On an art college trip, I turned on the hotel TV - and there it was. Amanda and Sam’s wedding on Another World. Larger-than-life characters, wanna-live settings, all playing out with the raw intimacy of a stage play. I was hooked.
Maybe you raced home from school to catch Guiding Light - or stayed home when you definitely shouldn’t to watch Sunset Beach.
Romance, tangled family trees, mystery - daytime drama has always thrived on excess. But my novel? It plays with the boundaries, the tension, the desire that was always just out of reach. It’s not just a soap opera - it’s what happens when the heat rises between the lines.
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THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS
Thad Luckinbill as J.T. Hellstrom
Mitzi Kapture-Donahue as Anita Hodges
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6:45 PM to 9:30 PM Ye Olde Watling, 29 Watling St London EC4M 9BR
I will be attending with other writers at The London Writers' Café.
6:45 PM to 9:30 PM Ye Olde Watling, 29 Watling St London EC4M 9BR