Friday, January 1, 2021

7th Day of Christmas Author Spotlight: Anna Martin


Anna Martin
Anna Martin is from a picturesque seaside village in the southwest of England and now lives in the Bristol, a city that embraces her love for the arts. After spending most of her childhood making up stories, she studied English literature at university before attempting to turn her hand as a professional writer.

Apart from being physically dependent on her laptop, Anna is enthusiastic about writing and producing local grassroots theater (especially at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where she can be found every summer), going to visit friends in other countries, and reading anything thatís put under her nose.

Anna claims her entire career is due to the love, support, prereading, and creative ass kicking provided by her best friend Jennifer. Jennifer refuses to accept responsibility for anything Anna has written.



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Let it Snow
Summary:

It’s the day before the last day of term and Year One teacher Harry Britton has a problem: all of the costumes for his nativity play have been destroyed by accident. The only person who can possibly help him is Edward Saunders, who runs a small tailor and alterations shop in the village.

Edward is more than a little shocked to be asked to make seventeen costumes for five year old children—he’s more comfortable making bespoke men’s suits. But there’s something beguiling and utterly charming about Harry Britton, so despite all his hesitations, he agrees to help.



Five Times My Best Friend Kissed Me: and One Time I Kissed Him First
Summary:
When you realize you want to marry your best friend at age six, life should follow a pretty predictable path, right? Maybe not.

As a kid, Evan King thought Scott Sparrow was the most amazing person he’d ever met. At seventeen, his crush runs a little deeper, and nothing seems simple anymore. Scott is more interested in football and girls than playing superheroes, and Evan’s attention is focused on getting into art school. A late-night drunken kiss is something to be forgotten, not obsessed over for the next ten years.

When life suddenly brings them back together, it doesn’t take much for the flame Evan carried for Scott nearly all his life to come roaring back, and Evan discovers that life sometimes has a strange way of coming full circle.

** This is a re-release of the 2016 novel "Five Times My Best Friend Kissed Me".


The Impossible Boy
Summary:
The Impossible Boy #1
This is not your average love story.

Ben Easton is not your average romantic hero. He’s a tattooed, badass, guitarist in a band, working in a perfectly horrible dive bar in Camden Town. His life is good, and he’s totally unprepared for how one man will turn it upside down.

Stan isn’t your average heroine. As a gender-fluid man, he proudly wears his blond hair long, his heels sky-high, and his makeup perfectly executed. A fashion industry prodigy, Stan is in London after stints working in Italy and New York City, and he quickly falls for Ben’s devil-may-care attitude and the warm, soft heart Ben hides behind it.

Beneath the perfect, elegant exterior, Stan has plenty of scars from teenage battles with anorexia. And it only takes the slightest slip for his demons to rush back in while Ben is away touring with his band, Ares. With Ares on the brink of a breakthrough, Ben is forced to find a way to balance the opportunity of a lifetime with caring for his beautiful, impossible boyfriend.


Lone Wolf
Summary:
Jackson Gallagher isn’t a typical werewolf. He isolates himself in a small town outside Spokane and dedicates himself to making his business—Lone Wolf Brewery—a success. If it leaves him little time for romance, he’s okay with that. His soul mate could be out there somewhere, but he isn’t actively looking.

So he’s in for quite the shock when he literally bumps into his soul mate—an adorable, nerdy, vibrant music therapist who’s Jackson’s polar opposite.

But he’s human. And a man.

Jackson’s straight—or at least he’s always assumed so. Though he can’t deny his attraction to Leo, it’s a lot for both of them to deal with.

While Jackson and Leo figure out what their future might hold, they face prejudice from both the human and werewolf communities—including a group of fanatics willing to kill to show humans and werewolves don’t belong together.

** This is a re-release of the 2019 novel 'Lone Wolf'


Something Wild
Summary:
The South Pacific Archipelago is home to a tiny island community of around three hundred scientists… and twenty thousand dinosaurs. As a paleogeneticist, Kit Sterling leads a team studying the dinosaurs to unlock the unanswered questions of evolution.

But there is something more dangerous than dinosaurs on the islands.

Head ranger Logan Beck discovers evidence of poachers, while rumors of a black market for dinosaur leather swirl around the community. Kit and Logan haven’t always gotten along professionally, though that has nothing to do with their attraction to each other. So when they’re thrown together to save an injured infant dinosaur, their professional disdain turns into a clandestine romance.

With not just the injured dinosaur at risk, but all of the precious dinosaurs on the islands too, Kit and Logan have to figure out how to balance their budding romance without letting their careers go extinct.

** This is a re-release of the 2019 novel 'Something Wild' 



Let it Sew

Five Times My Best Friend Kissed Me: and One Time I Kissed Him First

The Impossible Boy

Lone Wolf

Something Wild

📘🎥Friday's Film Adaptation🎥📘: Susan Slept Here by Steve Fisher & Alex Gottlieb


Summary:
Genre: Comedy
Characters: 4 males, 4 females
Scenery: Interior

A Hollywood writer in need of some research material finds Susan, a 17 year old delinquent, on his doorstep on a rainy Christmas Eve. He learns her life, decides he won't let her be sent to the prison farm, and therefore contrives to have her marry him in Las Vegas. Before she awakens after their all night ride back, Joe leaves for his mountain cabin to write a play about Susan. In his absence, Joe's old Navy pal talks Susan into studying acting. Finally Joe's play opens with Susan in the cast, and she immediately becomes the talk of Broadway. However, she walks out on the play to go back to Joe, who has since realized how much he really loved her. She has little trouble convincing him that age differences mean nothing when two people love each other.


A Hollywood screenwriter takes in a runaway girl who's more woman than he can handle.

Release Date: July 14, 1954
Release Time: 98 minutes

Cast:
Dick Powell as Mark Christopher
Debbie Reynolds as Susan Beauregard Landis
Anne Francis as Isabella Alexander
Alvy Moore as Virgil
Glenda Farrell as Maude Snodgrass
Horace McMahon as Sergeant Monty Maizel
Herb Vigran as Sergeant Sam Hanlon
Les Tremayne as Harvey Butterworth
Mara Lane as Marilyn
Maidie Norman as Georgette
Rita Johnson as Dr. Rawley
Ellen Corby as Coffee Shop Waitress
Benny Rubin as Sylvester the janitor
Barbara Darrow as Miss Jennings
Sue Carlton as Coffee Shop Cashier

Awards:
1954 Academy Awards
Best Song - Jack Lawrence, Richard Myers - Nominated
Best Sound - John O. Aalberg - Nominated



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Steve Fisher
Stephen Gould Fisher was an American author best known for his pulp stories, novels and screenplays. He is one of the few pulp authors to go on to enjoy success as both an author in “slick” magazines, such as the Saturday Evening Post, and as an in-demand writer in Hollywood.

Alex Gottlieb
Educated at the University of Wisconsin, Gottlieb worked in theater publicity and advertising before entering radio writing. Later he ventured into screenplays and film production. Among his credits were "I'll Take Sweden," "Frankie and Johnny," "Buck Privates" (in 1941 the first Bud Abbott and Lou Costello picture) and "Hollywood Canteen." On Broadway he produced "Separate Rooms," "Susan Slept Here," "Two for the Money" and "One Big Happy Family," while his TV work involved "The Gale Storm Show," "Bob Hope Chrysler Theatre," "Donna Reed Show" and "The Smothers Brothers Show."


Steve Fisher
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Alex Gottlieb
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