Pursued by a deranged stalker, haunted by the serial killer from her past, KTLA weather girl Daisy Diaz signs up for a Valley screenwriting course to tackle her trauma on the page. But when her classmates turn up dead, Daisy falls for the divorced cop assigned to protect her from a B-list of suspects: the lunatic professor, his infamous class speakers, her violent ex- fiancé, the cable guy… until Daisy embraces her inner Final Girl to battle the apex predator in a town where dying is a good career move.

“Novak bites, chews, and spits out the hand that feeds him. The ghost of F. Scott Fitzgerald nods in approval.”
—Lem Dobbs, writer of The Limey

“Adam Novak has a merciless eye for a society in which striving replaces every consideration of morality.”
Michael Tolkin, author of The Player

“The craziest goddamn thing I’ve read in a long time.” Alexander Payne, writer-director of Sideways

“A slit-wrist wit that invokes the best of Bruce Wagner with a sweetness in the dark corners that calls to mind the late,
lamented John O’Brien, but Novak’s voice is all his own.”
Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight

“Alive with talent!”
R.M. Koster, author of The Dissertation

“A dark, unforgettable tour inside the Hollywood beast.
Novak knows this world, and it shows.”
D.B. Weiss, creator of HBO’s Game of Thrones