One of the funniest and most shamelessly entertaining novels around, wrote "Now Magazine" about Warren Dunford's hilariously off-kilter novel of friendship, artistic ambition, and organized crime. Originally published in Canada to widespread acclaim, Dunford's "Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture" has finally crossed the border. Stirring elements of screenwriting, thriller fiction, ironic self-examination, and urban street smarts into an oddly invigorating postmodern stew, Dunford's novel drops the reader into the lives of ...
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One of the funniest and most shamelessly entertaining novels around, wrote "Now Magazine" about Warren Dunford's hilariously off-kilter novel of friendship, artistic ambition, and organized crime. Originally published in Canada to widespread acclaim, Dunford's "Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture" has finally crossed the border. Stirring elements of screenwriting, thriller fiction, ironic self-examination, and urban street smarts into an oddly invigorating postmodern stew, Dunford's novel drops the reader into the lives of Mitchell Draper, screenwriter/office temp; Ingrid Iversen, painter/coffeehouse manager; and Ramir Martinez, actor/health-food-store clerk as they come face-to-face with their dreams in the last way they expected. Mitchell's sudden and suspicious opportunity to pen the screenplay of a bad "mafia princess" movie for obnoxious film producer Carmen Denver coincides with the opening of a reluctant Ingrid's first exhibit and Ramir's one-man-show. What goes wrong? Lucky for the reader, pretty much everything as mysterious stalkers, threatening phone calls, and old secrets promise to do a lot more than just break up a friendship in what, of all people, actress Anne Bancroft called "One of the best fun reads of all time!" "Comic and unexpected ... a far more eloquent meditation on art and dreck than any 5,000-word essay in Harper's. [Dunford] can look forward to a loyal and growing audience."-"Paragraph: The Canadian Fiction Review" Warren Dunford has been a professional writer for 17 years; his stories have appeared in "Quickies 2, This Magazine," and "The Toronto Star" as well as numerous men's magazines. He is the owner of Warren Dunford Creative Services, providingcopywriting services for a range of corporations. He lives in Toronto, where he is hard at work on the sequel to "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture." Chapter One She's thirty-five minutes late and for the past hour I've been pacing the fifteen feet between my bathroom and the window, repeating like a mantra: "This place is so pathetic, this place is so pathetic." She's going to take one look at my apartment and decide not to hire me. She'll never believe anybody this impoverished could
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