GAYLIN COMES HOME WITH MURDER AND CELEBRITIES IN TOW.Byline: MICHELLE MICHELLE Mid-Infrared Echelle Spectrograph J. MILLS >LA.COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. Alison Gaylin, author of the mystery thriller "Trashed trashed adj. Slang Drunk or intoxicated. Our Living Language Expressions for intoxication are among those that best showcase the creativity of slang. ," proves not only can you go home again, but you can return a success. She grew up in Arcadia and attended schools in Pasadena. On Wednesday she signs and reads from her book at Vroman's Bookstore, where growing up she read everything from Judy Blume Judy Blume (born February 12, 1938) is a popular American author. She has written many novels for children and young adults. She was born and raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey.[1] Blume received a B.S. degree in Education in 1961 from New York University (NYU). to Philip Roth. Gaylin says "Trashed" involves a tabloid reporter who covers a grisly series of celebrity murders in Hollywood. Along the way, the reporter winds up solving the crime and also becomes a target herself. Gaylin attended Northwestern University in Chicago and Columbia University in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . She worked in the Pasadena Playhouse box office (which inspired one of her characters) and was a freelance theater and entertainment reviewer for the Pasadena Star-News. She has also worked for Los Angeles Reader, the Star, Theater Crafts magazine, Soap Opera Digest Soap Opera Digest is a magazine chronicling the stories airing on American soap operas and the off-screen lives of the actors appearing on them. The magazine first debuted in November 1975, with John Aniston, Ron Tomme, Audrey Peters, Birgitta Tolksdorf, Jerry Lacy and Tudi and First for Women. Gaylin, who also works as a freelance writer for In Touch Weekly, lives in Woodstock, N.Y., with her filmmaker husband, Mike Gaylin, and daughter, Marissa. She enjoys hiking, walking, knitting, reading, hanging out with her daughter and watching really bad reality television shows. Do you give your readers a lot of clues to solve the mystery? Hopefully you don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. who the actual murderer is until the end. I don't want it to come out of the blue -- there are some clues in there, but hopefully they're hidden well enough so it's a surprise. How much of you is in the lead character, Simone Glass? She's definitely younger than I am, but she's had a similar job experience to me. She actually gets the job as a reporter for a sleazy tabloid after she went to graduate school for journalism, and I was a reporter for a sleazy tabloid before I went to graduate school for journalism. I think she is a better reporter than I ever was. My characters tend to have a similar outlook on life that I do and a similar sense of humor Noun 1. sense of humor - the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor" sense of humour, humor, humour and they react the way I wish I would in certain situations. Why is America obsessed ob·sess v. ob·sessed, ob·sess·ing, ob·sess·es v.tr. To preoccupy the mind of excessively. v.intr. with tabloids and celebrity? We all love gossip because it's a good escape. It's interesting because in the old days, in the '40s and '50s, during the star system in Hollywood, people looked at celebrities like gods. There was never a picture of any of them without it being air brushed and perfect and beautiful. Now it's sort of the opposite, with the whole idea that these really rich and famous people are just like us. There's a whole train-wreck quality of watching celebrities go about their lives; it has a voyeuristic appeal. Who is your favorite "hot" tabloid subject today? In terms of stuff that's the most interesting to read about and the most interesting to write, either Britney (Spears) or Lindsay (Lohan) would be the most interesting right now. How do you write? I have an office in my house and I go into the office for In Touch three days a week, so the rest of the time I'm home. I do have a 6-year-old daughter, so I tend to write while she's at school or after she goes to bed. I try to tailor my writing schedule around her schedule, although my husband is really, really helpful. When I'm on super duper dupe n. 1. An easily deceived person. 2. A person who functions as the tool of another person or power. tr.v. duped, dup·ing, dupes To deceive (an unwary person). See Synonyms at deceive. deadline, it's basically him being single dad while I'm locked in my office going insane. How does "Trashed" compare with your other books -- "Hide Your Eyes" and "You Kill Me"? It's different because my other two books are a book and a sequel. They take place in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and have the same characters in them. The main character, Samantha Leiffer, is a preschool teacher and an off-Broadway box-office worker. She is a little more passive than Simone Glass, who is in "Trashed," whereas Simone will want to get to the bottom of things a bit more. Samantha steps into horrible situations; she does not have the best luck. Can you tell us about your next book? It takes place in New York City and a small town in Mexico and it involves soap stars and grisly ritualistic rit·u·al·is·tic adj. 1. Relating to ritual or ritualism. 2. Advocating or practicing ritual. rit murder. Soap stars and grisly ritualistic murder, what more could you want? Why are you appearing at Vroman's in Pasadena? I'm coming home and Vroman's was always my favorite book store, I always went there as a kid. Whenever school let out ... I would get lost in the books over there. michelle.mills@sgvn.com ALISON GAYLIN SIGNING "TRASHED" >Where: Vroman's Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. (626) 449-5320. >When: 7 p.m. Wednesday. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: no caption (Alison Gaylon) |
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