A New Beginning (#4 of California Dreaming) A Los Angeles Series
A New Beginning (#4 of California Dreaming) A Los Angeles Series

Author: Andrew J. Smith

Publisher: Youcanprint

Published: 2018-10-01

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 8827849297

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James Alliston's life has changed completely since his wife Karen left him, with a divorce behind him and a three-year-old girl to grow up, under the advice of his best friend and literary agent, Andy Jackson, decides to move in Los Angeles, the city where he grew up, to reappropriate his life and to try to rediscover his literary creativity, lost for years now. His arrival in the city will be for him a beginning and a chance to redeem himself from his past that still torments him. Stacy, a sweet and gentle woman with a sunny smile, with whom she had a serious history before getting to know Karen, his current ex-wife, will help him step by step to rebuild his self-esteem lost in these years, following his marriage bankruptcy. James, will be forced to keep a secret to the woman that concerns Allison, a young and fresh sixteen year old, arrogant and self-confident at the same time, which could compromise the trust and feelings that were born recently between James and his old flame, Stacy . Meanwhile, his agent, in full marriage crisis with his wife, will be entangled in comical sexual trials that will see him as a protagonist. Meanwhile, Glenn, Stacy's ex-husband will make a big announcement that will leave everyone speechless, making his engagement with Penelope official, and asking her to marry him. James, will try slowly to leave behind the past and just when he decide to do so, a call from Karen will plunge back into distant memories that he believed he had forgotten. In the fourth chapter of California Dreaming, a series created by the award-winning international writer Andrew J. Smith and produced by California Dreaming Production, we’ll see James Alliston, the famous and sexy novelist in various scenes of sensual and funny, but at the same time must have the courage to make difficult decisions or compromise the future of his daughter, Elizabeth. This will be a "New Beginning" for the fun and entertaining writer, James Alliston.

Arrival in Los Angeles (#1 of California Dreaming): A Los Angeles Series
Arrival in Los Angeles (#1 of California Dreaming): A Los Angeles Series

Author: Andrew J. Smith

Publisher: Youcanprint

Published: 2018-08-22

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 8827844376

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James Alliston, a famous New York writer, is struggling with his arrival in Los Angeles. After being left by his wife, and with a small child, he will try to rebuild a new life in the city where he grew up, under the advice of his best friend and literary agent, Andy Jackson. Despite being more than willing to put his head in order once and for all, he immediately finds himself in unseemly scenarios that make him lose some of his credibility and seriousness as a writer. His arrival in Los Angeles will be impetuous and although he does not want to be immediately recognized by the literary and film scene, his fame, and that of his agent, precede them, but not in a positive way. In the meantime, his agent will have to deal with his small flaws of lust, all under the watchful eyes of his wife. Old acquaintances will present themselves and he will have to deal with them, while, struggling with a real contract for his new novel, he will have to settle in the warm metropolis full of memories of his past. Between spicy clichés, passionate sex, and unseemly scenes, James Alliston will begin his new life in Los Angeles. California Dreaming is a fun and tantalizing, sensual and profound series that will give free space to the reader's imagination to get lost in the world of the famous fantasy writer, in a captivating first chapter of a romantic and exciting series.

California Dreaming: A Los Angeles Series:
California Dreaming: A Los Angeles Series:

Author: Andrew J. Smith

Publisher: California Dreaming

Published: 2018-10-15

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 9781728820644

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James Alliston is busy with his new life in Los Angeles, which seems to have brought him everything he missed, including his fundamental inspiration for writing. After starting his novel, it seems to be all right, despite the fact that he cannot clearly see what will be the appropriate ending for his book and he cannot imagine a clear future in front of him. His relationship with Stacy, the sweet and sensitive woman he met after so many years, in the same caf

Unbecoming Meetings (#2 of California Dreaming) A Los Angeles Series
Unbecoming Meetings (#2 of California Dreaming) A Los Angeles Series

