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Praise for the novels of Laura Caldwell

The Year of Living Famously

Sharply observed, fresh and compelling, The Year of Living Famously is a captivating look into the cult of celebrity.

Leslie Stella, author of The Easy Hour and Fat Bald Jeff

A stylish, sassy novel that shows the dark side that haunts the world of glamour and glitz. Laura Caldwell paints a sensitive picture of two ordinary lives thrown into turmoil by the pressures of fame.

USA TODAY bestselling author Carole Matthews

Hollywood power players, paparazzi and overzealous fansLaura Caldwell takes readers inside the precarious world of celebrity with a captivating story about the cost of following your dreams and the high price of fame.

Jennifer OConnell, author of Bachelorette #1

A Clean Slate

Told with great energy and charm, A Clean Slate is for anyone who has ever fantasized about starting overin other words, this book is for everyone!

Jill A. Davis, author of Girls Poker Night

Weightier than the usual fare, Caldwells winning second novel puts an appealing heroine in a tough situation and relays her struggles with empathy.

Booklist (starred review)

A Clean Slate is Laura Caldwells page-turner about a woman with a chance to reinvent herself, something most of us have imagined from time to time.

Chicago Tribune

A Clean Slate told with a little mystery, a little humor, and more than a few twists and surprises.

News-Dispatch

Burning the Map

This debut novel won us over with its exotic locales (Rome and Greece); strong portrayal of the bonds between girlfriends; cast of sexy foreign guys; and, most of all, its touching story of a young woman at a crossroads in her life.

Barnes & Noble.com
(Selected as one of The Best of 2002)

Caldwells debut is a fun, snappy read.

Booklist

The author produces excellent settings and characters. It is easy to identify with her protagonist, Casey. We learn that maybe the rat race isnt all its cracked up to be. This is a very thought provoking book.

Heartland Reviews

Laura Caldwell
The Year of Living Famously

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thank you, thank you, thank you to my wonderful editor, Margaret ONeill Marbury, my fantastic agent, Maureen Walters, and everyone at Red Dress Ink (especially Tania Charzewski, Laura Morris, Craig Swinwood, Donna Hayes, Isabel Swift, Margie Miller, Tara Kelly, Sarah Rundle, Don Lucey, Belinda Hobbs, Jessica Regante, Liba Berry and Carolyn Flear).

Thanks also to Kelly Harden, Ginger Heyman, Trisha Woodson, Beth Kaveny, Suzanne Burchill, Pam Carroll, Jim Lupo, Hilarie Pozesky, Clare Toohey, Mary Jennings Dean, Jane Hamill, Kris Verdeck, Ted MacNabola, Joan Posch, J. Erik Seastrand, Patrick Meade and Alisa Spiegel.

Once again, most importantly, thanks and my heart to Jason Billups.

LAURA CALDWELL

graduated from University of Iowa, before getting her law degree from Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Laura was a trial lawyer for many years, specializing in medical negligence defense and entertainment law. She is widely published in the legal field, as well as in numerous mainstream publications.

Laura is a writer and contributing editor at Lake Magazine, and an adjunct professor of legal writing at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Please visit her online at www.lauracaldwell.com.

I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

Lord Byron

Contents
Part One
chapter 1

U ntil that night in Vegas, I was the girl in back of the nightclub line, the girl who always had to wait for a cab. I was ordinary. I was just like anyone else.

I was with my friend Bobby that night, and we were staying at Mandalay Bay, where Bobbys talent agency had unknowingly sprung for a two-bedroom suite. Bobbys a film agent, and he was there to watch one of his clients in some high-end cabaret show. Bobby and I met when we were in grad school in Manhattan (me at FIT for fashion design, he at NYU for creative writing). Although he lived in L. A. now, and we hadnt seen each other in a year, we were fabulous purveyors of the witty voice mail and the novel-length e-mail, so we still knew all about each other; we felt as connected as we had back then.

We hit the Strip with a vengeance that Friday night, throwing ourselves headlong into the glitter and the lights, pretending we werent in our early thirties, that the vodka martinis wouldnt make our heads scream the next morning. We roared with laughter at the stories we knew by heart and updated each other with new ones, our exaggerations and outlandish details showing how much wed learned about creativity in grad school.

At midnight, we were fairly stumbling through the lobby of the Bellagio, past the jangling slot machines and the occasional shouts of triumph from the craps tables, when Bobby stopped and peered through the crowd, his dark eyes narrowing.

Is it Trent? I said, referring to Bobbys friend we were supposed to meet. The guys full name was Trent Tanning, which sounded made up and Hollywood. I wondered whether I would like him at all.

Bobby shook his head, and his tight, black curly hair gleamed under the lights.

A pack of about ten people were moving through the tables and slots. Muscle-bound guys flanked the group, swiveling their heads menacingly, like theyd pummel you if you got too close. In the center was a woman who looked familiartall and model-thin with hair the color of oatmeal. The others gravitated toward her, glancing at her constantly, leaning in to whisper in her ear.

When they were about ten feet away, they turned and began walking in a different direction.

Lauren! Bobby yelled, and the entire entourage froze like deer that sense a rifle is near.

The big guys glared in Bobbys direction and held out their arms as if to shield the group. The woman looked vaguely in Bobbys direction, but then her studied expression shifted into a luminous smile.

Bobby Minter! she called. What are you doing here?

She wafted through her group, past the big men who appeared annoyed at the break in formation. She was wearing a vintage taupe dress with a cowl-neck.

By this time I had figured out that she was Lauren Stapleton, the actress. Id seen a few of her filmsromantic comedies, the type people see when they need one hundred and twenty minutes of escapism. Lauren played the geeky but gorgeous girl, the one you wanted the hero to fall for, which he certainly would in the last few scenes, leaving the audience feeling all was right with the world, that it was okay, in your own life, to be divorced, overweight and in debt.

Bobby hugged her. Im mixing business with a little too much pleasure. Lauren, this is my friend, Kyra Felis.

She gave me the wide, toothy grin Id seen on-screen. She towered over me in her blond greatness, making me feel tiny and dark. Of course, I am tiny and darkabout five-one with wide brown eyes and black-brown, shoulder-length hair. None of this has ever been a problem before, but beside Lauren it all felt inadequate.

Youre in the business? she asked me. Her voice was pleasant but bored, as if to say, Isnt it all such a pain in the ass?

Oh, God no, I said.

Something snapped shut in her face, and she turned to Bobby. Soon, they were engaged in a serious discussion about whether a producer they knew had a heroin addiction or whether it was just cocaine. Bobby always got very dishy when he spoke to movie people, a trait that amused me, since Bobbys real goal in life was to write quiet, literary novels.

As they talked, I noticed one of the men from their group, a tousle-haired brunette in a suede jacket, standing at a nearby blackjack table. He was making one of the normally stoic dealers bite his lip with laughter.

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