Stay-at-Home Mom to Launch Suspense Thriller Novel
YA author and stay-at-home mother Wendy Hinbest of Hamilton, will debut her suspense thriller 'Masquerade of Lies.' She is currently working on her second YA novel Lethal Precognition.
Hinbest, a stay-at-home mother with an Early Childhood Education diploma and real estate license, has been writing since 2009. She has been working towards publication while raising her four children. She has also written articles for the Inspiring News about children and heart health.
Set in Willowdale, California, 'Masquerade of Lies,' is a contemporary YA novel about Hanna Clark, a seventeen year old girl who desperately wants to escape her dark past of self-mutilation and psychosis. After she moves with her mother to a new city, she soon becomes a suspect in a murder investigation when the police find her with a dead girl from school surrounded by a pool of blood. On a mission to vindicate herself, Hanna races against time to prove her innocence, all while befriending the most popular girl in school, Claire Miller, and falling for Claire's boyfriend, Josh Banks. As Hanna's relationship with Josh begins to flourish, not only does she face Claire's unrelenting wrath, she's also shocked to learn Josh is a suspect in the murder as well - causing her world to come crashing down around her and leaving her mental stability hanging by a thread.
Jennifer Andrew, founder of Femme VIP, a women's online e-zine said, 'This book had my interest from the beginning to the end. All the suspense had me at the edge of my seat!'
Hinbest is available for interviews and appearances. She can be reached at whinbest@gmail.com.
Photo Flash: Wild Root's GLORIA Staged Reading with Dick Latessa, Zach Grenier & Genevieve Angelson
The Wild Root Company, a new production endeavor committed to developing and presenting new works of theatre and film from emerging playwrights and screenwriters, presented a successful one-night-only benefit reading of Gloria, a brand new screenplay adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece The Beautiful and Damned at The Mainstage Theater at Playwrights Horizons on Monday January 6, 2014. Check out a look back below!
Dick Latessa to Join Zach Grenier and Genevieve Angelson in GLORIA Benefit Reading at Playwrights Horizons, 1/6
The Wild Root Company, a new production endeavor committed to developing new works from emerging playwrights and screenwriters, announced today full casting and creative team for its one-night-only benefit reading of Gloria, a brand new screenplay adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece The Beautiful and Damned. All profits raised from the evening, which will take place at The Mainstage at Playwrights Horizons on Monday January 6, 2014 at 8:00 pm, will go to the Ali Forney Center for Homeless LGBTQ Youth. Broadway legend, Tony and Drama Desk Award winner Dick Latessa (Broadway's The Lyons, Promises, Promises, Brighton Beach Memoirs) will star in the reading directed by two-time Drama Desk Award nominee Ed Sylvanus Iskandar (Restoration Comedy, These Seven Sicknesses).
Zach Grenier and Genevieve Angelson Set for GLORIA Benefit Reading at Playwrights Horizons, 1/6
The Wild Root Company, a new production endeavor committed to developing new works from emerging playwrights and screenwriters, announced today initial casting for its one-night-only benefit reading of Gloria, a brand new screenplay adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece The Beautiful and Damned. All profits raised from the evening, which will take place at The Mainstage at Playwrights Horizons on Monday January 6, 2014 at 8:00 pm, will go to the Ali Forney Center for Homeless LGBTQ Youth.