Category: Mainstream Publisher: Independently published
ISBN-10: 1790874173
Type: Fiction
Pages: 284
Copyright: December 6, 2018
ISBN-13: 9781790874170
Price: $2.99 (eBook)
Imogene, a country-bred girl, longs to make a life for herself in New York City. She joins forces with her former college roommate to start a movie production company in the big city.
Imogene, a country girl by birth, has always longed for the bright lights of New York City. After graduating from a small-town college, she moves to the big city with her husband Steve and supports him through law school by working low-level publishing jobs. An aspiring writer herself, Imogene struggles with both marriage and career. Then her former college roommate, Sara, arrives in town with plans to establish a film production company. Sara takes over an outfit previously run by her brother, a semi-retired rock star, and Imogene jumps at the chance to join this exciting new venture. She becomes Sara’s confidante and assistant in an ambitious movie project about a youth revolution that threatens to engulf the nation’s capital. As the cast expands and the script evolves, the story line flirts dangerously with reality. The filmmakers can’t predict whether the project will make their fortunes or shatter their lives.
Excerpt
Imogene settled in at Peace Enterprises, yet continued to ride a roller-coaster, both personally and professionally. She put up with Steve’s mostly uncommunicative behavior because she dreaded being single again. In the office, saddled with mundane tasks at first, she nevertheless managed to soak in enough of the vibrant atmosphere to spark her own creativity. Minimized by the two co-workers who should have been helping her, she compensated by maintaining her friendship with Sara and cherishing occasional compliments from Leroy.
All in all, she held her own in the big city … until an upheaval in the Guthries’ lives, a long-awaited breakthrough, changed everything.
Your trailer and excerpt are both descriptive of the storyline, but both convey no dialogue of the kinds of problems Imogene faces. What are her two coworkers say/doing to undermine her?
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