01398cam a2200265 4500 445678252 TxAuBib 20120818120000.0 120425s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2012015557 9781451617757 1451617755 (OCoLC)759913677 DLC DLC NjBwBT GCmBT TxAuBib Weiner, Jennifer. The Next Best Thing : a novel / Jennifer Weiner. 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. New York : Atria Books, 2012. 389 p. ; 24 cm. Actors aren't the only ones trying to make it in Hollywood. At twenty-three, Ruth Saunders left her childhood home in Massachusetts and headed west with her seventy-year-old grandma in tow, hoping to make it as a screenwriter. Six years later, she hits the jackpot when she gets The Call: the sitcom she wrote, The Next Best Thing, has gotten the green light, and Ruthie's going to be the showrunner. But her dreams of Hollywood happiness are threatened by demanding actors, number-crunching executives, an unrequited crush on her boss, and her grandmother's impending nuptials. 20120718. Women screenwriters Fiction. Self-realization in women Fiction. Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif) Fiction.