Hollywood Screenwriter Signs New Novel at Barnes & Noble, Jacksonville, FL

Jacksonville, FL, January 22, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Jacksonville resident Sharon Y. Cobb will sign her new book, False Confessions of a True Hollywood Screenwriter, at Barnes & Noble, St. Johns Town Center, Saturday, January 28, beginning at 2:00 p.m. The public is invited to attend the book signing and meet Ms. Cobb.

Ms. Cobb lived and worked in Hollywood as a professional screenwriter for eight years. She continues writing film projects from her home in Avondale where she lives with her tall husband and short dog. Ms. Cobb began writing False Confessions after moving back to Jacksonville from Beverly Hills.

Sharon Y. Cobb is a professional screenwriter and member of the Writers Guild of America west. She has sold over a dozen projects to Hollywood and had some films made. One of her favorites is a British comedy, Lighthouse Hill, starring Jason Flemyng. She also sold a script to Fox 2000 with Danny Glover attached to star and produce. Her TBS cable movie “On Hostile Ground” pulled huge ratings. Ms. Cobb is the former director of the UNF Writers Conference, former editor of Jacksonville Today magazine and founding editor of Coastal Living magazine (formerly Coastal Home).

False Confessions of a True Hollywood Screenwriter is an action comedy about a screenwriter who aspires to be on the A-List. But it’s not until Liz takes on Hollywood — in an estrogen-fueled rampage including kidnapping her lying, scheming agents and a movie star, a hostage standoff, a nationally televised car chase, and a siege by SWAT teams — that she realizes only in Hell-A could crime run amuck have such a deliriously happy Hollywood ending. It’s a story about taking fate hostage, shaping your own destiny and never giving up. Never.

The book is also available as a paperback and e-book at BarnesAndNoble.com, Amazon.com and as an autographed paperback at Ms. Cobb’s author website, www.SharonYCobb.com.

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False Confessions of a True Hollywood Screenwriter, Fact or Fiction?

False Confessions of a True Hollywood Screenwriter is a book of faction. Part faction, part fiction. Part author autobiography, part writer’s wild imagination. So what parts of the novel are truly taken from the author’s life and what are false?

True Or False?
In the book, Liz Bradbury meets Tennessee Williams when she lives in Key West, Florida, and is inspired to become a fiction writer.

True. Sharon Y. Cobb lived in Key West from 1981 to 1987. She met Tennessee Williams, or Tom, in front of Guild Hall Gallery where she was a craftswoman. He walked by the gallery on Duval Street with his bodyguard on his way to afternoon cocktails and tipped his hat with his cane when he saw Ms. Cobb working on her studio balcony. One day she dashed out to meet Tom and asked his advice about fiction writing.

True Or False?
In the book, Liz barely avoids running down spectators while driving her formula race car in a Key West parade.

True. Ms. Cobb was a member of the Key West Chapter of the Sports Car Club of America and raced her Formula Vee in autocross competitions in South Florida. When members of the club showed off their slalom skills on streets lined by parade-goers, Ms. Cobb’s car’s throttle suddenly jammed as her car rounded a pylon. The car accelerated straight for the crowd. Spectators thought it was part of the show. It took all her strength to turn the car back away from the sidewalk, slam the transmission into neutral and shut the engine off just as one of the 21-inch-wide back tires slid into the curb.

True Or False?
When her Hollywood agents lie and cheat, Liz takes them hostage, escaping with them and fleeing to a movie star’s mansion. Did the author actually commit a justifiable felony such as kidnapping just to sell a screenplay?

False. Fortunately, no.