Featured author: Christine DeMaio-Rice

March 5, 2012 by

Today’s featured author is Christine DeMaio-Rice and her featured book is Dead is the New Black.

 

About Christine DeMaio-Rice

“I moved to Los Angeles to study screenwriting at USC, and even though you couldn’t drag me back into the screenwriting business with the promise of money or candy, I love screenplay structure. Use it all the time. It is the crowbar that removes my head from my rectum when such a procedure is required.

I love all types of speculative fiction, and yes I admit to reading vampire books and YA. However, I have not yet met a vampire that inspired me enough to write about him, which is probably the only barrier between myself and a bathtub full of royalty checks.

People (meaning, my friends) have begged me for years to write about the fashion industry, so I’m doing that in the form of a cozy mystery. It’s a funny story, which it had to be because the fashion industry can’t be taken seriously.”

 

About Dead is the New Black: The Fashion Avenue Mysteries

Laura Carnegie gave up on the man of her dreams a long time ago. He’s fashion designer Jeremy St. James, and not only is he her boss, everyone knows he’s gay. 
When he’s arrested for murder, secrets come to light and nothing is what it seems. If Laura can just solve this crime, keep the cops off her tail, break up a counterfeiting ring, and get the show on the runway by Friday, she might stop being Seventh Avenue’s perpetual loser.

Current price: $3.99

 
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Comments

  1. Tracyann0312 says:
    March 5, 2012 at 5:19 am

    Wow! She is really a good writer huh! Christine I have been interested to what your life was when you are in studying as a screenwriter. Is it hard to be one of them? The book you have written is interesting, I must thank Donna for interviewing you.

  2. Christine DeMaio-Ric says:
    March 5, 2012 at 6:02 pm

    Hey Tracy –

    Life as a screenwriter is not very fulfilling. it is about everything BUT writing. It's about filmmaking. It's about business. It's about personal relationships. but it's not about writing.

    I constantly ran around town, asking for permission to tell my stories. Even George Clooney has to ask permission, and it is absolutely deadening, because I'm not asking permission to tell the story I want to tell. Believe me no one wants to finance that. No, they are waiting for me to tell them the story they want to hear. So I spent years guessing at the story some studio executive wanted to hear, when he didn't even know it himself, and never telling the story I wanted to tell.

    As a disclaimer, there are people who are very good at knowing what the execs want to hear. I'm just not one of them.

  3. Katrina Byrd says:
    March 15, 2012 at 8:46 am

    Christine, you are an awesome writer. I love this interview!!!