From Libby Fischer Hellmann

Move                                  + Copy                 × Delete                                 Hi Ed,​                 +                 ×                                   Move                                  + Copy                 × Delete                                 Did you see Robert Altman's movie The Player?  Good film, by the way, with Tim Robbins. (See  the official movie trailer here.) Last week, I flew  out to Hollywood (LA, really) to pitch my books  to a dozen production companies. Sounds cool, right? Actually it was more like a speed-dating marathon.  I had five minutes with each company, and I pitched  Easy Innocence, Nobody's Child, Havana Lost, and a  Bitter Veil, depending on what the company seemed  to want. To find out more about the experience --  some of it amusing, some not so much -- head to  my blog post called Movies 'R Us here. ​   Move                                  + Copy × Delete                                   Move                                  + Copy                × Delete                                                 +                 ×                                   Move                                  + Copy                 × Delete                                 WHAT I DO BETWEEN BOOKS High five here! I recently finished the 5th thriller  in the Ellie Foreman Series! It's called Jump Cut –  both my background and Ellie’s are in film production  -- which is when there's an abrupt cut, or “jump”  in a shot. More on this novel will be coming later. After finishing a book -- well, it's not really finished  until it's published -- there can be a letdown. You  feel like your entire focus is getting the book done,  and then it suddenly is. What do I do next? Well  that's the topic of another blog post called  What I Do Between Books, in case  you're interested.   ​   Move                                  + Copy                 × Delete                                                 +                 ×                                   Move                                  + Copy                 × Delete                                 WRITING CRIME FICTION – MY LOVE- HATE RELATIONSHIP There are some aspects of writing crime fiction  that I LOVE, such as imagining plot twists and turns.  But then there are the parts that I HATE, such as  dragging myself into my office, staring at a blank  screen, forcing myself to write, something, anything,  to move the plot forward. It's excruciating, and  I compare it to being a Polar explorer. Too extreme?   Learn more of what I LOVE  and what I HATE in these blog posts.   ​   Move                                  + Copy                 × Delete                                                 +                 ×                                   Move                                  + Copy                 × Delete                                 NEW: AVAILABLE SOON - THE INCIDENTAL SPY Now for the truly gratifying part of being a writer. I'm  thrilled to announce my latest novella: The Incidental  Spy -- set in   the early years of the Manhattan  Project in Chicago.  Here’s the description: Young Lena Bentheim is forced to flee  Nazi Germany for Chicago in 1935, leaving  her family and boyfriend  behind. After learning  English, she eventually finds a new life as a  secretary in the Physics Department of  the University of Chicago. She meets and  marries another German refugee scientist  and has a child. Then tragedy  strikes and Lena is forced to spy  on the nuclear fission  experiments at the U of Chicago. You can purchase the print version here, and I hope  you will. The ebook version won’t be out for another  month or so, but either way, honest reviews are  always welcome, as those of you on the  Libby's Review  Crew already know. ​   Move                                  + Copy                 × Delete                                 Thank you for being part of my gang. You keep  me going, and  I couldn't do it without you. Happy reading, and until next time... Warmly, Libby