{"id":66759,"date":"2018-11-09T23:50:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T04:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=66759"},"modified":"2020-05-07T13:28:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T17:28:03","slug":"chuckerman-makes-a-movie-book-signing-at-she","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2018\/11\/09\/chuckerman-makes-a-movie-book-signing-at-she\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuckerman Makes a Movie (book signing) at SHE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/chuckerman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-66760 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/chuckerman-97x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"97\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/chuckerman-97x150.jpg 97w, https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/chuckerman-768x1187.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/chuckerman-1024x1583.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/chuckerman-600x927.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/chuckerman.jpg 1604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 97px) 100vw, 97px\" \/><\/a>Author <a href=\"https:\/\/franciearensondickman.com\/\">Francie Arenson Dickman<\/a> will be presenting her book <em>Chuckerman Makes a Movie<\/em> at a special event on <strong>Monday, Nov. 12 from 6-8 PM<\/strong> at the fashionable <a href=\"http:\/\/shestores.com\/about\/\">SHE<\/a> boutique located at 6400 Telegraph Rd. Bloomfield Hills. Books will be available courtesy of Book Beat (248) 968-1190.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A funny, romantic story about how \u201cthe road you think you\u2019re not taking can become the road you\u2019re actually on.\u201d &#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/book-reviews\/francie-arenson-dickman\/chuckerman-makes-a-movie\/\">Kirkus Review<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLove matters a little, but luck matters more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The words of thirty-five-year-old David Melman\u2019s Jewish grandmother still haunt him. He\u2019s scared to settle down. Instead, he dates twenty-something pop stars that he meets through his celebrity-branding business. But when his niece and nephew inform him that he\u2019s hit \u201crock bottom\u201d with his latest inappropriate relationship, David realizes that changemight be in order\u2014so when his sister Marcy, with her own ulterior motive, pushes him to take a film-writing class taught by her friend Laurel, he agrees.<\/p>\n<p>Will writing a movie about a childhood visit to his grandparents in Florida, an unforgettable driving lesson, and a 1977 Cadillac bring David love? Luck? Or both?<\/p>\n<p>Alternating between David\u2019s present-day life and his past through his movie script, Chuckerman Makes a Movie is a romantic comedy blended with a comedic coming-of-age.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Through my writing, I\u2019m able to skew reality in such a way that whatever the issue of the day (and there always is an issue of the day), it seems much less dire when I\u2019m done writing about it. I credit my writing with keeping me in school, off drugs, married, and out of the eye of child protective services.&#8221; &#8211;Francie Arenson Dickman<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Francie Arenson Dickman will be presenting her book Chuckerman Makes a Movie at a special event on Monday, Nov. 12 from 6-8 PM at the fashionable SHE boutique located at 6400 Telegraph Rd. Bloomfield Hills. Books will be available courtesy of Book Beat (248) 968-1190. &ldquo;A funny, romantic story about how &ldquo;the road you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[434],"class_list":["post-66759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-francie-arenson-dickman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}