Blog Tour - -​Production Values - 22/5/18

Blog Tour 

Production Values 

by Liv Bartlet

On my blog today I have the pleasure of sharing with you......

Production Values 

I would like to thank Rachel Random Resources and Liv Bartlet for inviting me on the blog tour

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Book Information 

“Mornings like this I can understand the appeal of killer high heels. How they click with command down the sidewalk: Get out of my way, I’m in charge and I’ve got the footwear to prove it.”

At the age of 28, Kat Porter has become the it-girl of British TV Production. Gut, gumption, and artistry have carried her through a dozen impossible scenarios to arrive at her first run as Executive Producer, and now all three muses point to Ian Graham’s star power as the key to Los Angeles and golden statues.

But disaster looms as Ian twists Kat into a chameleon fit for success. Ian’s young daughter is thrown into the spotlight and Kat must face the consequences of her neverending quest for acclaim.

Production Values takes a biting but fun look at Hollywood—from the way we interpret female ambition to the influence of the paparazzi on how TV shows and stars fail or succeed.

Purchase Links:

US - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0722TBB3C

UK - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0722TBB3C

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My Review 

4☆ A Warm and Humorous Read.

Production Values, is a warm and funny read about the power of friendship, business and the glitz of Hollywood.

Would you mix business with pleasure?

That's exactly what Kat and Bea did.
Best friends Kat and Bea have a thriving production business together.

However in walks Ian. Ian leads Kat astray as she abandons the company leaving Bea to pick up the pieces.

But can their friendship truly survive mixing business and pleasure?

I really enjoyed the relationship between Kat and Bea, it was refreshing to see their ups and downs, their goals and dreams.
Both are ambitious kick ass strong women.

Production Values is a witty, fresh, fun read, the writing style was engaging and entertaining and captures the spirit of friendship.

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Giveaway 

Giveaway – Win  Production Values & Off Script e-books & $25 or equivalent Amazon Gift Card

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Guest Post 

Hey. Let’s talk about men. And…a little about women. Mostly, I want to talk stereotype, but in much sexier terms.

Production Values is a book about television and what it takes to succeed. For years, England mostly escaped America’s superficial appraisal of acting talent, but as the world has become more global, it’s also become more obsessed with outer appearance — and Hollywood is happy to churn out carbon copies of whatever body type or hair color is currently in vogue.

The nature of Hollywood made character creation in Production Values a little challenging, especially when writing characters who are actors or actresses. And I’ve written all the tropes — I’ve got the sexy blonde and the trashy blonde and the leggy blonde — well, okay, I’ve got all the blondes. And then I’ve got the men with the pecs and the abs. Geez, this novel could fuel the Twitter feed for Brooding YA Hero for a year.

The problem with these superficial stereotypes is that we’ve built entire personalities based on a person’s hair color. But to be a good work of character-based fiction, the stereotypes have to get twisted until they’re unrecognizable.

To be honest, despite casting sheets and Pinterest boards, I wrote personalities first. In the case of Eddie, I didn’t have a good “fit” for him in looks for a long time. Instead, I wrote the person — and then I fit him to the Hollywood stereotype that would give him the career I needed. He became that sexy-skinny warrior dude, but, in my head, I mostly see Eddie’s radiant smile as his fingers caress the spine of a book. All the other descriptions — the abs and the black hair and the chiseled everything — those were supplied by Hollywood.

The same happened with Ian. There are a few images of Ian that formed for me early — he was hard and smoked too much and tended to be on the defensive — but the rest was added after I figured out Ian the person. As I envisioned him as a frustrated artist spending most of his days pretending to jump from train to train in action movies, I matched his looks to the kind of artists that thrive in that medium.

And that brings us back to the women. Wander around the Amazon reviews and you’ll learn that a lot of people want to slap Kat. That’s okay — I expected it. Because Kat is her own antagonist. She’s lost in herself and a little too malleable, especially by people who stroke her ego. And that’s okay — because those traits drive the story (and, let’s face it, the world is full of Kats).

Kat is vaguely described in the book — we know she’s sexy enough to attract Ian but her looks don’t drive her vanity. Instead, she’s the normal inside a world of abnormals — a person whose looks don’t determine her career, and yet part of her story involves the way that abnormal world plays with her looks as a reflection of her success. That outward manipulation of Kat to match Hollywood’s expectations is a major piece of Kat’s journey — and it challenges the stereotypes we use to judge the character and value in another person.

I challenge you to look at those stereotypes as you read Production Values. What moments match the stereotype? Where do your expectations of looks and behavior get challenged? Which characters challenge them? And what do you discover about yourself as Kat makes her choices?

— Liv Bartlet

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Author Bio 

Liv Bartlet is the pseudonym for writing partners Becca McCulloch and Sarah McKnight, who have been building worlds and telling stories together for more than a decade. They’ve logged hours of behind-the-scenes movie and TV footage and challenged each other in a friendly Oscar guessing game every year this millennium. Lifelong Anglophiles, their Monkey & Me world sprang to vivid life on a trip to London that included divine pastries, sublime art, and a spectacular pratfall in the British Museum.

Becca is a professor, a scientist, and a secret romantic who insisted their first order of business in London was a meandering five-mile walk to see Big Ben. She lives with her husband, children, and an ever-expanding roster of pets in Logan, Utah.

Sarah is an Army brat, an Excel geek, and has a lot of opinions on the differences between science fiction and fantasy. She lives with her cat, Sir Jack—who is featured prominently on Liv’s Instagram —just outside Salt Lake City.

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