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Came across a review on themysteryreader.com of Shari Shattuck's(ex Ashley Y&R and exwife of Ronn Moss-Ridge B&B)novel Loaded.Didn't know she was also an author.

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"Loaded marks the first entry in the Callaway Wilde series. Shattuck is also an actress, and if book one is any indication her day job may have to take a back seat to a promising new career as a writer. I didn’t want to stop reading and it kept me guessing – two surefire criteria I use when deciding between “good” and “bad” suspense novels. Loaded is good, and more importantly, it’s different. Readers looking for female characters with some hard edges will want to hop on at the ground floor. "

--Wendy Crutcher

Which lead me to think of other soap performers/backstage personnel (past&present)who have put pen to paper in one form or another.

Some to get the list going

Eileen Fulton(Lisa ATWT)2 autobiographies' As My World Turns/As My World Still Turns' and a novel 'Soap Opera'

Leah Laiman (DOOL.AW.ATWT writer(among others) a romance novel 'Maid of Honour'

Mary Stuart(Jo SFT Meta GL) autobiography 'Both of Me'

Michael Malone (OLTL,AW head writer) novels 'First Lady' 'Times Witness' 'Dingley Falls' 'Foolscap' 'Handling Sin' 'Uncivil Seasons' 'Delectable Mountains'

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Thom Racina (DOOL GH writer)

Never Forget Hidden Agenda Snow Angel Secret Weekend Deep Freeze The Madman's Diary Deadly Games

Ruth Warrick The Confessions of Pheobe Tyler

Louise Shaffer(Serena/Josie EON Stephanie SFT Goldie AMC Rae RH) amily Acts: A Novel The Ladies of Garrison Gardens: A Novel The Three Miss Margarets: A Novel Talked to Death All My Suspects

Jacqueline Babbin (AMC LOV exec producer) Bloody Special Bloody Soaps Prime Time Corpse

MacDonald Carey The Days of My Life Beyond That Further Hill A Day in the Life That Further Hill

Sharon Gabet(Raven EON Brittany AW Melinda OLTL) From the Raven to the Dove

Bill and Susan Hayes Like Sands Through The Hourglass

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