Chris Yarborough is a Midwesterner as green as the corn back home in Ohio. This former bookstore employee moves out to Los Angeles to pursue a profitable career in screenwriting.
She finds an office job in a Century City-based tax and financial planning company. The business closes in six months and her career as a temp is launched.
Chris temps in various locations from East L.A. to downtown to Santa Monica and the Valley. Jobs in movie studios bring her in contact with famous actors. She learns that as a temp, she is the maid of the secretarial world, just another warm body that can be replaced with a phone call.
Searching for a literary agent and that elusive script sale, Chris encounters an array of unusual characters. A partying apartment manager, an important film director who can launch her career, a lawyer with an office furnished in kindergarten motif, and several household names. Sometimes working in the entertainment biz, including stints at Playboy, Universal Studios, and Warner Bros., to jobs in unrelated fields, the plucky screenwriter perseveres.
We’re shown the excesses of the 1990’s as a nobody tries to become a somebody in Hollywood.
Targeted Age Group:
over 16
I write in different genres so that depends. Fiction has to be entertaining, and nonfiction must be well researched.
What Advice Would You Give Aspiring Writers?
Write, write, and write some more. Try to write every single day, even if it’s only a paragraph or two.
Author Bio:
Lisa Maliga has been writing ever since she learned how to put crayon to paper back in kindergarten. Since then, she has learned to type and uses a laptop, citing it as way more convenient. She still makes and uses her own soapy creations. You’ll find more about her work at: http://www.lisamaliga.com
During my tenure as a temp I encountered many of the situations written about in this book. In many cases, names have been changed.
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