Author: Andrew J. Smith

Publisher: Youcanprint

Published: 2018-09-11

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 8827846263

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James Alliston, a famous New York writer, moved to Los Angeles after Karen, the woman he loved, left him; tired of James's ongoing existential crisis. He has not written anything for too long, standing in a perennial "creative block". Abandoned by the wife with whom he raised his daughter Elizabeth until the age of three, under the advice of his best friend and literary agent, Andy Jackson, he decides to move back to Los Angeles to start a new life. Known already from the literary and film scene, his return to the city will be an opportunity to re-establish old past, sometimes even unwanted relationships. An old acquaintance in particular will be a great opportunity for James to make new friends with Stacy: the first girl he really loved, before getting to know Karen. Meanwhile, Andy, his literary agent, is in the midst of a marriage crisis in which his wife threatens to take away everything he owns. The arrival of Lucy, a young and beautiful aspiring actress, will not simplify the situation. Meanwhile, James will have the opportunity to meet Allison, a young girl with piercing blue eyes, who will unexpectedly change the cards at table putting at risk the newly created relationship with Stacy: a young and charming woman, kind and sweet, for the which he will start to feel completely unexpected feelings. In the second episode of California Dreaming, a series created by the award-winning novelist Andrew J. Smith and sponsored with the help of California Dreaming Production, will be full of twists, sensual and romantic backgrounds, which will enjoy in the reader's mind a exciting series to read in one breath.

California Dreaming: A Los Angeles Series:
California Dreaming: A Los Angeles Series:

Author: Andrew J. Smith

Publisher: California Dreaming

Published: 2018-10

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 9781726610360

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James Alliston, famous writer of Unforgivable, the novel that made him famous throughout the literary scene in Los Angeles, seems to have finally overcome his "creative block." Intended to go on with his life, after Karen, the woman he loved and left him, settled in Los Angeles and seems to have regained his lost identity. Stacy, his old flame, along with the help of his best friend and literary agent, Andy Jackson, will help James get back into the car. After a charity gathering on behalf of one of the most famous Los Angeles magazines, chairman and shareholder John Craimer offers him a job in his company, and although he refuses the job at the beginning, Stacy says that could be a possibility to so that he starts to get serious again. The events, since James has moved, seem to take him to the right path, and found, all of a sudden, his essential desire to write begins to throw down a few lines, discovering later that those drafts could become a next editorial case. And with commitment and perseverance, James is making sure to patch up the pieces of a whole life sent to ruin. Now, however, the commitments seem more burdensome than when he moved, leaving him very little room for himself. Between spicy interviews with young and sexy journalists, editorial bosses decidedly attractive and out of the ordinary, James will be mixed up in decidedly pushed scenarios, not forgetting the irony inherent in his usual ways of doing which differentiate him from the countless writers who hang out the scene Literary of Los Angeles. A desirable fifth episode to read in a breath, amusing scenes, tantalizing that will enjoy in the mind of the reader a scenario to live in the role of the famous and sexy novelist.

Living the California Dream
Living the California Dream

Author: Alison Rose Jefferson

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 1496229061

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2020 Miriam Matthews Ethnic History Award from the Los Angeles City Historical Society Alison Rose Jefferson examines how African Americans pioneered America’s “frontier of leisure” by creating communities and business projects in conjunction with their growing population in Southern California during the nation’s Jim Crow era.

Hard Decisions (#3 of California Dreaming): A Los Angeles Series
Hard Decisions (#3 of California Dreaming): A Los Angeles Series

Author: Andrew J. Smith

Publisher: California Dreaming

Published: 2018-09-28

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 9781724134042

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James Alliston is a famous New York writer. After being left by his wife, he decides to move back to Los Angeles under the advice of his best friend and literary agent, Andy Jackson. Continually searching for her creative vein, lost for years now, he tries to rebuild a new life in the film capital. His arrival in the city is impetuous and James will find himself immediately in unseemly scenarios with old acquaintances. The meeting with Stacy, an old flame of him, will be for James an ease to rediscover the writer within himself, while the feelings for the woman may be stronger than those he himself would have expected. Meanwhile, Andy Jackson has to face the problems that have arisen between him and his wife Michela, and the arrival of Lucy: a beautiful and sexy emerging actress, will not simplify the situation. In addition, he will have to redirect the young actress towards the climb to success, making sure that she doesn't get behind obscene proposals from directors with Dodgers hats. James, meanwhile, will venture into his new life in Los Angeles, trying to stay away from Allison, a young girl who seems to bring only trouble. At the premiere of Lucy's film, James will officially return to the literary scene of L.A., bringing back memories and feelings that he believed he had lost and overcome. Making doubts arise about the decision to have moved back to Los Angeles, abandoning his daughter Elizabeth to the possibility of growing up without a father constantly present in her life.

