Hello wonderful reader and new friend - I wrote TV sit-coms when TV only had 4 channels and people smoked in elevators on shows set in a hospital. Yes I am old but not quite as old as that makes me sound.
I had an excellent adventure writing sit-com in a hey day that included so many amazing shows and I got to play a part as a writer on a couple popular ones, Cheers and Roseanne. I had so many fascinating times in that career and other times it seemed like I had signed myself in to a very swanky private mental asylum.
And then, one day after you worked there for about 20 years, Hollywood checks your underwear and discovers you are still a woman but now you are...old. So I had to try another career and another try at life.
So I give you 2 books. I think they are both perfect for the beach or reading on a long plane ride. And they both are killed with heart and big emotions. Plus you might laugh your butt off while reading them - funny is an instinct that is hard to break. So thank you and look for me and more books that will make you laugh and cry and have all kinds of feels. You deserve it.
Some of this is borderline memoir, but there is only one version of the truth and I can't be bothered to remember it. So I fictionalized it for a better, faster, more exciting read for you.
I sure hope you enjoy it. Look for my next book Challenger, already on sale.
As a once-thriving sitcom writer, I wrote this as my fictionalized story of ups, downs and maybe some gossip. Part memoir of a 30-something woman, Valerie, who wrote for sit-com; part love story of how Valerie and an unexpected man fall in love, almost lose their minds and each other only to fall more deeply in love by book's end; and part travelogue of a long-term trip to Sydney, Australia during the 2000 Olympics, a place where everyone's beautiful but drunk and the landscape is sharper than anyone living there.
Instead of a linear tale of each in sequence, these three threads weave together and dovetail to tell a story where by each chapter's end, a new view of Valerie is revealed. It's a high profile and yet down-to-earth journey of a woman looking to make her life work when nothing around her makes sense at any given time. Particularly her work in sit-com, a place where women are not considered funny, but toilet jokes are.
Bad Reputation also delves into Valerie's complicated and unique family life (a much-married mother and Christian Fundamentalist step father who leaves her notes asking her to dinner and telling her that Satan is her Master).
It's also a story of Valerie's' search for love of her own, made particularly difficult since she makes more money than most men she meets in a world (LA) where only male power is based on money and female power is based on looks.
Finally, it's a first-person narrative of how Valerie gets it all, loses it, and then gets it back for real.
Bad Reputation is for those who love a funny book with emotions and tons of heart, yet also want to know what kind of person Roseanne really is.
Título : Bad Reputation
EAN : 9781476009131
Editorial : Rebecca Parr Cioffi
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