LOS ANGELES - Dec. 24, 2017 - s4story -- Beat the stress of last minute holiday shopping by purchasing on Kindle with a click of your mouse. Red Carpet Rivals, the new novel by Bobbi Kornblit, can be delivered instantly or a print book can arrive as a New Year's weekend treat.

Award-winning author Bobbi Kornblit penned an up-close and personal novel about Hollywood, Red Carpet Rivals. The work of fiction echoes a controversial topic is at the forefront of issues in the workplace: sexual harassment—and in time for Awards Season.

The action in Red Carpet Rivals swirls around the glamour and chaos of the most celebrated movie awards ceremony. An estranged superstar couple, a top movie publicist, and a female marketing executive jockey for position on Hollywood's rocky road to success. Secrets are revealed about their intriguing relationships, health, harassment, and blind ambition. A funny, savvy, and sexy novel, Red Carpet Rivals gives the inside scoop about Hollywood awards and movie marketing from the 1980s to the present.

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The chapters feature each of the four main characters:

   • Preston "Coop" Cooper and Sirena Jackson, an estranged superstar couple, are nominated for their roles in the steamy movie based on a novel by Jack London.

   • Francine Darten, a leading publicist for star clients, wants to handle Coop in public and in private.

   • Charlie Wallach, an ambitious female marketing executive, hopes to shatter the management glass ceiling at Silverlake Pictures.

Kornblit stated, "I strived to capture the exciting and challenging world of the motion picture industry in this fast-paced work of fiction. I'm thrilled that a blurb from bestselling author of the Sun Valley Series Kellie Coates Gilbert concludes with, 'Move over, Jackie Collins!'"

Another review stated, "Red Carpet Rivals is to the movies what The Devil Wears Prada is to fashion."—Mickey Goodman, Author/Journalist

Intriguing relationships are foremost, and readers will also respond to the following themes:

1. Women's empowerment

2. Anti-Semitism against Jews in Hollywood

3. LGBT plot lines

4. Sexual harassment in the workplace

(Some of these themes are plot twists--and thus, surprises.)

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5. Inner-workings of movie studios

6. Awards ceremonies

7. Movie marketing

8. International film festivals

9. Great love affairs

10. History of Hollywood--the Star System

Kornblit stated, "Sometimes art imitates life . . . or life imitates art. While the characters and plot are from my imagination, I created a story that rings true. Yes, people in Hollywood really talk and behave like my characters!"

Kornblit walked down numerous red carpets in Hollywood with her husband, a leading studio executive.

Bobbi Kornblit's debut novel, Shelter from the Texas Heat, won the NABE Best Book Women's Fiction Award, the Indie Excellence Multicultural Fiction Award, and the Georgia Author of the Year First Fiction Finalist. It was also selected by the American Library Association as one of the Top 50 Books with JFK. Kornblit is a former journalist and holds a Master of Arts in Professional Writing degree from Kennesaw State University. A frequent speaker at literary festivals and book clubs, she instructs writing at universities and corporations in Atlanta, where she currently resides.

For more information, please visit:

http://www.RedCarpetRivals.com

ISBN: 978-0-692-92038-1

BAK LOT Press

Softback

Discussion Questions Included

Red Carpet Rivals is available in Print and E-book.