Bøger af Elizabeth Sims

Aspiring actress and single mother Rita Farmer has gone from struggling to find work to downright desperate. If she doesn't land a paying job soon-horror movie, soap commercial, anything-she's afraid her ex-husband will use her dire financial straits to take away Petey, her cherished four-year-old son. While she's charming the crowd at storytime at the L.A. public library, a celebrity defense attorney approaches her with an unusual job offer: So long as she's discreet, Rita can rake in a thousand dollars a day preparing his client for her appearance in court.Easy money? Hardly. His client, Eileen Tenaway, is not only a wealthy heiress and a queen of the tabloids but she's been charged with the murder of her own child. The attorney needs Rita to coach Eileen secretly to help her seem more sympathetic, more human. He needs the jury to believe not only her words but the subtle cues of body language, facial expressions, even vocal style.Rita knows she can do it, but what she doesn't know is how determined she'll become to find out what really happened to Eileen's family-once her own life and Petey's life depend on it. The Actress, Elizabeth Sims's engrossing series debuting a spirited sleuth, delivers a fresh, behind-the-scenes look at Hollywood's high society at its lowest.

Elnice Coker and her husband Arthur, retired schoolteachers, move from Indiana to the Hollywood Hills in a last-ditch attempt at novelty and happiness. California alone can't do the trick, but when Elnice befriends her housecleaner, Solita, her life opens up to friendship and intrigue. Elnice teaches Solita English although Solita's common-law husband, Luis, is against it. The women build a secret, tentative friendship.Meanwhile, wannabe novelist Jason M is busy writing faulty information into tech manuals for airplane-making machines at a factory in the Valley. One of a swarm of corporate saboteurs scattered around Los Angeles, he's bossed by a nameless, exacting mentor. But when he begins to have ethical doubts, he discovers it's harder to get out than it was to get in.The lure of easy money casts its spell over everybody, and as Elnice and Solita grow closer, they encounter treachery and danger where they least expect it. The saboteurs intertwine, innocent lives hang in the balance, and as Elnice risks everything to dig deeper, she learns the value of rejecting safety-and living life to the max.

Rita Farmer knows exactly how hard it is to break into the movie business. Acting was the big dream that brought her out to L.A. in the first place. And while she never made the red carpet, that big dream did turn into a modest profession that kept her and her son afloat. So from time to time she'll lend her talents as a favor.Kenner and Lance de Sauvenard, heirs to a timber fortune, don't really need a favor to make their art film, but since Lance is dating Rita's sister, Gina, there's no way for Rita to worm her way out of a read-through. Gina is all for the project-or at least her new boyfriend-and she goes with Lance to scout locations on his family's land holdings in the Northwest. When they don't return as planned and flood waters start to rise, Rita can't help dashing into the wilds to bring her sister home, and when foul play becomes more and more likely, her sometime lover, George Rowe, is right on her heels.In ON LOCATION, Elizabeth Sims brings the Pacific Northwest to storm-lashed life, as quirky, lovable Rita grapples not only with the weather, but with backwoods justice--and her own dark side.

Rita Farmer knows what it feels like to be flat broke. Even now, when studying to be a lawyer, Rita is so far in debt that she has to scrounge for acting jobs to keep herself and her son afloat. Decked out in police uniform as an extra on a low-budget movie shoot, she wanders into a rough part of town and is pulled into a vicious assault. Rita chases off the assailants but doesn't escape unscathed, and the boy they attacked isn't out of danger yet. His injuries could last the rest of his life.Rita's heart goes out to him and his grandmother, Amaryllis B. Cubitt, the director of an urban mission that Rita had turned to for help years ago. But the mission has changed from its unassuming past and is now flush with secret donations and gruff guards posted at the doors. Rita can't but wonder if now Amaryllis is too proud to ask for the help she needs.Smart and charming, Rita Farmer is back in the spotlight in The Extra, a second act that is as dazzling and delightful as the first.

These four short stories by award-winning author Elizabeth Sims are her hand-picked favorites. Love stories? Happy endings? Tough breaks? We got 'em. If you're a fan of the Lillian Byrd crime novels, you'll be delighted to finally know what Calico Jones thinks about when she's tied up, awaiting execution at the hands of geopolitical terrorists. Regrets? She's had a few. The three other stories explore the range of lesbian experience from wacky to warm, from heartbreak to hilarity. Says an early reviewer: "You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll want to go camping." We might add, you'll never feel the same standing in front of a bank teller again."ANYONE assessing America's best short story writers needs to include Elizabeth Sims in their survey." -- New Pop Lit

These four eclectic short stories by award-winning author Elizabeth Sims are her hand-picked favorites. Love stories? Happy endings? Tough breaks? We got 'em. If you're a fan of the Lillian Byrd crime novels, you'll be delighted to finally know what Calico Jones thinks about when she's tied up, awaiting execution at the hands of geopolitical terrorists. Regrets? She's had a few. The three other stories explore the range of lesbian experience from wacky to warm, from heartbreak to hilarity. Says an early reviewer: "You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll want to go camping." We might add, you'll never feel the same standing in front of a bank teller again. "Anyone assessing America's best short story writers needs to include Elizabeth Sims in their survey."-- New Pop Lit

Two men, Paxton Frost and Ignatius, are joined and separated by centuries. Paxton is the illegitimate son of a born again christen woman. An expert in baryogenesis, he joins a team in England testing M theory. Socially inept and emotionally immature, he finds security, if no comfort, in social isolation. Ignatius is the bastard son of the Duke Despensers. After he comes of age, he enters into religious life. Second son to the duke, he is determined to live life and experience the world according to his rules. An accident in a test sends Paxton falling into medieval England. He is barely able to speak with the people of this this time. He has no useful skills and no way back to his world. Staying in a monastery he becomes friends with a postulant, Ignatius. Sent to the castle of the Lady Wilhelmina, to await trial as a warlock, he falls in love with a prostitute, Beatrice. Ignatius's lust for power and women turns him against the man he called "brother." He is now on a personal mission to destroy Paxton and Beatrice. Paxton's team members manage to bring him back, but not without consequences, for Paxton, Beatrice, their unborn child, and history. He decides to go back, put history back on its original course, and confront his "brother."

How do you find the time to write? Keep momentum? How do you deal with the horror of showing anyone a single sentence of your work-in-progress? The answers remain fun and easy, and author Elizabeth Sims will take your hand, dispel your worries, and show you how it's done in this stress-free guide to accomplishing your dream of writing your book.