Eyes Like Stars, by Lisa Mantchev–coming to a theatre near you on Monday!
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Lisa’s web site is here: http://lisamantchev.com/main.php
Her blog is here: http://lisamantchev.com/blog.php
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Here’s a book blurb:
All her world’s a stage.
Bertie Shakespeare Smith is not an actress, yet she lives in a theater.
She’s not an orphan, but she has no parents.
She knows every part, but she has no lines of her own.
That is, until now.
Enter Stage Right
NATE. Dashing pirate. Will do anything to protect Bertie.
COBWEB, MOTH, MUSTARD SEED, and PEASEBLOSSOM. Four tiny and incredibly annoying fairies. BERTIE’S sidekicks.
ARIEL. Seductive air spirit and Bertie’s weakness. The symbol of impending doom.
BERTIE. Our heroine.
Welcome to the Théâtre Illuminata, where the actors of every play ever written can be found behind the curtain. They were born to play their parts, and are bound to the Théâtre by The Book—an ancient and magical tome of scripts. Bertie is not one of them, but they are her family—and she is about to lose them all and the only home she has ever known.
Lisa Mantchev has written a debut novel that is dramatic, romantic, and witty, with an irresistible and irreverent cast of characters who are sure to enchant the audience.
Open Curtain
And here’s an author bio:
Lisa Mantchev grew up in the small Northern California town of Ukiah. She can pinpoint her first forays into fiction to the short stories she thumped out on an ancient typewriter. Playwriting came a few years later with an adaptation of Maeterlinck’s The Blue Bird for May Day Festival in the fourth grade.
Starting at the age of seven, she appeared in community theater productions of South Pacific, Peter Pan, The Nutcracker, Beauty and the Beast and Magic Theater. In high school, she appeared in productions of Grease and Eleemosynary before writing, directing and producing a children’s play for the Ukiah Player’s Theater. She then received two scholarships to study drama at the University of California, Irvine. Her senior year at UCI, she wrote Seeking Therapy, which was produced through the playwright’s class. Lisa also won the Chancellor’s Award For Undergraduate Research in Drama her senior year while studying in the Campuswide Honors Program.
After graduation, Lisa taught English at the Lycée Internationale de Los Angeles and created their Drama After School Program. In between report cards and drafting scripts for Winter and Spring productions, she returned to writing fiction. Her first professional short fiction sale was in 2002, and her debut trilogy sold in 2007.
She makes her home on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state with her husband Angel, her daughter Amélie and four hairy miscreant dogs. When not scribbling, she can be found on the beach, up a tree, making jam or repairing things with her trusty glue gun
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