BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., June 3, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- Named a finalist for best comedy novel of the year by Foreword Magazine, The Making of a Mistress (now available through 1stBooks), by author Marcia Baltimore, is the story of Jennifer, a small town girl from Indiana with big dreams and a mighty frying pan. Jennifer is writing a play. She decides Los Angeles is the place to be if she wants to get it produced. Personal frying pan in tow, she "chefs" for the hotel, dresses like a bird for Halloween and befriends a group of Hollywood mistresses. With these women and some rich men, she travels to Cancun and searches for the right movie executive to produce her play.
Meanwhile, back in Fairmount, Ind., the home of "Cool," Jennifer's pregnant sister-in-law, Maryloo, constantly reminds her via email that "no one in our family was ever a mistress." Jen, herself, isn't so easily had. She steams her "veggies" like she steams her guys and dices and spices her scandals to get what she wants.
Written as an exchange of emails -- a genre that Access Television Network credited Baltimore for creating -- the humorous book presents the concept of mistressing by contrasting Hollywood with the values of Indiana.
"I was inspired to write (the book) because of the different attitudes that young girls in various parts of the country had about mistressing," Baltimore says. "Jen is the best of the besters, because she can figure out what she wants and get it without giving in to the guy."
Originally hailing from Scranton, Pa., Baltimore now lives in Beverly Hills, Calif. A former doctoral candidate at USC, she wrote original government research for Sesame Street. She also won a National Education Association award for a multimedia presentation about energy, both potential and kinetic, in which a telephone dial drives two 35mm projectors and an 8mm camera, sound track included!
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