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Hollywood is a place full of dreamers-from the wide-eyed actor hoping to land the role of a lifetime to the hard-working writer trying to sell that breakout script. The lowly production assistant eager to finance their first movie to the craft services worker aspiring to be the next Spielberg.
Whoever they are, these people have one thing in common-they are desperate to bring their dreams to fruition, hustling for opportunity, and willing to do anything to get to the next rung on the ladder. Legal or not.
In Hollywood Kills, you'll find shocking short fiction about the dark underbelly of show business-written by those who know it firsthand.
They'll take you deep inside their cutthroat world, with sixteen stories featuring a producer, sitcom writer, character actor, entertainment lawyer, sound mixer, background actor, aspiring actor, stuntman, casting director, soap opera star, true crime writer, editor, director, production assistant, set caterer, and screenwriting team.
It's a close-up look at the dark side of ambition with an all-star cast of schemers, dreamers, killers, and con artists...and their stories will stick with you long after the credits roll.
Stories by:
Matt Goldman - Phoef Sutton - Eric Beetner - Ellen Byron - Tiffany D. Plunkett - Robert Rotstein - Adam Meyer - Stacy Woodson - Gary Phillips - Shawn Reilly Simmons - Stuart Orloff and Alan Orloff - Kathryn O'Sullivan and Paul Awad - John Shepphird - Teel James Glen - Jon Lindstrom - Wendall Thomas
Adam Meyer is a writer/producer and a Derringer Award-winning and Shamus Award-nominated fiction writer. He has scripted several TV movies as well as written shows for Fox, CBS, National Geographic, Tubi, and others, including the long-running America's Most Wanted. His short fiction has appeared in many anthologies. He is also the editor of In Too Deep: Crime Stories Inspired by the Songs of Genesis.
Alan Orloff has published twelve novels and more than fifty short stories. His work has won an Anthony, an Agatha, a Derringer, and two ITW Thriller Awards. He's also been a finalist for the Shamus Award and has had a story selected for Best American Mystery Stories 2018. He's adapted two of his novels into screenplays, and, man, is he desperate to make it big in Hollywood. www.alanorloff.com
