Valerie needs to save her rapidly shrinking book club. So when one member recruits a flamboyant, mysterious local waitress named Cinnamon, it’s a mixed blessing. Valerie knows she needs more members, but Cinnamon rubs her the wrong way. And when she starts proposing changes to Valerie’s book club, Valerie wants her out. With Cinnamon growing in popularity, Valerie is pushed outside her comfort zone and her well-ordered life begins to spiral, starting with the arrival of Wyatt Pettibone, the first man to ever be ...
Valerie needs to save her rapidly shrinking book club. So when one member recruits a flamboyant, mysterious local waitress named Cinnamon, it’s a mixed blessing. Valerie knows she needs more members, but Cinnamon rubs her the wrong way. And when she starts proposing changes to Valerie’s book club, Valerie wants her out. With Cinnamon growing in popularity, Valerie is pushed outside her comfort zone and her well-ordered life begins to spiral, starting with the arrival of Wyatt Pettibone, the first man to ever be in the book club. Next comes the news that a former member, another Valerie nemesis, wants to come back. But when Valerie learns a dark secret about Cinnamon’s past, she realizes that having her in the book club may be just the thing to save it.
D.B. Gilles teaches Comedy Writing at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He’s also a produced and published playwright. His comedies include Men’s Singles, The Girl Who Loved the Beatles, and Inadmissible. He is also one of the most in-demand script consultants and writing coaches in the country, and the author of the popular screenwriting book The Screenwriter Within 2nd Edition: New Strategies to Finish Your Screenplay and Get A Deal. He has also written books on filmmaking (The Portable Film School) and comedy (You’re Funny! Turn Your Sense of Humor Into a Lucrative New Career). His first novel, Colder Than Death, is a mystery about a small town funeral director who realizes a serial killer has been preying on the women in his town for 20 years.
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