Sharon Y. Cobb

THE OTHER HALF IN TOP 15 FINALISTS OF 48 GO GREEN

Best Friends’ short film placed in the Top 15 Finalists of the 2012 48 Go Green International Film Competition, Group A. The film competed with 41 other short films in the group. Filmmakers and film fans voted, pushing “The Other Half,” written by Sharon Y. Cobb, into the Top 15 Finalists.

 

 

 

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BARNES & NOBLE BOOK SIGNING SOLD OUT!

A huge THANK YOU goes out to all the folks who joined us for the book signing at the Barnes & Noble, St. Johns Town Center in Jacksonville, FL, Saturday, January 28, 2012, 2 p.m.. The store’s supply of False Confessions of a True Hollywood Screenwriter sold out within the first hour! Thank goodness we brought a reserve box of books and the signing went on through 4 p.m., as promised. I’m so grateful for the enthusiastic show of support and hope everyone enjoys the read.

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FALSE CONFESSIONS OF A TRUE HOLLYWOOD SCREENWRITER

In Hollywood, there are no rules and they’re strictly enforced.

That’s one of the things LIZ BRADBURY learns during her eight long torturous years in Hell-A working as a professional screenwriter. You can’t get an agent until you don’t need one. You can’t sell a script until you’ve already sold one. Paradoxes of the movie business are driving her mad, or at least she is planning to use that as her defense when arrested for kidnapping.

Liz Bradbury is a woman who is a heroine in her own life. She writes strong female protagonists because she is a strong female protagonist. She moved back to her hometown in Florida to be with her family and bakes buttermilk biscuits from her great grandma’s recipe. She plays paintball and races formula cars. Liz is a Southern belle with a rebel yell.
Liz lives with CHRISTOPHER, her ideal man and perfect marriage material. But every time she heads down the aisle, a catastrophe halts the wedding march. The Southern mansion where the wedding is being held explodes, the groom ends up in a two-day coma after a rugby tackle goes wrong and on their third attempt, their plane crash-lands on the way to the private ceremony. Christopher is certain the fates are trying to tell them to forget about making it legal. Liz isn’t so sure.

She’s a screenwriter who aspires to be on the A-List, but in reality she’s on Hollywood’s F-U List. She pays her Writers Guild of America dues. She writes high-concept comedy. She works hard for her list of movie credits. She gets dumped by her agents.
But there must be some mistake. Wasn’t it her big female-driven action comedy, Jane Blonde, that only one month earlier had garnered the attention of every producer in town? Wasn’t it Jane Blonde that her agents said they sent to KATIE PORTMAN, Hollywood’s It Girl, to convince a studio to make the movie? And now her agents are giving other clients her studio writing assignments and they won’t return her calls, dismissing her like one of the UTBFs (Used To Be Famous) roaming the streets of Beverly Hills?

It’s not until she takes on Hollywood on her own terms — in an adventure including SWAT teams, a hostage standoff, the kidnapping of an A-list actress and a nationally televised car chase through the streets of LA — that she realizes only in LA could crime run amuck have such a deliriously happy Hollywood ending.

False Confessions of a True Hollywood Screenwriter is an action-adventure comedy. The tone is similar to the madcap romps of Carl Hiaasen with a dash of Janet Evanovich’s quirky chick-power plotting. The story is about taking fate hostage, shaping your own destiny and never giving up.

Never.