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All right, Mr. DeMille…

  I’m ready for my Kindle version…

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Fasten your seatbelts, Beguilers, it’s going to be a bumpy night!

Guess what’s available on Kindle?  

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Joan Collins, in the words of Mr. Lester, “Zowie!”

“Have you met my significant other?” Anne shook her head, expecting him to introduce a strapping young man, possibly, most likely, in the acting profession. Instead he blew a kiss to a taught, angular...

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“There is a dreadful story that I hate actors. Imagine anyone hating James...

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“Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.” James Stewart

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Read any good books lately? Greta Garbo

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This time last year I was deep into the novel, working with my line editor in...

An example of a photo you’d take while waiting to receive your editor’s daily notes – how could anyone question the literary output of one who would wear such socks? Now you see exactly why I need an...

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Frankly, my dear…

at 5.99 on Kindle “It’s in His Kiss” is a damn good read.

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In memory of one of my makers…

Babies, that’s Pop, sometime in the late 1940s early 1950s. You know, I’ve mentioned him and my uncle a couple of times on the weblog: Once upon a time (when I was oh so much younger) I cracked wise to...

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“How could I have known that murder could sometimes smell like honeysuckle?”...

Definition of film noir plural film noirs \-ˈnwär(z)\ or films noir or films noirs \-ˈnwär\ :  a type of crime film featuring cynical malevolent characters in a sleazy setting and an ominous...

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READ ANY GOOD BOOKS LATELY? RITA HAYWORTH

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VICE – AVA GARDNER AND PAL STUDY RACING FORMS AT DEL MAR

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MYSTERY – JOAN FONTAINE IS BESET BY SUSPICION

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A California Good Morning – with Paulette Goddard

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This is the first of two posts for The Perfumed Dandy – a word on Bleak...

Hello Fearless Readers, it’s time once again for a brief post from Beguiling Hollywood’s Perfidious Albion (that’s “England” for the sane among you!) Correspondent while Ms Lester recovers from viral...

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Ever wonder what it feels like waiting to hear from your publishers?

Kinda like this… Like Hitchcock is looming over your shoulder. Let me walk you through it. They gave you your break. They alternately praised you and harangued you. Some of it was downright dismal....

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Waiting…with Marlene Dietrich in black lace…on bed

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And waiting, this time with champagne…and Ann-Margret

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Hold please. Strange developments afoot, book-wise. Or as Sherlock would say...

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From publishing deal to self publishing in the blink of an eye. Poppets,...

No matter how you design it, or chart it out, things change. This Friday, past the end of  business hours I heard some astonishing news. My joint-publishing partners were no longer a publishing entity....

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I’ve got something on my mind… it might have a bit to do with stagefright

I am doing something I’ve never done before, and I’m going to read, out loud, a little bit of my novel, “It’s in His Kiss”, and post it on the site tomorrow. It is saucy, mildly funny, it is about...

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This is the one who slapped a cop…

When I was a kid the Gabors roamed Palm Springs. Zsa Zsa, pictured here, Eva, of television fame, Magda, who married well and often. Their mama, Jolie was a jewelry designer (I think) and I know she...

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Have you heard what that Vickie Lester is up to? Why, it’s perfectly scandalous!

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If Audrey Hepburn had a potty mouth, she might have written It’s in His Kiss

Pouf Honey! Before we begin, I said to the Mister recently that if his current Herr Direktör didn’t let him go home early, I would go down to the set with a pair of pinking shears with which I’d cut...

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Oh lookie! I spared you another reading, but you’re not getting away from my...

*** An excerpt from “It’s In His Kiss”… in which our heroine arrives in Palm Springs. by Vickie Lester While her father ran a media conglomerate, Uncle Manny (once a medical student whose aspirations...

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Romantic LA. The Mister took me out to dinner tonight, not because we were...

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If you work on a film set this is not how you wake up in the morning. I don’t...

Does anyone wake up like this, even on a Sunday morning? With a fresh cup of coffee in a china cup and the paper in disarray on the sheets? Join me in the fantasy… Why, I believe she must be reading...

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I think dim sum Sunday just turned into free association Sunday…

Usually when I wake on Sunday mornings I have dim sum palaces on my mind: piles of jade green vegetables sauteed with shards of garlic, barbecued duck and scallions rolled in delicate pancakes,...

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I let the audience use their imaginations. Can I help it if they misconstrue...

  Ernst Lubitsch and John Barrymore on the set of Eternal Love (1927)   Hold on, I feel something in the zeitgeist, a surge through the ether…somebody stop me…could it be? Another handy hashtag?...

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What a surprise! Here’s Vickie Lester again, yammering about her novel…

First, let’s get something absolutely straight. I will be wearing these overalls until the book is published, they turn into dust, or Mr. Lester burns them: whichever comes first. I did know a young...

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I’m reading through galley proofs of my novel, and getting a little...

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How I keep from getting jittery on coffee while proofing manuscript, fill the...

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Things are looking up in Hollywood, at which point I become insufferable, the...

 

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It’s in his Kiss, everyone has a secret: once-wealthy moguls, studio...

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A camera-ready world of fantasy fulfilled, artifice and bone-deep glamour —...

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It’s In His Kiss roams from the dark underbelly of Palm Springs to the power...

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It’s In His Kiss: Amazon.co.uk: Vickie Lester: Books

It’s In His Kiss: Amazon.co.uk: Vickie Lester: Books. I have no idea how it happened, but if you live in the UK you can order the book now, and get it as fast as the post will carry it. How did that...

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Get the smelling salts! We just went live on Amazon! Click on the photo and...

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Write what you know…and then grit your teeth and publish. With an older and...

Write what you know??? If that were true all you’d be hearing from me is, “Blah-blah-blah, perimenopause, blah-blah-blah, who didn’t close the refrigerator?, blah-blah-blah, that director is an...

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Lana Turner, thank goodness she wasn’t your mama… Happy Mother’s Day!

 

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Beware, reading epidemic… an alert by George Kaplan!

*** There is a new reading epidemic in California this Summer. L.A.P.D. are seeking a Book Pushing Kingpin (Queenpin) known only as Vickie L, or Miss Vickie, she is described as a little over 5ft tall...

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Coast to coast with Vickie Lester…

Congratulations to my friend Vickie Lester on her first book! Amazing! And addicted to her blog: Beguiling Hollywood. – “I’ve got my copy too!” Oh boy! My book is bi-coastal, or as Bryan Singer would...

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I love Los Angeles. I love the light. I love the eclecticism and the...

So, when I satirize, or say dark things about the city in my novel, know that it comes from an abiding devotion to a place I call home. These pictures are not from my home. This place was designed by...

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I am about to become insufferable, again. The Kindle version of “It’s In His...

On Beguiling we’re looking at what I hope is an amusing day of book ads tomorrow. If the promo stuff is beginning to give you the heebie-jeebies, steer clear of the site. Listen, the book is doing...

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Made it, Ma! Top of the world!

My book is available on Kindle…

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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers…

to purchase my book for 5.99 on Kindle.

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Elementary, my dear Watson. It’s a Kindle…

…obviously owned by a personage of taste and distinction. From the looks of it, an avid reader. On it the works of Cicero, Voltaire, and Vickie Lester!

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Listen to them. Children of the night…

laughing as they read “It’s in His Kiss”—the blood of Hollywood. I hope you will like it.

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I want to be alone.

I’m halfway through “It’s in His Kiss”

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Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.

With her Kindle…

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