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Pocket Star, October 2011
Mass Market Paperback, 464 pages
ISBN-10: 1451647387
ISBN-13: 9781451647389
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Calysta Jeffries is the hottest black actress in daytime and the diva of the soap opera world, known for her role as Ruby Stargazer on television’s most popular soap opera, "The Rich and the Ruthless."
After fifteen years, three returns from the dead, two failed pregnancies, one alien abduction, and overcoming retrograde amnesia, Calysta still hasn’t managed to snag the biggest award in daytime drama: the Sudsy. Now is supposed to be her moment. But Calysta’s onscreen/offscreen rival Emmy Abernathy wins the award for the fourth time. The drama begins when journalist Mitch Morelli asks Calysta for a quote after the award show and her true feelings for her costar slip out.
Ripped from the headlines of Soap Opera Digest and straight off of the television screen, Secrets of a Soap Opera Diva will give readers plenty to talk about as they try to guess where the real world ends and Rowell’s imagination begins.
After fifteen years, three returns from the dead, two failed pregnancies, one alien abduction, and overcoming retrograde amnesia, Calysta still hasn’t managed to snag the biggest award in daytime drama: the Sudsy. Now is supposed to be her moment. But Calysta’s onscreen/offscreen rival Emmy Abernathy wins the award for the fourth time. The drama begins when journalist Mitch Morelli asks Calysta for a quote after the award show and her true feelings for her costar slip out.
Ripped from the headlines of Soap Opera Digest and straight off of the television screen, Secrets of a Soap Opera Diva will give readers plenty to talk about as they try to guess where the real world ends and Rowell’s imagination begins.
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How did you come to write this book?
"Secrets of a Soap Opera Diva" is a novel I've been slowly writing for ten years - inspired by working in daytime off and on for over two decades, having had the privilege of working on three different soap operas in that span, and here's a little trivia for you... Who remembers me as Georgette the Chauffeurette in my soap opera debut in a New York City-based sudser? You also may remember me in 'As The World Turns' in the late eighties, and most notably as feisty fashionista Drucilla Winters on 'The Young and the Restless' for seventeen years. Due to overwhelming demand I decided to complete "Secrets" while I was on the road with my New York Times' Bestselling memoir, "The Women Who Raised Me".
Essence Magazine, May 1, 2010
...ESSENCE.com sat down with Victoria Rowell, best known as the feisty fashionista Drucilla Winters on 'The Young and the Restless,' to discuss her new novel 'Secrets of a Soap Opera Diva.' The story focuses on ...
