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MOVIE STAR BY LIZZIE PEPPER

Hilary Liftin

A juicy novel of celebrity love gone wrong, pulled from the pages of today’s gossip magazines.

Actress Lizzie Pepper was America’s Girl Next Door and her marriage to Hollywood mega-star Rob Mars was tabloid gold—a whirlwind romance and an elaborate celebrity-studded wedding landed them on the cover of every celebrity weekly. But fame, beauty, and wealth weren’t enough to keep their marriage together. Hollywood’s “It” couple are over—and now Lizzie is going to tell her side of the story.

Celebrity ghostwriter Hilary Liftin chronicles the tabloids’ favorite marriage as Lizzie Pepper realizes that, when the curtain falls, her romance isn’t what she and everyone else thought. From her lonely holidays in sumptuous villas to her husband’s deep commitment to a disconcertingly repressive mind-body group, Lizzie reveals a side of fame that her fans never get to see in a story that will have every reader guessing the real-life inspirations for its players. Full of twists and turns, Movie Star by Lizzie Pepper is a breathless journey to the heights of Hollywood power and royalty and a life in the spotlight that is nearly impossible to escape.

Hilary Liftin has ghostwritten and co-written numerous New York Times bestselling memoirs, and is the coauthor of Candy & Me and Dear Exile. She lives in Los Angeles.

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Book Published 2015-07-21 by Viking
Book Published 2015-07-21 by Viking

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...It’s in these moments where the reader can really see the characters that Liftin’s novel transcends its conceit and offers us not just the juicy details of lifestyles of the rich and famous, but compassion for their often strange and pressured world and an understanding of their humanness and our own.... Liftin’s gift, the thread throughout her writing career, is illuminating the truth of people’s lives. I look forward to seeing where she shines her light next. Read more...

... should snap up this juicy faux tell-all about the price of fame.

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Even with Instagram and Twitter buttons at their fingertips, many celebrities are still choosing to write a good old-fashioned memoir. It’s the “write” part that can prove troublesome, and that’s where people like Hilary Liftin come in.... But what about a book with her name on it that seems to draw from the lives of some of Hollywood’s most prominent stars? ...“I was looking at People magazine one day and watching another celebrity marriage implode,” she said, “and I thought: ‘You know what, I don’t need to wait for this. I can just write my dream celebrity.’ And that’s what I did: sort of took all the most dramatic elements and wrote the celebrity memoir of my fantasies.”... Read more...

When we worked together, Lizzie Pepper was always the good girl, the confidante who kept all our secrets. It's empowering to watch her now smash Hollywood rules by revealing the truth of her marriage that the tabloids never got, in her witty, juicy, and addictive story.

Like the city and the industry in which it’s set, “Movie Star by Lizzie Pepper’’ is at its best when it dips its toe into serious social satire, examining instead of perpetuating stereotypes about Hollywood and the real live humans who live and make our favorite and least favorite movies and TV shows there. Read more...

A hilarious, tabloid-trashing gotcha novel.

This fairy tale romance turned nightmare of marital imprisonment has all the hallmarks of a heart-pounding, sprinkled-with-wit, Hollywood thriller. But what's more impressive—and indeed disturbing—is that is also feels wholly plausible. Almost as if it had actually happened to a certain someone.

MOVIE STAR BY LIZZIE PEPPER is included in Entertainment Weekly's Summer Reads Preview: "...In this star-sudded roman à clef, Pepper tells her side of the story.

Q&A with Hilary Liftin - Ghostwriter Hilary Liftin dishes on her first novel, 'Movie Star by Lizzie Pepper' Read more...

With its fast pace and combination of mystery with juicy celeb details, it’s a surefire hit. Fans of the showbiz tales of Sophie Kinsella, Lauren Weisberger, and Rachel Pine will love this book. The beach read of the summer, it will keep you up long after the sun has gone down. Read more...

"... delicious beach read by celebrity ghostwriter." Read more...

The novel offers a surprisingly poignant look at making yourself the hero of your own story, in a very anti-Cinderella way. Readers will enjoy speculating about the real-life A-list celebrity inspirations, which adds to the already-juicy entertainment of Lizzie’s story. Read more...

[An] irresistable debut . . . With its sympathetic narrator, suspenseful plot pivots, snappy pace, and dishy details about Hollywood's inner workings, Liftin's compelling, highly readable novel is likely to engage even readers who remain blissfully unaware of the tabloid characters who may or may not have inspired it. Dishy Hollywood fiction at its finest. Read more...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with author and celebrity ghostwriter Hilary Liftin about her new novel, Movie Star by Lizzie Pepper. Liftin describes the process of pulling fiction from the tabloids. Read more...

Hilary Liftin’s MOVIE STAR BY LIZZIE PEPPER is shaping up to be one of the biggest books of the summer! It was included in USA Today’s “25 hot books for summer” AND was also on Vogue’s “Summer’s Best Beach Reads” roundup!