Jack Fitzgerald – författare

Ava Fisher is a flamboyant flake. Kenny Summers is a recent high school graduate. Luvon Ramsey is a junk dealer. Marie Elrod is a handicapped sixteen year old. Their mutual error is saying Hello to a very charming psychopath. Each ends up strangled and holding onto a Teddy Bear with a knife in its back.

The serial killer is hidden in plain sight and has his focus on Olivia Haines, an English teacher at Fairfield High School in West Los Angeles. She considers herself a stranger to these murders until one day someone leaves her an unusual calling carda strangled cat dangling in her classroom. She is suddenly aware she is being scheduled as murder victim number five.

Olivia is rapidly convinced she is in a life and death struggle between the killer and herself and one of them will not survive. Using every teaching skill she possesses, she wages an all out battle for survival against a very lethal psychopath.

If you like Agatha Christies Miss Marple, youll certainly relish Olivia Haines in Teddy Bear Murders.

Seasoned screenwriter, playwright, and script doctor Jack Fitzgerald knows the sting of rejection all too well. In Roger Should Have Said Yes, he shares details of his personal journey as he attempted to sell screenplays in Hollywood, along with four unproduced screenplays that leave it up to others to decide whether they are yes or no people.

Screenplays included in the anthology include Piece of Cake, in which a young prostitute reinvents her life on South Beach in Miami; Bad Trip, which tells the story of a religious couple honeymooning in Hollywood who discover how quickly good can turn to bad; Pasadena, in which a poor family must immigrate to wealthy Pasadena during the early 1900s to save their child; and Cleo de Janeiro, in which a young band employs a ninety-five-year old hottie as their lead singer. Included at the end of each screenplay is a form that encourages individuals, book clubs, and budding screenplay writers to step into the shoes of a movie studio executive named Roger and provide positive or negative feedback.

In this anthology of screenplays, Jack Fitzgerald leaves his destiny in the hands of perfect strangers as they attempt to decide whether Roger Should Have Said Yes.

Inexperienced travelers and introverts Olivia Haines and Ron Whittaker decide to take their honeymoon in Mexico aboard the cruise ship the Pan Americana. They agree to change their behaviors while on vacation and become more social with no idea what this extroverted performance might cost them. They quickly befriend several of their odd shipmates.

Theres the loud mouth heiress who wants to run their lives and her nemesis, Alan Paxton, who likes to make her rich life miserable. Theres a retired Episcopal priest and his wife. Finally, Mallory Holmes: a blind and deaf young man with a frigid wife. These odd new friendships flounder, however, when Alan ends up murdered, and Mallory claims hes the perpetrator.

The passengers arrive together back in Los Angeles, where the murder case unfolds. Rons cousin takes the case, despite Mallorys insistence of his own guilt. Olivia and Ron are starting to regret their decision to meet people, but even they believe Mallory is innocent. They take it upon themselves to find the real killer, and no one will be more surprised by the truth than the newly married couple.