This rapid-fire and raw comedy follows Cassandra Crowe who is duped into becoming the new mobile Street Walker for the tanking celebrity gossip rag EF*You TV Live! Show (Entertainment for You). The staff includes showrunner Dylan, suffering from social anxiety, Star Wars villain-loving network President, J.D. and eccentric star,
Ramona Tremmel, whose claws are firmly embedded in her anchor chair. Ramona quickly becomes Cassandra’s nemesis, and the ribald rivalry escalates into a star-studded Battle Royale at the coveted Facial Awards.
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ritwer Statement:
The first version of A Single Dead was something I poured my heart into.
It came from a desire to tell the story of a father who died on his child’s birthday but kept coming home every year with a cake—pretending he was still alive even as his body decayed.
I wanted to explore love after death, children pretending not to fear the father they already knew was gone, and the idea of letting go.
But…
That warm, sentimental ghost story got rejected by four festivals in a row.
So I tore it apart, stripped it down, and scraped it until the version that reflects who I really am—my darker, more cynical side—finally surfaced.
And that’s the version of A Single Dead you’re reading now:
a story rebuilt out of frustration, irony, and a refusal to play nice anymore.
Biography
David Case attended The Juilliard School for drama after first getting a degree for the University of Illinois. After Juilliard he found himself home watching the kids as his wife worked and he started writing… he’s written many specs and manuscripts and has one published book under the name Jax Spenser. He’s finally taking screenwriting classes at the UCLA Extension program and is three classes away from getting his certificate in Comprehensive Screenwriting. Interesting fact, he also holds a patent for a running aid called, KlickSpeed from his time coaching track and field.
Steven dos Santos is author of THE TORCH KEEPER novels, a Young Adult Post-Apocalyptic series featuring LGBTQ+ characters. Book One, THE CULLING, was named an American Library Association 2014 Rainbow List Top Ten Selection. Steven’s other series, DAGGER: THE DUST OPS, is a Young Adult Paranormal Espionage Adventure, also featuring LGBTQ+ characters. His newest novel, MALICIA is available for Pre-Order and will be published by Page Street Kids. Steven graduated from Florida International University with a B.S. Degree from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications Television Broadcasting program and also has an MFA in Writing from Spalding University/Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing. He is an English Professor at Broward College and a passionate advocate of LGBTQ+ rights.
To learn more about Steven, visit his website: www.stevendossantos.com