The life of an actress in LA isn't all glamour, money, and bedding rock stars. Sometimes it's more about humiliation, red wine hangovers, and the bad decisions they fuel. Ruby Fitzgerald has barely worked in years, not that anyone remembers her for anything but her short stint on a long-canceled but iconic TV show. But that was back when her career prospects seemed on the upswing -- longer ago than Ruby cares to admit -- and awkward sex with regrettable partners is doing nothing to take the edge off. Everything once functional in her house is going on strike, but the unemployment checks barely cover the mortgage, and a self-respecting girl needs to be able to pay her bar tab -- so repairs are on hold. One more bubble bath and a few more cocktails. A gal can always get responsible tomorrow.
With everything mounting against her, a cranky and increasingly despairing Ruby will have to find out if her life's larger indignities are the result of bad luck, or a chronically bad attitude. What follows is a walking tour of the hilarious depths you can sink to if you stop exercising your best judgment.
BATHING & THE SINGLE GIRL is the smutty, mercilessly irreverent and laugh-out-loud funny debut novel by actress Christine Elise McCarthy. Based on her one-woman short film of the same name, it’s the kind of novel Jonathan Ames might write if he’d dropped out of college and had been working as an actress in Hollywood for the last 20 years.
Bathing & the Single Girl, inspired by the short film, is her debut novel.
For inquiries regarding publishing and subsidiary rights to the novel, Bathing & the Single Girl, please contact Lauren Abramo of Dystel & Goderich Literary Management at labramo@dystel.com.
With everything mounting against her, a cranky and increasingly despairing Ruby will have to find out if her life's larger indignities are the result of bad luck, or a chronically bad attitude. What follows is a walking tour of the hilarious depths you can sink to if you stop exercising your best judgment.
BATHING & THE SINGLE GIRL is the smutty, mercilessly irreverent and laugh-out-loud funny debut novel by actress Christine Elise McCarthy. Based on her one-woman short film of the same name, it’s the kind of novel Jonathan Ames might write if he’d dropped out of college and had been working as an actress in Hollywood for the last 20 years.
Bathing & the Single Girl, inspired by the short film, is her debut novel.
For inquiries regarding publishing and subsidiary rights to the novel, Bathing & the Single Girl, please contact Lauren Abramo of Dystel & Goderich Literary Management at labramo@dystel.com.
Bathing & the Single Girl (the short film) is a ten minute comedy about the horrors of dating (and bathing with) younger men. It began the festival circuit in December 2010 and by 2013 had screened at over 100 film festivals & won twenty awards.
Written, directed by & starring Christine Elise (McCarthy), it was the inspiration for her novel of the same name.
Click HERE to see the film.
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Written, directed by & starring Christine Elise (McCarthy), it was the inspiration for her novel of the same name.
Click HERE to see the film.
Click HERE to buy the film.
