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Silent Scream: a Groovy Mystery Caper    by James Huskins
Price: $2.99 USD. 67240 words. Published on December 8, 2010. .

Old secrets, a Hollywood legend and murder.... It's 1960. Nora Bates, a silent-film star known as "Lil' Screamer", is publishing her memoirs loaded with old Hollywood's dirty little secrets, unless someone freeze-frames her in a final silent scream.
Sloane Hall    by Libby Sternberg
Price: $4.99 USD. 119310 words. Published by Istoria Books  on December 17, 2010. .

It is the 1920s in Old Hollywood. Talking pictures are the new thing. John Doyle learns the craft of cinematography when a stupid mistake costs him his job. On a tip, he gets hired as chauffeur for a famous silent screen actress, Pauline Sloane. Despite his best efforts to resist, John falls hopelessly in love with his employer. But something is in the attic… Subtly tips the hat to Jane Eyre.
Stand Alone: The Films of Mickey Rourke    by Saurav Dutt
Price: $10.00 USD. 84180 words. Published on December 28, 2010. .

Combining reviews and analytical discussion of all his films (including rare short movies and unreleased TV pilots), the book takes a critical and detailed look at his career, acting performances and lifeworks. Included are interviews with cast and crew from some of his lesser known features and rare interviews from the man himself.
South of Sunset    by Lisa Maliga
Price: $2.99 USD. 36080 words. Published on January 3, 2011. .

Hollywood. It conjures up images of movies, sunglass-wearing stars, palm trees, plastic surgery, drug habits, the proverbial overnight success…and the happy ending. In this collection of original short fiction, get into the minds of an assortment of losers, dreamers, successes, wannabes, and has-beens. "South of Sunset" isn't just a location, but where myth and reality merge.
Coast to Coast (Charlotte Diamond Mysteries 3)    by Olivia Stowe
Price: $0.99 USD. 33270 words. Published by Cyberworld Publishing  on January 7, 2011. .

Retired FBI senior investigator Charlotte Diamond finds herself jetting from murder on one coast of the United States to kidnapping on another in attempts to save both her lover and her former husband. Charlotte follows her new-found companion, the leading movie actress, Brenda Brandon, to Hollywood. The third Charlotte Diamond Mystery.
HiStory of Santa Monica    by Cynthia Reeser
Price: $9.99 USD. 52370 words. Published on January 12, 2011. .

A seemingly peaceful seaside city, Santa Monica is also a purgatory where the characters must face failure and loss—as well as their demons and ghosts. Family and ritual are consistent motifs throughout the collection, as are the themes of escape, addiction, redemption, reparation, religion, and death.
Escape From Hades    by Aaron Pery
Price: $3.99 USD. 64230 words. Published on January 17, 2011. .

In a time when Biblical ethics are enforced by the devil, William and Janet die when his jealous wife finds them in bed and kills them. To their surprise, they pay for their infidelity harshly by being sent to Hades for all eternity. Unable to accept their harsh sentences, they finally escape when they find a chink in Hades security. They return back to Los Angeles to start a new life again.
Hollywood is an All-Volunteer Army    by Steven Paul Leiva
Price: $3.99 USD. 113770 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on January 20, 2011. .

Here's a story that moves from Hollywood to Manhattan to London to the Greek Island of Corfu to a castle by the sea steeped in Hollywood history and, finally, to the skies over California where World War II Spitfires and Messerschmitts dogfight to the death, and wherein the Fixxer, and his band of cohorts and confidants do battle against the amorality of the universe.
The Lyndon Technique: The 15 Guideline Map to Booking    by Amy Lyndon
Price: $4.99 USD. 11840 words. Published on January 20, 2011. .

The Lyndon Technique provides a practical approach to Auditioning and Booking the job on the first take. Each chapter provides detailed insight into each guideline of Amy Lyndon's “15 Guideline Map to Booking.” You've got the talent, you've got the training, now get the book that will help you get paid for it all! If you want to learn how to work as an actor, then this is the Handbook for you!
Peeko Pacifiko    by Ken O'Steen
Price: $0.99 USD. 105810 words. Published on January 20, 2011. .

This work is best described as the quintessential Twentieth Century fin de siècle novel of Los Angeles and perhaps the only one. Its narrator and gallery of characters are too willing pawns in the battle of high and low, individuality and expectations, art and commerce, survival and resignation and the liberation of hedonism versus its perils to the soul.