Plot Lines

by Erika Rummel

Angela likes to meet new people -- and make them characters in her screen play. When she plugs film director Sal Quinn into her story line, the plot of his last and most gory movie begins to infiltrate her life.


Set in Los Angeles, the iconic city of make-belief, Plot Lines revolves around a cast of eccentrics and their questionable pursuits. How much does Otis, the owner of The Cryonic Institute and guardian of frozen corpses, know about the lives of his clients? Has Miriam, a yoga instructor with a soothing voice, driven her husband to suicide? Are Salvadore Quinn’s movies inspired by the ghosts that haunt him? And will Angela get lost in her script and miss out on real life? Spoiler alert! She ends up with a real man and learns to live in the moment.

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First published May 24, 2013

About the author

Erika Rummel has taught history at University of Toronto and Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo. She divides her time between Toronto and Los Angeles and has lived in villages in Argentina, Romania, and Bulgaria. The author of more than a dozen books of non-fiction, she has written extensively on social history. She is also the author of two novels, Playing Naomi and Head Games. She was awarded the Random House Creative Writing Award, 2011, for an excerpt of The Effects of Isolation on the Brain.