Joyce Armor

Four One-Act Comedies (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Written by a former TV sitcom writer, these four humorous plays cover a range of topics. "A Moving Experience" pits an enthusiastic young college student moving into his first apartment against his overprotective mother. In "Sofa," two college roommates spar over Josh's obsession with cleanliness and keeping his sofa pristine. Chaos ensues when Josh makes out with Brandyann, the girl his roommate Beck met at the beach. A feisty elderly lady, Lily, chains herself to a tree in "The Last Stand," and it's lumberjack Woody Bleck's job to make her go away. It's a mano-a-mano conflict both are enjoying until a novice TV reporter shows up to complicate matters. In "Bank Job," 30-something Peggy and two of her friends from high school are robbing a sperm bank. She loves her husband, Nick, but he doesn't want any more children. Their pediatrician, Ben Slayton, looks a lot like Nick and has sperm at a nearby sperm bank. And Peggy and the Sperm Patrol want those little critters.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Joyce Armor
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780463424933
• Artikelnr.: 52977000

Autorenporträt

I knew from the age of 8 I wanted to be a writer. I was 15 when I wrote a scintillating short story targeted to the confession magazines, my first attempt at getting published. Alas, "Drunkenness Cost Me My Womanhood" was rejected. In the next decade, I fed my need to write by penning long letters (a dying art), Christmas card notes, English essays and term papers.
Armed with a degree in English, I was tending bar in a Las Vegas casino (long story) when I had an epiphany: I would do everything in my power to become a TV writer. Two weeks later I was living in L.A., and a few months after that, I landed a job as a production assistant at MTM, where I learned from the inside how to write and rewrite scripts. In partnership with another P.A., Judie Neer, I started writing spec scripts. Finally one was accepted by "The Tony Randall Show." Over the next several years we were freelance TV writers, with credits including "The Love Boat," "WKRP in Cincinnati" and "Remington Steele." Then we both got married and started birthing babies. My little family left the L.A. smog for a small town in northern California.
Over the next two decades, I wrote a parenting column that won a national award, several books (Letters from a Pregnant Coward, The Dictionary According to Mommy, What You Don't Know About Having Babies), children's poetry (in Kids Pick the Funniest Poems and other anthologies) and plays produced in community theaters.
I also got divorced and moved my two sons across the country to Myrtle Beach, SC. There I wrote hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles and columns and co-owned a regional business/lifestyle magazine.
Several years ago I moved back to Ohio from whence I began, where I enjoying hanging out with family and old friends, including the same group I ate lunch with in the cafeteria in 7th grade. Since returning to my roots, I've read more than 1,000 romance novels and novellas. Many I loved, some I felt "enh" after reading and others I wanted to reach into the book and hit at least one of the protagonists with a brick.
That's when I decided to write my own romance novels and novellas, the kind I wanted to read, with smart, funny protagonists; and interesting (to me, anyway), not overly complicated plots with conflicts not so contrived they make me want to gnash my teeth. You might disagree, and all I have to say about that is different strokes for different folks. My youngest son once told me he absolutely hated Eng...