Fiction. The novel HOLLYWOODLAND: AN AMERICAN FAIRY TALE tells the story of small town girl Sharlene Miller gone to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. In pursuit of her dreams she becomes a groupie, porn star, television celebrity, and finally, the cultural icon Sierra. Struggling with demons real and imagined, addicted to drugs and abandoned by her fans, Sierra moves on through coma-induced hallucinations and ever more fantastically pornographic films, ultimately exposing Hollywood itself. Modeled on Alice in Wonderland, The E! True Hollywood Story, and the lives of real starlets Marilyn Monroe, Jane Mansfield, Kristi Lynn and Savannah, HOLLYWOODLAND: AN AMERICAN FAIRY TALE is the progression of a definitive Hollywood dream.

Jennifer Banash was born and raised in New York City. She lives, works and writes in Iowa City, Iowa, and is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Iowa. In August 2006, she co-founded Impetus Press, a small indie publisher in the Midwest dedicated to publishing serious literary fiction with a pop edge. Jennifer's first novel Hollywoodland: An American Fairy Tale, is published by Impetus Press, and a non-fiction essay, "The Ring," will appear in the May 2007 release Generation What?: Dispatches from the Mid-Twenties Crisis, published by Speck Press. She is currently writing an untitled young adult series for Penguin, Berkley, and working on a novel about the court of Versailles under the reign of Louis XIV.