he knew not the #selfie…a scoop worthy of prying myself away from the #Hollywoodnovel I #amwriting

A year ago today I accidentally published my novel…

Listen, Sugar, another earful from Vickie Lester…and it’s still not autobiographical

Still working on the new novel…here’s another page for you…Happy Valentine’s!

As you may have noticed, I am very fond of L.A.

The truth about leading men in Hollywood…facts fictionalized by Vickie Lester…still working on the next novel…

A cozy stay at home Sunday with the Mister and Vickie Lester…