NEW RELEASE
Someday, Someday, Maybe - Lauren Graham (2013)
Franny Banks has six months left of a three-year plan to become an actor in New York City. While working towards her big break, she's also waitressing, taking acting classes, and trying not to get swept up in James Franklin, the hottest and most talented guy in her acting class. She is hopeful the upcoming showcase for her acting class will be the springboard to stardom she is looking for. If not, she will be forced to come up with a "Plan B" for her life, which she realises she's not quite prepared to do just yet. Actress Lauren Graham has created some really wonderful characters and given them a storyline that is both fresh and entertaining. The dialogue is brilliant and conveys in great detail Franny's feelings and insecurities about her chosen profession, the people around her, and her life as a twenty-something navigating life. First time is a charm for Ms Graham! (LEK)
Actress Lauren Graham (Gilmore Girls and Parenthood) has written her debut novel, Someday, Someday, Maybe, about a struggling young actress trying to get ahead - and keep it together - in New York City. The summary says: "It's January 1995, and Franny Banks has just six months left of the three-year deadline she set for herself when she came to New York, dreaming of Broadway and doing 'important' work. But all she has to show for her efforts so far is a part in an ad for ugly Christmas sweaters, and a gig waiting tables at a comedy club. Her roommates - her best friend Jane, and Dan, an aspiring sci-fi writer - are supportive, yet Franny knows a two-person fan club doesn't exactly count as success. Everyone tells her she needs a backup plan, and though she can almost picture moving back home and settling down with her perfectly nice ex-boyfriend, she's not ready to give up on her goal of having a career like her idols Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep. Not just yet. But while she dreams of filling their shoes, in the meantime, she'd happily settle for a speaking part in almost anything - and finding a hair product combination that works. Everything is riding on the upcoming showcase for her acting class, where she'll finally have a chance to perform for people who could actually hire her. And she can't let herself be distracted by James Franklin, a notorious flirt and the most successful actor in her class, even though he's suddenly started paying attention. Meanwhile, her bank account is rapidly dwindling, her father wants her to come home, and her agent doesn't return her calls. But for some reason, she keeps believing that she just might get what she came for." Someday, Someday, Maybe is out in April.