soap operas

When actor, writer, producer Trudi-Ann Tierney first went to Kabul, with the promise of work, it was in an illicit bar. Today she is head of drama at Afghanistan's biggest TV broadcaster, Moby Media Group, where she oversees about half a dozen programs, including the country's most popular soap Raaz Hai Een Khana (The Secrets of This House). Occasionally as madcap as Catch-22 and as absurd as One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, this is a part-hilarious, part-nail-biting account of a talented TV executive working in a war zone and an environment that is dangerous to women. The author's sense of humour and her love of the Afghan people shines through.

Bored with her ordinary life, thirteen-year-old Janet imagines herself a character on her favorite soap opera.

Presents all three novels in David Van Etten's "Likely Story!" series, in which Mallory, the daughter of a daytime soap opera diva, decides to write her own soap opera, geared towards teens, and is shocked when the network picks it up, sending Mallory's life into a spiral of chaos, self-doubt, and excitement as she deals with casting, friendships, romance, and her mother.

Vivien decides to spend a summer with her mother and gets a part in a soap-opera.

Little by little Catherine's life begins to echo the life of Cassandra, a character on her favorite soap opera, and when someone wants Cassandra dead Catherine is sure her own life is in danger.

A collection of thirty-six audition scenes written specifically for a Soap Production class, including selections for two women, two men, and a man and a woman.

Mallory is faced with new challenges when the soap opera that she created and wrote is nominated for an Emmy award and she has to deal with sneaky saboteurs while trying to decide between her boyfriend and her show's leading man.

While on vacation in New York City, Nancy and Bess investigate a series of damaging leaks revealing a soap opera's story lines, and the shocking murder of the show's head writer.

Thirteen-year-old Ruby feels her life is over when she learns that her parents are splitting up at the same time she hears rumors that she will be fired soon from the television soap opera she has worked on since age six.