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Crime / Dark Comedy

Hollywood Bodies

1987, Tinseltown

Grand Prize Winner of the 13th Annual Writer's Digest Self-Published E-book Awards, a win that came with $5,000 and a paid trip to the Writer's Digest Annual Conference. Read the full interview.

1987, Hollywood.

Glenda Birdsong, onetime rock star brought low by drugs and bad dieting advice, is working on her comeback album. Then her sleazy manager steals her best song and winds up dead.

Suddenly, bodies are piling up, and all the evidence points to Glenda. She'll need all her wits and legendary stubbornness to survive and find the killer.

Welcome to the jungle, Glenda.

"This story had me asking myself, What if Quentin Tarantino wrote a cozy mystery?"Review
Writer's Digest, 13th Annual Self-Published E-book Awards

From the winning interview

John sat down with Writer's Digest managing editor Moriah Richard to talk about co-writing with Robert Jablon, the challenge of plotting a mystery, and finding a place for a book that doesn't fit neatly into one category.

"We had started writing together accidentally when we were in a diner one time. There was this group of bikers. We wrote our first book just about them as a comedy."John Pulver, on how he and Robert Jablon started writing together
"My best piece of advice would be to choose to walk on the sunny side of the street. Don't get yourself bogged down in the business side of it, but keep enjoying the writing, and nothing in the world can take the place of persistence."John Pulver
Read the Full Interview at Writer's Digest
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