The Filmmakers: Hollywood Murders

Written by Michael Corrigan

Narrated by Amara Dotsun

After a fatal one night stand, a young film student named Steven Demko kills a hitman in self defense and steals mob money to help fund his film. He attends the American Film Institute, but while facing temptation in the Hollywood world of glamor and hidden gold, he finds himself the object of a hunt by a police detective and the mob, including the hitman's brother. Will the film ever get made? Who will show up on the set, and might be an odd collaborator? In the tradition of "Get Shorty," this thriller explores the violent world of mobsters, addiction and Hollywood filmmakers. It is also a love story.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Author's Republic
• Release date: Nov 4, 2021
• ISBN: 9781667935126

Michael Corrigan

Michael Corrigan was born and raised in San Francisco, California. He holds an MA in English from San Francisco State and attended the American Film Institute to study screenwriting. He taught English and speech communications at Idaho State University. His books include Confessions of a Shanty Irishman, A Year and a Day, a grief memoir published by Idaho State University press, and These Precious Hours, now an audiobook read by Alex Hyde White. He has been active in theatre and worked with Sam Shepard and Peter Coyote. NPR broadcast Corrigan’s play, Letters From Rebecca, and he was nominated for a Pushcart prize for the story, “Free fall.” Mulligan, a novel, is his seventh book. His most recent novel is The Dean Sisters.