Andrezj of Hollywood

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>*2024 IPPY Bronze Medalist - West Pacific Fiction*</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>An R-rated King Arthur story with a classic Hollywood rise-and-fall twist David Schulze's critically acclaimed second novel is quintessentially grand using three perspectives and two different writing styles to tell a story spanning twenty-two years featuring dozens of characters along both coasts and yet its message cannot be more grounded and relatable: in this messy modern world we live in is there ever really a right choice?</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Boston: Whitman University</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Junior Year is at an end and screenwriting major Jacob Andrezj returns from a revelatory semester abroad to find his life just as he left it: a devastating wreck. A family made dysfunctional thanks to a messy divorce two years prior. His friend group-his sole source of comfort in such chaotic times-too busy with their own lives to even bother trying to fix his. But just when it seems there's no hope Jacob crosses paths with an older man that seems too good to be true... and his life is changed forever.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Los Angeles: The Factory</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Whale just got into town and what better way to launch his film career than with an internship at The Factory the development company of the Oscar-winning producer known only as The Professor. But the internship-not to mention Los Angeles as a whole-turns out to be very different than what Whale had been expecting. His future suddenly hanging in the balance Whale quickly learns how far he's willing to go to win the job.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Los Angeles: Not That Nutty Productions</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>By all definitions Drew Lawrence has the perfect life. Head of Production at one of the most profitable studios in town. Perfect physique. Constant love and praise from all the LA lemmings. But underneath that perfect sunny exterior is a man trapped in a hellish state of mind an insecure beast drowning in alcohol cocaine steroids and problematic sex with his only lifeline his boss and supposed best friend Theo Landreth actively enabling and campaigning to keep him down and dependent. But one devastating phone call is enough to motivate Drew into ending the cycle to finally break free from the toxic Hollywood prison he's always called home-no matter the cost.</span></p>