Los Angeles' Hollywood Book Publicity firm signs new author Shamron Moore of HOLLYWOOD STRIP

LOS ANGELES - June 28, 2013 - PRLog -- Los Angeles, CA - -  Los Angeles - based Hollywood Book Publicity firm
(www.hollywoodbookpublicity.com)  announces it has signed on new author client Ms Shamron Moore, who has penned  Forge Books' HOLLYWOOD STRIP. Book tells the story of an  ambitious actress who discovers that the Hollywood life she sought after is  not so glamorous as she expected.  This new book has been compared to 1960s chick lit icon/ author Jacqueline Susann and her best seller book "The Valley of the Dolls," which was made into a film starring the late Sharon Tate.

Says Hollywood Book Publicity principal Charles A. Barrett, an award-winning book publicist: "Shamron Moore is a gifted author...her book, HOLLYWOOD STRIP will surely become a chick lit classic  for the 21st century...she is an author to watch."  

William Martin, New York Times best seller author (The Lincoln Letter) says HOLLYWOOD STRIP "does for Hollywood what 'Sex and the City ' did for New York, and the Boulevard of Broken Dreams will never be the same. So hot the pages will singe your fingers.”

HOLLYWOOD STRIP  tells the story of Callie Lambert is a small town girl from Michigan. Sexy, beautiful, ambitious, and bored, she decides to pack her bags and trade that boredom for the excitement of Los Angeles.

Author Shamron Moore based much of HOLLYWOOD STRIP on her very own showbiz experiences. For almost eight years, she worked as a model and actress, appearing in national commercials, international publications, TV shows, and feature films.

Moore says that she was inspired  to pen HOLLYWOOD STRIP by reading Jacqueline Susann’s 1966 novel "Valley of the Dolls". “I’m a fan of the late actress Sharon Tate, and have seen all her films. When I saw the film 'Valley of the Dolls', I loved it–it was so ridiculously bad it was fabulous, so I had to read the book. After lots of soul searching, the idea came to me: I can write a novel!  I can spin a juicy yarn and I have a lot of experiences I can rely on to entertain people. That’s when I decided to write a novel myself.”  

Auditioning in her free time and working as a waitress to pay her bills,  HOLLYWOOD STRIP's character Callie relentlessly pursues her big break, taking every opportunity that comes up. Through a series of dramatic and scandalous events, Callie finally hits the big time as the lead in the film "Nympho Cheerleaders Attack! " and it feels like everything is coming together for her–until she runs into betrayal, jealousy, love, and murder. Quickly, Callie finds out that life as a starlet on the rise is not nearly as glamorous as she once imagined.

Said Ms. Moore: “I thought I had my life mapped out, and several years later realized I was bored! I wanted to use my brain, and I was tired of other people calling the shots. It was just unfulfilling. I’d changed and grown and it was a natural evolution. So I left the industry because I was at a crossroads.”

HOLLYWOOD STRIP is intended as the first of a series. It took Moore a little over a year to write, she explains, adding that, “It’s not rooted in materialism–at its heart it’s not about Gucci and Fendi. Of course there are some references–I’m a woman, after all!–but it’s a little gritty–much more sarcastic and irreverent than some of the other chick lit out there.”

She wants HOLLYWOOD STRIP to entertain readers, Moore says, but there’s also a lesson to take away: “Fame and fortune may be fine and well, but ultimately it’s all about love. I want readers to come away feeling grateful for the love they have in their own lives.”

ABOUT AUTHOR SHAMRON MOORE
Writer Shamron Moore left her home state of Michigan for Los Angeles in 2000 to pursue her showbiz aspirations. She quickly found success in international publications as well as nationally syndicated commercials. After numerous television and film appearances, Shamron left the industry to focus on writing, one of her lifelong passions. HOLLYWOOD STRIP is her debut novel. She lives in Hollywood.

Hollywood Strip
304 page hardcover, $24.99 US / $28.99 CAN; ISBN: 978-0-7653-3230-1
Published by Forge (June, 2013)
Available wherever books are sold
Website: http://shamronmoore.com

ABOUT HOLLYWOOD BOOK PUBLICITY
Los Angeles- based Hollywood Book Publicity (www.hollywoodbookpublicity.com) firm is maintained at The Barrett Company LLC (www.thebarrettco.com), offering authors and publishers  meaningful and affordable book publicity, book marketing and book promotion services to the global print and digital book marketplaces.