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COLETTE FREEDMAN COLETTE FREEDMAN- An internationally produced playwright with over 25 produced plays, Colette was voted “One of 50 to Watch” by The Dramatist’s Guild. Her hit musical Serial Killer Barbie played to sold out shows in 2015 in both Los Angeles and New Zealand.

Her play Sister Cities was the hit of the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe and earned five star reviews: It has been produced around the country and internationally, fifteen times including Paris (Une Ville, Une Soeur), Rome (Le Quattro Sorelle) and Australia. It is next up in Chicago August 2016. She wrote the film which is currently in post-production and stars Jacki Weaver, Alfred Molina, Jess Weixler, Stana Katic, Michelle Trachtenberg, Amy Smart, Troian Bellisario, Tom Everett ...more

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Publishing Day Book #12- Embracing Transgressive Fiction in the midst of one of the most critical elections in our country.

When Nate Yacos approached me about writing Tugnutt’s Creek, I felt like I was back in the early nineties at the Grateful Dead Concert in Philly, where it was impossible not to get a contact high as the crowd sang “Friend of the Devil”. The whole idea was so far out of my comfort zone, I wasn’t sure I could pull it off. Helping bring Nate’s delightfully bizarre mind to life became a delicious

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	The Affair (The Affair, #1) 3.52 avg rating — 3,005 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Thirteen Hallows (Thirteen Hallows, #1) by Michael Scott (Goodreads Author), Colette Freedman (Goodreads Author) 3.35 avg rating — 2,934 ratings — published 2011 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Consequences (The Affair, #2) 3.45 avg rating — 1,272 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anomalies by Sadie Turner, Colette Freedman (Goodreads Author) 3.90 avg rating — 406 ratings — published 2016 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sister Cities 4.57 avg rating — 67 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tennis Dates by Colette Freedman (Goodreads Author), Hillary Leigh Gross 4.35 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sister Cities 3.92 avg rating — 25 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Wrote That One, Too ...: A Life in Songwriting from Willie to Whitney by Steve Dorff, Colette Freedman (Goodreads Author) 4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Reluctant Fairy Godmother: and the Absolutely Positively Impossible Good Deed by Colette Freedman (Goodreads Author), Kimberly Much, Alexandria Skaltsounis (Illustrator) 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Being a writer is an amazing job, but we’re all writers, most of us just forget to put our stories down on paper.”
― Colette Freedman

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“One's character is determined not how she gets caught in the downpour of disappointment, but how she finds the hope to look for the rainbow.”
― Colette Freedman

tags: hope, inspirational, strength-through-adversity

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“Trying to restructure a perfectly structured script is like trying to fit in a size four jeans when you're a size ten.”
― Colette Freedman

tags: script, structure

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“Being a writer is an amazing job, but we’re all writers, most of us just forget to put our stories down on paper.”
― Colette Freedman

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“Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: love

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“Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just something that people say they'll do to take the permanence out of a breakup. And someone always takes it to mean more than it does, and then is hurt even more when, inevitably, said ‘friendly' relationship is still a major step down from the previous relationship, and it's like breaking up all over again. But messier.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

tags: breakup, sad-love, this-lullaby

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“..And now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive”
― Keith Urban

tags: breakup, song-lyrics

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“Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.”
― Graham Greene, The Comedians

tags: breakup, love, romance

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