Imagine if Benjamin Franklin invented the TV newscast 250 years ago, and hired the Monty Python troupe to pull it off. This award-winning comic novel puts a historical twist on all the foibles of today's TV news operations in what Kirkus Reviews calls "A fine historical novel and a witty, effervescent satire of 18th-century London trash journalism."

A fine historical novel and a witty, effervescent satire of media saturation. — Kirkus ReviewsFollowing up his hit debut novel Live At Five, Larry Brill takes a step back—back in time that is—to imagine what today's TV news would have looked like if it had been invented back in the days of Charles Dickens. The result is a hilarious romp through jolly old England, following the misadventures of a common street performer, a patterer named Leeds Merriweather. Lightning strikes, in the...

Hunter Riley has been working his way down the ladder of success in TV News until he hits rock bottom in "podunk" Bakersfield, California. In a hilarious effort to salvage his career and resurrect his tiny station from the ratings graveyard, he hires a dancer from the local strip club to anchor the news and manufacures a crisis at an old folks home. When the crisis boils over to become a national story, Hunter is forced to choose ethics where perception is reality, and facts just get in th...

Dispensing advice on how to live a happy life is a 12 billion dollar chunk of the self-help and inspiration industry. Imagine all the money we could have saved if only we had paid attention to the pearls of wisdom that came from our favorite TV characters when we were growing up. This first book in our 10 Lessons series uses quotes from primetime TV shows as inspiration to make you giggle, laugh out loud, or just scratch your head and wonder about the author's sanity. But you also might fi...

Following up on the smash hit tongue-in-cheek book of advice 10 Lessons I Learned from Gilligan, Mr. Ed and Primetime TV, Larry Brill offers up another dose of humor on life advice from the weirdest places.This time he vaccums real pearls on how to be more satisfied and less stressed from lyrics of songs from the 60s and 70s.Critics have raved. "Great advice to make one stop and think for a moment while providing laughs wrapped in a wave of nostalgia.""A great, shor...

Déjà vu All Over Again is a comic story of redemption and romance. Kirkus Reviews calls it "An observant comedy with a dose of heart." Nate Evans, a burned out Hollywood screenwriter, obsessed with his youth, writes a script for himself and uses it as a plot to recreate his high school days. When he gets the chance to reconnect with Julie, the girl he dumped on the eve of the prom, he moves back home with mom and dad and plots to win her back from the bunker of his old bedroom, writing a s...

"A fun, satisfying read." — BlueInk Reviews"An observant comedy with a dose of heart." — Kirkus Reviews"This is the perfect novel for readers interested in a humorous tale, and for anyone who has ever wondered "what if things would have worked out differently with the one who got away?" — Portland Book Reviews.The story about a washed-up Hollywood screenwriter who believes life would have ...

Déjà vu All Over Again is a comic story of redemption and romance. Kirkus Reviews calls it "An observant comedy with a dose of heart." Nate Evans, a burned out Hollywood screenwriter, obsessed with his youth, writes a script for himself and uses it as a plot to recreate his high school days. When he gets the chance to reconnect with Julie, the girl he dumped on the eve of the prom, he moves back home with mom and dad and plots to win her back from the bunker of his old bedroom, writing a s...

A hilarious account of how a conservative newspaperman and a prostitute combine their unique talents to report on scandals and government graft in 1773 Boston to bring down the British on the eve of the American Revolution. But when they fall in love, can they keep from strangling each other over their political differences before the shooting starts?

A hilarious satire of today's media wars set in 1773 Boston. A conservative newspaper printer and a feisty American prostitute use their unique skills to uncover government corruption and scandals in colonial Massachusetts in hopes of igniting an American Revolution.

GRAND PRIZE 2019 Best Book, Chanticleer International Book Awards"A meticulously researched historical account presented in the form of a thrilling political drama." ~KIRKUS REVIEWS“Amazing history—I felt like I was there.” —Lisa Wingate, bestselling author of Before We Were YoursTheodora: actress, prostitute, mistress. And Byzantine Empress of the civilized world.S...

Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover is the most idle and avaricious hero in all of crime fiction. Why should he even be bothered to solve the case?For its own very good reasons, Scotland Yard sends Dover off to remote Creedshire to investigate the disappearance of a young housemaid, Juliet Rugg.Though there's every cause to assume that she has been murdered – she gave her favours freely and may even have stooped to a bit of blackmail – no body is to be ...