Old Knowledge (#6 of California Dreaming) A Los Angeles Series
Old Knowledge (#6 of California Dreaming) A Los Angeles Series

Author: Andrew J. Smith

Publisher: Youcanprint

Published: 2018-10-22

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 8827852867

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James Alliston is busy with his new life in Los Angeles, which seems to have brought him everything he missed, including his fundamental inspiration for writing. After starting his novel, it seems to be all right, despite the fact that he cannot clearly see what will be the appropriate ending for his book and he cannot imagine a clear future in front of him. His relationship with Stacy, the sweet and sensitive woman he met after so many years, in the same café she'd been in college yet, seems to be stalled, even though he'd like to try and make a serious relationship with her. Meanwhile, he can’t keep away from his usual troubles, who see him as a protagonist with the fair sex, and with women more and more fascinating and sensual, which seem to be attracted to him as a magnet. Meanwhile, Andy Jackson, James's best friend and his literary agent, realizing the mistake made, and after betraying Michela, his wife, try in every way to convince her to get back together, although the woman is more than determined to want to go on in her life without him. The evening when James is invited to dinner in the prestigious villa of Stacy's ex-husband, Glenn will officially announce the day of his marriage to Penelope. That same evening, after accompanying Stacy back home, James will receive a call from Karen, his ex-wife, who will inform him of his effective return to the city. Then, Glenn Steel, former partner of Stacy and father of Allison, will be struggling with the preparation of the marriage between him and Penelope, but the latter hides a secret that could make to change the decisions of James against Karen and doubt all the decisions he has made so far. The sixth episode will be a return to the past for all those who have followed the California Dreaming series, "old knowledge" will reappear. James, the famous and forbidden writer, sexy and romantic, will be able to cope with feelings that he considered now part of a distant past?

Interviews, Sex and Responsability (#5 of California Dreaming) A Los Angeles Series
Interviews, Sex and Responsability (#5 of California Dreaming) A Los Angeles Series

Author: Andrew J. Smith

Publisher: Youcanprint

Published: 2018-10-15

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13: 8827852336

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James Alliston, famous writer of Unforgivable, the novel that made him famous throughout the literary scene in Los Angeles, seems to have finally overcome his "creative block". Intended to go on with his life, after Karen, the woman he loved and left him, settled in Los Angeles and seems to have regained his lost identity. Stacy, his old flame, along with the help of his best friend and literary agent, Andy Jackson, will help James get back into the car. After a charity gathering on behalf of one of the most famous Los Angeles magazines, chairman and shareholder John Craimer offers him a job in his company, and although he refuses the job at the beginning, Stacy says that could be a possibility to so that he starts to get serious again. The events, since James has moved, seem to take him to the right path, and found, all of a sudden, his essential desire to write begins to throw down a few lines, discovering later that those drafts could become a next editorial case. And with commitment and perseverance, James is making sure to patch up the pieces of a whole life sent to ruin. Now, however, the commitments seem more burdensome than when he moved, leaving him very little room for himself. Between spicy interviews with young and sexy journalists, editorial bosses decidedly attractive and out of the ordinary, James will be mixed up in decidedly pushed scenarios, not forgetting the irony inherent in his usual ways of doing which differentiate him from the countless writers who hang out the scene Literary of Los Angeles. A desirable fifth episode to read in a breath, amusing scenes, tantalizing that will enjoy in the mind of the reader a scenario to live in the role of the famous and sexy novelist.

California Dreaming
California Dreaming

Author: Christine Bacareza Balance

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2020-08-31

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0824872061

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California Dreaming is a multi-genre collection featuring works by Asian American artists based in California. Exploring the places of “Asian America” through the migration and circulation of the arts, this volume highlights creative processes and the flow of objects to understand the rendering of California’s imaginary. Here, “California” is interpreted as both a specific locale and an identity marker that moves, linking the state’s cultural imaginary, labor, and economy with Asia Pacific, the Americas, and the world. Together, the works in this collection shift previous models and studies of the “Golden State” as the embodiment of “frontier mentality” and the discourse of exceptionality to a translocal, regional, and archipelagic understanding of place and cultural production. The poems, visual essays, short stories, critical essays, interviews, artist statements, and performance text excerpts featured in this collection expand notions of where knowledge is produced, directing our attention to the particularity of California’s landscape and labor in the production of arts and culture. An interdisciplinary collection, California Dreaming foregrounds “sensing” and “imagining” place, vividly, as it hopes to inspire further creative responses to the notion of emplacement. In doing so, California Dreaming explores the possibilities imagined by and through Asian American arts and culture today, paving the way for what is yet to be.