Former soapie actress Victoria Rowell (Drucilla Winters on The Young and the Restless) says she has been working on her debut novel Secrets of a Soap Opera Diva for about 10 years. The summary says: "Calysta Jeffries is the hottest black actress in daytime and the diva of the soap opera world, known for her role as Ruby Stargazer on television's most popular soap opera, The Rich and the Ruthless. After 15 years, three returns from the dead, two failed pregnancies, one alien abduction, and overcoming retrograde amnesia, Calysta still hasn't managed to snag the biggest award in daytime drama: the Sudsy. Now is supposed to be her moment. But Calysta's onscreen-offscreen rival Emmy Abernathy wins the award for the fourth time. The drama begins when journalist Mitch Morelli asks Calysta for a quote after the award show and her true feelings for her co-star slip out." Rowell has also written a memoir called The Women Who Raised Me about her life as a foster child. Secrets of a Soap Opera Diva is out in May.

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