The aforementioned Josh Kilmer-Purcell (and friend of Edith's)has a new novel coming out in just over a month called Candy Everybody Wants. This is a fantastically funny novel about Jayson, young gay man from Wisconsin who dreams of making it big in Hollywood (Josh swears it's not autobiographical ;)). You can read an advance sneak peek of the first chapter here.
Jayson's solution to making it big is to film a pilot episode of a primetime soap opera that he creates, writes, directs, and stars in himself – in his own backyard. He’s actually his own costars as well, since, given the lack of other potential celebrities in Oconocomowoc, Wisconsin, he has to play almost all of the roles himself. Even the female ones. In drag, of course. (It’s fiction. Really.) The name of the show? "Dallasty: Oconocomowoc Landing."
If you, or someone you know, wants to be a star themselves, click on over to Josh's blog where he's running a contest in which you can record yourself performing a typically over-the-top 1980's soap scene from "Dallasty." Josh will take parts from all the videos he receives to create one 'lost episode' of Dallasty that he'll post on MySpace on the book's on-sale date of 5/13. This could be your time to shine!
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