A brilliant, fast-paced comedy about life behind the scenes in the film business, and how to survive when your greatest fantasy comes true and threatens to wreck your perfectly ordinary life.A brilliant, fast-paced comedy about life behind the scenes in the film business, and how to survive when your greatest fantasy comes true and threatens to wreck your perfectly ordinary life.After the movie, when the credits roll up you might see his name flash past: ‘Joseph West’ and think nothing of it. Not an actor, not a director, Joe is just one of the money men, kept at arms distance from the talent. Until one night in New York the talent comes calling.Olivia Finch is lit from within, an actress who was born to it but can’t stand the superficiality anymore. Now all she wants is a real conversation with an ordinary guy – and Olivia Finch always gets what she wants. Cue Joe, married, ordinary accountant, Joe.And then cue a snowball of deception, acting and confusion that puts Joe in the limelight, his marriage in trouble and a dead body on the ground in this hilarious caper.Jon Teckman was born in Northampton in 1963. He served as an advisor on film policy to both Conservative and Labour governments before becoming Chief Executive of the British Film Institute in 1999. He now lives in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire with his wife Anne and sons Joseph and Matthew. Ordinary Joe is his first novel.• Another gem found in The Borough Press open submission• Jon Teckman has firsthand experience of the movie business he is the ex-CEO of the BFI and is on the board of the BBFC.• It’s a debut novel, Jon is a graduate of the Curtis Brown Creative Writing programme.Competition: The Sound Of Crickets; Only Daughter; Amendments; 40 Juicing Recipes For Weight Loss And Healthy Living (Juicer Recipes Book); The Summer Of Secrets. Nick Hornby;Marissa Farrar; Anna Snoekstra; H.M. Lynn; Jenny Allan; Sarah Jasmon;
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