I am a novelist!
In 1939 a starving farm girl goes to Tinseltown to be a star.
Things DON'T go as planned.
http://stonegarden.net/ in general fiction
check me out at: http://peterjosephswanson.blogspot.com/ (and there's excerpts)
A few reviews:
Swanson beautifully captures the feel and spirit of a strange period in American history – the last years of the Great Depression, right before World War II. I love the writing, the characters are terrific, and the action will leave you breathless. This is another page turner, but I don’t want to give anything away, by telling you very much about the plot. Suffice it to say that you will be surprised from the first chapter on. You are also going to have some strong feelings about the main character, a sweet (??) young thing who goes to Hollywood to make her fortune in 1939. And boy does she ever. I thought she was great. You might not like her at all. But I guarantee that you will love this book. Gift wrap this one for anybody (over the age of 18 that is, there is just the right amount of R rated stuff to make it fun). Sy Garte
A Review Of Hollywood Sinners by Peter Joseph Swanson
by Kay M.
November 01, 2007
Is the grass always greener? Starving young Karin Panotchitch, a sheep farmer's daughter, was sure she would find greener pastures in 1930's Hollywood . After disposing of her abusive husband she set out on the highway, certain that she was destined for stardom. What did she find in Hollywood? The title of this book is fair warning.
Karen is both a victim and a perpetrator. At times I felt sympathy for her while at other times I wanted to slap her silly and often I found myself cheering her on. I think this is the way her boss, Mama Gravy, might have felt about her as well. Mama Gravy is the the lesbian owner of the dance hall where Karen ends up after failing to find gainful employment in Hollywood shops. A girl has got to eat.
When Karen is not dancing, she is cavorting with sleazy B movie directors and a mobster family who are planning to take over MGM. Yes, murder and mayhem ensue! Now what would a girl like that have to do with a nun on a trolley?
No dull moments in this book. I laughed, I cried. Well, actually I am lying about the crying part. You can find this book in paperback at StoneGarden.net.
Peter Swanson's Hollywood Sinners is a loopy "Wizard of Oz" where assorted down-at-heel characters, all of them of questionable virtue, cross paths in 1930's Hollywood -- specifically and tellingly, in 1939 when "The Wizard of Oz" was filmed. Farm girl Karin Panotchitch is journeying to Oz -- or rather, Hollywood -- to become a big star, but instead of munchkins to lead her down the yellow brick road, she meets sinners with delusions of grandeur who make up Hollywood's underbelly. Swanson's writing is off-the-wall and irreverent, speckled with period slang, and characters with names like "Mama Gravy," reminiscent of Ronald Firbank ("The Flower Beneath the Foot") whose work, although dubbed a "specialized taste" (and often published at his own expense), has gained recognition and its own cult following. The first in a Tinseltown trilogy, Hollywood Sinners shows a deranged sense of humor and love of Old Hollywood, portraying a city with more sinners than saints, by far. But the "angels" are there, too, in the form of nuns who are shaping eyebrows as much as saving souls. - d. nowak
a few more of my favorite links -
Mychael Black is a popular author of erotic gay fiction http://www.mychaelblack.com/index.html
Vana Roth is the author of the novel A NATION OF EXPENDABLES http://www.vanaroth.com/default.htm
J. H. Bogran is a fiction writer of novels and short stories http://www.jhbogran.net/
Reviews of all Joan Crawford's movies by Donna Marie Nowak http://www.filmsofcrawford.com/
Neil Maciejewski's EPIC Joan Crawford fan site http://joancrawfordma.tripod.com/index.html
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