RED CARPET RIVALS Wins Beverly Hills Book Award

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Dec. 16, 2018 - PRLog -- Bobbi Kornblit, author of Red Carpet Rivals, received national recognition from the 7th Annual Beverly Hills Book Awards®! The Best Novel pick captured the larger-than-life world of the motion picture industry.

With the movie Awards Season in full swing, Red Carpet Rivals takes readers backstage and inside the offices of film studios.The action swirls around the glamour and chaos of the most celebrated ceremony, the fictitious Movie Constellation Awards.

Hollywood is in the news, and Red Carpet Rivals unmasks a controversial topic: sexual misconduct in the workplace. The fast-paced work of fiction gives an inside look at how movies are made and marketed. It is considered the #Me Too novel about the movie industry.

A divorced superstar couple, a top movie publicist, and a female marketing executive jockey for position on Hollywood's rocky road to success. Secrets are revealed about their intriguing relationships and blind ambition. The timeframe of the funny and savvy novel covers the 1980s to the present.

The novel is receiving glowing reviews:

"An absolutely delightful read. Bobbi Kornblit digs into her years as a Hollywood insider and delivers a very funny, irreverent, and mischievously shocking tale of what really goes on behind the scenes in the film industry. Her characters jump off the page and into your head and heart." — Steve Coulter, Actor/Writer, House of Cards & The Walking Dead

"Red Carpet Rivals is to the movies what The Devil Wears Prada is to fashion." — Mickey Goodman, Author/Journalist

"Bobbi Kornblit gives us an insider view into the glamorous lives of movie studio moguls and actors in her new Red Carpet Rivals. . . . Move over, Jackie Collins!" — Kellie Coates Gilbert, Author of the engaging and popular Sun Valley Series

Kornblit walked down numerous red carpets in Hollywood with her late husband, a leading movie studio executive and a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences®.

Intriguing relationships are foremost in the book the following themes: movie marketing, international film festivals, women's empowerment, and the history of Hollywood, explored with unexpected twists and turns.

Kornblit stated, "Sometimes art imitates life . . . or life imitates art. While the characters and plot lines sprang from my imagination, I created a story with dialogue and relationships that gives the inside scoop about how Hollywood behaves and misbehaves."

The book also won Best Novel for the NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement Award.

Established in 2013, the Beverly Hills Book Awards® competition is judged by experts from all aspects of the book industry, including publishers, writers, editors, book designers and professional copywriters. Contest winners and finalists are determined based on "overall excellence of presentation – a synergy of form and content" over a wide range of genres.

"We are proud to announce the winners and finalists whose books truly embody the excellence that this award was created to celebrate, and we salute you all for your fine work" — Ellen Reid, Founder BHBA

Bobbi Kornblit's debut novel, Shelter from the Texas Heat, won the NABE Best Book Women's Fiction and the Indie Excellence Multicultural Fiction Award. It was also selected by the American Library Association as one of the Top 50 Books with JFK.

Kornblit attended UCLA and earned a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. She holds a Master of Arts in Professional Writing degree from Kennesaw State University. She teaches writing workshops at universities and corporations in Atlanta, where she currently resides.

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