True Lies Of A Drama Queen (Red Dress Ink Novels) [Paperback]

Lee Nichols (Author)

Book Description

Series: Red Dress Ink Novels | Publication Date: June 1, 2006

Some true lies of a drama queen:

My name is Elle Medina.
(Absolutely true!)

I'm a professional psychic.
(Completely accurate. Except for the "professional" part . . . and the "psychic" part.)

I'm planning my best friend's wedding.
(Maya only thinks she's planning it.)

I'm a serious journalist.
(I cover crystal therapy for the local weekly rag.)

I live with my boyfriend, Merrick.
(I'm pretty sure he's still my boyfriend.)

She may be lovely and talented but Elle Medina's phone psychic business is sputtering, her boyfriend thinks she's attending graduate school (not exactly) and she's about to ruin her best friend's wedding. Things can't get worse. Can they?

Of course they can. (For example, her little striptease is currently playing on the Internet.)

Join Elle as she seeks out the culprit responsible for her unexpected unclothes star turn, strenuously avoids higher learning and discovers that coming of age is not a destination, but a journey . . . and she's having a hard time staying on the road.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Nichols' charming sequel to Tales of a Drama Queen (2004) finds Elle Medina in a healthy relationship with her boyfriend, Merrick, while earning a dubious living as a fake phone psychic and writing a New Age column for a Santa Barbara paper. Elle is thrown when Maya, her best friend, announces that she is marrying her boyfriend, Brad, in just three short months. Elle insists on coordinating the wedding, despite Maya's reluctance. Maya's concerns prove founded when Elle inadvertently ruins Brad's Jewish conversion dinner. But Elle soon has even bigger problems on her hands when video footage of her dancing scantily clad in a store dressing room turns up on the Santa Barbara Grrrrls Web page. Vowing to find out who's responsible for the hidden camera, Elle now has a mission--and a convenient way to avoid Merrick's suggestion that she look into graduate school and consider moving in with him. Fans of the first book will be thrilled to see zany Elle back in action. Kristine Huntley
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"Nichols is one of chick lit's brightest lights." -- Publishers Weekly

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Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Red Dress Ink (June 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373895755
• ISBN-13: 978-0373895755
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,011,269 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lee Nichols is the author of five novels for adults, including the bestselling TALES OF A DRAMA QUEEN and HAND-ME-DOWN. She currently writes the HAUNTING EMMA series for young adults. www.LeeNicholsBooks.com
Check out the Haunting Emma video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKrWmQFk9G0

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars wild chick lit caper, May 31, 2006

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: True Lies Of A Drama Queen (Red Dress Ink Novels) (Paperback)

In Santa Barbara Intuitive Counselor (some would say phony phone psychic) Elle Medina is stunned when some diabolically clever depraved predators film her stripping in a dressing room; she is the current rage on the Internet. Outraged she plans her style of vengeance on these miscreants, but is unaware of whom the cameraman is, but does have a nagging suspicion as to the identity of the pervert.

Elle is more concerned that her best friend Maya is getting married to the right guy, but in the wedding gown from hell. She needs to take charge of the nuptials though she and Maya disagree on everything. Her own love life is okay as Merrick is a fine young man, but she worries that he is in Manhattan seeking a glamour queen and that he will learn she lies about graduate school and her profession even as she considers sharing an abode with him. What is a psychic who cannot see present and future and is unable to learn from her past mistakes do? She starts with eluding her houseguest, the groom's sexy sibling and keeping away from the wedding Rabbi who wants her, but after that who knows because as everyone knows, nobody could truly predict the future.

As with her first appearance (see TALES OF A DRAMA QUEEN), Elle's latest tale is all over the place, but ultimately ties together through the wedding. The chick lit story line has the phony psychic in a panic over the Internet strip, the wedding, and her relationship with Merrick as readers follow the latest capers of the flawed screwball Elle.

Harriet Klausner

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pure entertainment, October 8, 2006

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Elisa Stein "sweetgrl318" (Edgewater, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: True Lies Of A Drama Queen (Red Dress Ink Novels) (Paperback)

Both of Lee Nichols Drama Queen books are a lot fun. Light and fluffy with a great spacy main character. I love the silly drama, the crazy mishaps and of course the happy endings. The quirkiness of these novels is what makes them so great.

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5.0 out of 5 stars True Lies Of A Drama Queen, July 23, 2006

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A. Hakala "books rock!" (Rome, GA) - See all my reviews
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I loved it! The main character was great!