Tuesday, August 18, 2015

From Libby Fischer Hellmann

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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 InnocenceNobody's ChildHavana 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.

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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.  

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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.  

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The Incidental Spy

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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.

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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  

1 comment:

Mathew Paust said...

Enjoyed the pitch post. My ex did some writing for a producer in L.A. before we met, and said the movie Adaptation captures well the cynical, fickle, wholly unpredictable Hollywood milieu.