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I Saw Them Ride Away    by Harry Arthur Gant
Price: $2.99 USD. 133210 words. Published by Castle Knob Publishing  on March 31, 2010. .

Harry Arthur Gant lived at the intersection of the Old West and the New West. He was a cowboy in Colorado during the 1890s and a silent-film cameraman in Hollywood. He tells his story with a distinctive mix of Old West plain speaking and New West sophistication, with the rough edges left on. This memoir spans two of the most fascinating parts of America's past.
It's Time for Your Close-up    by Renee Kohl
Price: $7.99 USD. 42290 words. Published on May 6, 2010. .

This Coming-of-Age fiction novel follows the life of a 9-year-old, street-wise orphan girl from Spanish Harlem. When her parents die,she goes to live with her staunch Christian grandmother in Los Angeles. In L.A. she forms a close relationship with an older boy, an aspiring actor, who becomes a guiding force in her life. Their close relationship gives rise to one of Hollywood’s biggest scandals.
Reinventing Cinema: The First Decade of Digital Cinema    by Nick Dager
Price: $1.99 USD. 73650 words. Published on June 3, 2010. .

In May 1999 Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace opened with digital screenings in a handful of movie theatres in and around New York and Los Angeles: digital cinema’s first decade was underway. An eyewitness to all the challenges and changes taking place, Nick Dager, founder of the website Digital Cinema Report, chronicles the people who are using new technology to reinvent cinema.
Deadline Zombies: The Adventures of Maxi and Moxie    by Teel James Glenn
Price: $3.99 USD. 75990 words. Published by Rob Preece on July 3, 2010. .

Chasing a headline is just a job for ace reporter Moxie Donnovan, but sometimes those headlines turn on him and bite. Moxie, along with his sexy better half, Maxi (a theater and film actor) face a tiger-sized panther, mechanical gunmen who support the master race, Irish Fae and Hollywood's worst. Author Teel James Glenn recreates the pulp fiction of the 1930s in an exciting and fun adventure.
Blood is Pretty    by Steven Paul Leiva
Price: $2.99 USD. 94020 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on July 8, 2010. .

“Steve Leiva not only promises but delivers. This is a fine first novel. Bravo!” — Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles... “Blood is Pretty is a wonderful read, a highly entertaining and impressive debut novel." — Richard D. Zanuck, Academy Award-winning Producer of Jaws, Cocoon, Driving Miss Daisy, and Tim Burton’s Alice in wonderland
Paperback Writer    by Richard Taylor
Price: $0.99 USD. 20470 words. Published on July 16, 2010. .

A wild comedy in the spirit of the classic films of Danny Kaye (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Wonder Man) and Bob Hope (My Favorite Brunette, The Ghost Breakers), Paperback Writer is the story of a pulp fiction writer whose characters are just a little too real to him, particularly Nikki Sapphire, the Distaff Dick, a '40s-era hard boiled detective whose gender was changed by his publisher.
Romancing the Ruins, a Film Treatment    by Jon and Lois Foyt
Price: Free! 9620 words. Published on July 18, 2010. .

Get Ready for a dramatic visual. Get Set for the authors’ film treatment based on their novel, The Architecture of Time. Go for this rollercoaster read.
Back(stabbed) In Brooklyn    by Lenox Parker
Price: Free! 60410 words. Published on August 4, 2010. .

This Hollywood star is washed up after a series of sordid, drunken mistakes, and returns to his Brooklyn roots after decades of success. What he finds is not the nostalgia he expected, but a group of hardened guys with grudges to match. The gang all finally meet up at a dive in Chinatown, but instead of a warm reunion the deep resentments of the past turn into exploitation and deceit.
The Mob Files. The Mob in Hollywood    by John Tuohy
Price: $6.00 USD. 27630 words. Published on August 5, 2010. .

Gangsters in roles and in real life in Hollywood
Kill Me Again    by Terence Faherty
Price: $3.99 USD. 97350 words. Published by The Mystery Company  on August 10, 2010. .

How do you top your best work? In Hollywood, you make a sequel. That's the plan in 1947 when filming begins on a follow-up to the wartime romance Passage to Lisbon. The screenwriter is accused of being a Communist. Enter Scott Elliott, a former actor and soldier who is struggling to find a place in a changing Hollywood. To save the movie, Elliott must untangle a tale of murder, sin and redemption.