Star Craving Mad, a novel by Elise Abrams Miller

Maddy Braverman is addicted to celebrities. She spends her free time (at thirty and single, she has a lot of it) reading and fantasizing about famous people. A teacher at an elite Manhattan private school, Maddy nearly falls in a faint when she finds out that Lola Seabolt, daughter of her biggest movie star crush, Nick Seabolt, will be a student in her class this year. Maddy manages to keep her wits about her most of the time because she knows she doesn't have a chance - Nick is happily married to another Hollywood superstar, Shelby. With help from her scruffy but handsome teaching assistant, James Wilkins, Maddy is able to separate doing her job from her celebrity passions. Then Nick begins to make moves toward becoming more than just friends. Will Maddy achieve her dreams of landing a celebrity lover? Or will she realize that true love is closer than she imagined?

The book tell us Maddy’s madness about celebrities. She dreams life (and fall in love with celebrity) that she can’t have. She searched too high and fell from above. She doesn’t see what’s in front of her: friends (and a man) that care for her. They give her pure love, not fake one and vanish after the director said “Cut”.

Ms. Miller is author, actress and ex- elementary teacher. She wrote this story according to what she felt and faced. She really knows how to teach 5 years old kids. She really knows what happened behind the scene of films. And she really knows the power of copyright. Maddy Braverman faced those and I can feel I almost know those. At least, I’m writing novel. So I try to save my stories well.
I know how hard to publish books through publishing house. We have to wait few months for response. If they accept, we’re happy. If they say “No”, we have to send other story or try again to other publishing house. But Maddy is very lucky. Publishing house published her first story after she faced complicated conditions. Even without her sending it.

I want that too. Not the complicated conditions, but my story being published. My books are displayed in book stores. What a long way to see that…

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