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Love, Sometimes

A Novel About Risk, Hollywood, and Controversial Love

By: Barbara Rose Brooker

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Love, Sometimes

A Novel About Risk, Hollywood, and Controversial Love

By: Barbara Rose Brooker

A passionate, sixty-eight-year-old author single-handedly fights ageism in the Hollywood networks and risks her TV series, fame, and fortune—finding controversial true love along the way. After publishing many books, and many failed TV opportunities, Bette Roseman finally signs a network contract for a TV series based on her novel, The Viagra Diaries, and dreams of a hit show. But when WC Network changes her protagonist’s age from sixty to twenty-something, Bette angrily confronts Network CEO Joshua Bitterman. She demands that her protagonist maintain her original age, but he insists the public “wants young.” After betrayal, intrigue, bartering with the multi-million-dollar network, the impassioned Bette finds herself in the middle of a high-stakes Hollywood legal court battle. Wanting to make deeper connection with her feelings, writing, and her two adult daughters, she begins to explore her past and her subconscious for her truths.

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Post Hill Press

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1642934127

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Anyone Can Write

By: Barbara Rose Brooker

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Anyone Can Write

By: Barbara Rose Brooker

Anyone Can Write Is For Every Writer. Everyone has a story! Anyone can write and publish a book. This book is for every writer at every age and every genre. The most ordinary incident, recollection, dream can develop into a novel, a movie, a short story. Use your life experiences, and write! ANYONE CAN WRITE /WRITING AEROBICS/is an anecdotal book about the author's process and experiences with agents, publishers and process. The writing aerobics are a step by step guide into the beginning, middle and end. The author will take you from an idea into a premise and table of contents and logline and storyboard and all elements of craft. These simple aerobics enable you to get started, help you to develop your idea into a structure and finally show you how to get your work published.

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269

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Xlibris Corporation

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1465317600

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9781465317605

God Doesn't Make Trash

By: Barbara Rose Brooker

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God Doesn't Make Trash

By: Barbara Rose Brooker

In Publisher’s Weekly April 23, 2001 issue, the industry magazine spotlighted the LGBT book scene in 2001. In his article prefacing a list of nearly 200 selected Gay and Lesbian titles, Charles Hix stated: “Significantly, the number of books dealing primarily with AIDS is down compared to 2000...AIDS is now more likely to be treated as an incidental fact, not a focus.” Indeed, scanning the titles and descriptions of the books listed in the article, I counted only eight titles that spoke of AIDS specifically. There appears to be little interest anymore in the personal stories of those lost. Indeed, it takes the stature of an Edmund White to even interest a major publisher in another collection of cenotaphs. What then do we make of Barbara Rose Brooker’s brave little book recounting the stories of friends and acquaintances long dead from AIDS? The book’s title comes from a conversation Brooker had with former Marlboro Man and later AIDS model, Christian Haren. Brooker, a struggling novelist with two young daughters had been a reluctant but loving witness to her next door neighbor’s early agonizing victimization and discrimination preceeding his death from the virus and its complications. In an effort to fulfill a promise to her friend, Brooker sets about taping interviews with AIDS patients in a half-hearted attempt to document their stories. Christian Haren was her first interviewee. Galvanized by anger and illness, co-opted by the nascent AIDS response movement as a poster child, Haren is in a unique position to usher Brooker to the Castro and San Francisco General Hospital’s earliest AIDS ward in the rapidly blackening early days of the pandemic. Constantly, Haren pushes her to listen, to record, to write. Alternately cajoling and hectoring, the dying Haren manages to inspire the straight, Jewish, liberal Brooker to undertake a project which was to haunt her for the following fifteen years. The product of that haunting, some twenty-nine chapters profiling men and women, gay and straight in the grips of a time and a disease, is really as much a portrait of middle class America’s dawning awareness of and helpless witness to the pandemic as it is of the dying’s. The dying themselves are vibrantly recalled in Brooker’s tender, elegaic chronicalling, but it is the portrait of Brooker herself that is most compelling. Her journey from sympathetic bystander to paralyzed witness to stoic promise-keeper is a genuine document of a time and a place that seems, unfortunately, to have an expired shelf-life. That is the pity and the promise of this fine little book. Pity that it might easily go unread and ignored for now, but it promises to be a classic for the times to come. I have written before that history is most intimately experienced by small people in small places. We are lucky to have this small history now and waiting again in a huge unknown future. -by Jay Quinn Lambda Book Report July/August 2001

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Love, Sometimes

A Novel About Risk, Hollywood, and Controversial Love

By: Barbara Rose Brooker

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A Novel About Risk, Hollywood, and Controversial Love

By: Barbara Rose Brooker

After publishing many books, and many failed TV opportunities, Bette Roseman finally signs a network contract for a TV series based on her novel, The Viagra Diaries, and dreams of a hit show. But when WC Network changes her protagonist’s age from sixty to twenty-something, Bette angrily confronts Network CEO Joshua Bitterman. She demands that her protagonist maintain her original age, but he insists the public “wants young.” After betrayal, intrigue, bartering with the multi-million-dollar network, the impassioned Bette finds herself in the middle of a high-stakes Hollywood legal court battle. Wanting to make deeper connection with her feelings, writing, and her two adult daughters, she begins to explore her past and her subconscious for her truths.

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Post Hill Press

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1642934135

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Should I Sleep in His Dead Wife's Bed

By: Barbara Rose Brooker

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Should I Sleep in His Dead Wife's Bed

By: Barbara Rose Brooker

Barbara is utterly fearless-is there anything she will not discuss in detail? Find out yourself in her new book." -Kathie Lee Gifford, The Today Show "I couldn't put the book down. I carried it around with me. The characters are my best friends and they're ageless!" -Cristina Ferrare, author/chef on Oprah "I love this book. It's for all ages in our new boomer generation. I found the characters funny, fun and inspiring for boomer women of the new ageless generation." -Marissa Winokur, singer/stage & film star "This book is important to read for creative women over fifty who ignore ageism and try to make a difference in the arts." -Paula Abdul, dancer/choreographer/television star "I laughed aloud and cried. The author is on target about women and men over fifty and sixty. This is an important book and a great read." -Lisa Rinna, actor A saucy tale about boomer love and having it all after sixty. Dr. Katy Roseman, 63-year-old Ph.D. psychologist, explores dating. But all the boomer men she meets want her to sleep in their dead wives' beds. She doesn't want to be a replacement. She wants it all: romantic love, intimacy, sex, and career. She gets it all!

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Llumina Press

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1625503393

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9781625503398

Anyone Can Write

By: Barbara Rose Brooker

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God Doesn't Make Trash

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So Long, Princess

By: Barbara Brooker

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So Long, Princess

By: Barbara Brooker

A hilarious love story with a happy ending, introducing Lisa Perlman, a new heroine of the '80s who deals with a writing career, lovers who come and go, an imposing mother, and a brother who just came out of the closet.

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William Morrow

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068806938X

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9780688069384

Book's by Barbara Rose Brooker

Love, Sometimes

Love, Sometimes

Anyone Can Write

Anyone Can Write

God Doesn't Make Trash

God Doesn't Make Trash

Love, Sometimes

Love, Sometimes

Should I Sleep in His Dead Wife's Bed

Should I Sleep in His Dead Wife's Bed

Anyone Can Write

Anyone Can Write

God Doesn't Make Trash

God Doesn't Make Trash

So Long, Princess

So Long, Princess

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