About the Author: 'Soap-Stud & Blue-Movie Girl' are two blisteringly satirical short novels, set in an alternative 1990s Hollywood in which stars such as James Dean and Marilyn Monroe are still alive and working. 'Soap-Stud' charts the career of hunky Jason Howl, discovered on a California beach by a talent scout and launched into working as a TV extra. A bit-part on the hit late-night soap Eldorado nudges Jason into the Big Time after some raunchy footage from a nude scene is posted on the internet. 'Blue-Movie Girl' is the story of mixed-race beauty Joylene Duchat, the estranged daughter of a 'flasher' turned televangelist. Introduced to a different kind of talent scout at eighteen, she becomes Pussy-Kat Kane, the hot new Queen of Adult Movies. But Joylene yearns to be a serious actress. Can she break out of porno into