Successful writers of popular romance have traditionally created in their books glamorous and exciting dream worlds they never inhabited in reality.
Take, for example, Rachel, the least glamorous character in the book.
Mr. Redd, 43, who is known for his glamorous interiors (his "Big Book of Chic" comes out next month from Assouline), calls the bathroom his "crowning glory".
Meanwhile she is working on a tie-in Lucky Santangelo cookbook and a book of glamorous photos she took during the 50s and 60s in Hollywood.
This new sitcom gives Heather Graham (right) all the standard accessories: a WASPy character name (Emily Sanders), a semi-glamorous New York job (in book publishing) and two colorful best friends.
Many in the horror fiction community felt that the rise of glamorous, fanged creations in books and shows such as True Blood (based on Charlaine Harris's novels), the Night World series and The Vampire Diaries by LJ Smith, and Twilight, Stephanie Meyer's series of books which have been turned into blockbuster films, have helped to create a new generation of "softer" vampires.
And in this part of the book, larded with glamorous "Out of Africa" references, there is also the suggestion that their affair is the stuff of legend.
My father probably wouldn't admit it but he's a compulsive writer and wanted to write a top-selling book with a glamorous story".
Meanwhile, the American novelist John Irving revealed that he was trawling Edinburgh's less glamorous underbelly for his new book, Until I Find You, which is partly set in Leith.
"Hollywood Life: The Glamorous Homes of Vintage Hollywood," a book of photographs by Eliot Elisofon, is a reminder of another time -- when the stars were stars, and not just celebrities, and when they lived on an enormous stage set of their own creation.
