The Fan Letter

BY

NANCY TEMPLE RODRIGUE

2011
DOUBLE-R BOOKS

I would like to dedicate this novel to two special people.

First is my husband Russ Rodrigue who has been the source of encouragement and support in everything I have done. I really couldn't have done any of it without him!

The second person is my friend Anne E-T in Modesto. Anne was my “Janice” and my cheering section when I first came up with the idea to write for my favorite TV show. And, yes, she was with me when I went to my first Sci-Fi convention. She didn't even blink when I gave her wrong directions to the Golden Gate Bridge!

Nancy Temple Rodrigue

Any/all references to television shows and/or episodes, movies, businesses, persons named, and/or events described are purely fictional and a product of the Author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual television shows and/or episodes, movies, businesses, people, and/or events are purely coincidental. The actions depicted within the book are a result of fiction and imagination and are not to be attempted, reproduced or duplicated by the readers of this book.

The Publisher and Author assume no responsibility or liability for damages resulting, or alleged to result, directly or indirectly from the use of the information contained herein.

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The Fan Letter
is a romantic story of a television series fan who writes to her favorite actor. She sends a short story, a photo of herself, and commendation for his acting abilities. Their lives soon intertwine when her letter sets off a chain of events that affect both her life, as well as this actor's life and career.

Leslie Nelson, right after a failed marriage, finds herself alone but with plenty of spare time on her hands. Hooked on a popular futuristic television show, “The Time Police”, she decides to write her own episodes just for the fun of it. Best friend Janice urges her to send the manuscript along with a fan letter to the actors on the show. Little did she imagine the chain of events that fan letter would set in motion!

Guest star on “The Time Police”, Phillip Beck, receives Leslie's letter and manuscript during a filming. Recognizing he had always been a second-billing actor and that his personal life seemed to be falling apart, he sees an opportunity to better himself with a great role.

After he extends encouragement to this mysterious fan he also finds himself being drawn in. However, his wife, world-famous model Sarah Beck, sees the fan as a threat and takes matters into her own hands by hiring private investigator Wayne Fields to spy on Leslie.

Once Leslie's novels are published and eventually turned into scripts, she finds her whole world is changed. Her life is now becoming intermingled with favorite television stars she had only admired from the safety of her living room. When an unexpected, exciting offer comes her way, which life will she choose? What will she do when she learns that her every action is being reported by a PI?

Follow the action and romance as
The Fan Letter
follows this “outsider” as she becomes an “insider” in the fascinating world of Hollywood. See how Leslie copes as her fiction becomes her reality and she faces situations that had previously existed only in her wildest dreams.

Dear Readers,

I took a break from the Wonderful World of Mickey and my Hidden Mickey action/adventure series to share with you a story I wrote a little over 20 years ago.

This story is a fantasy I created when I attempted to write novels for an extremely popular television series during the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. My novels never came to fruition at that time, but I envisioned what it might have been like if they had. As you read, you might wonder: Have I really been on the working set of a television series or to a huge Hollywood party? Let's just say a quick No, and move on. The wonderful thing about a fantasy is that is doesn't have to be grounded in too many things, like facts!

One similarity that I do share with the heroine Leslie is that I did receive an encouraging phone call from one of the guest stars on that aforementioned television show. I really did send him copies of the short stories I had written, and he really did call me to offer encouragement as well as to extend his appreciation for the effort I had put into my manuscript (and, yes, I do still have the tape recording that he left on my answering machine). After that uplifting incident, the similarities within
The Fan Letter
end.

Two decades later, within the writing of my second Hidden Mickey novel,
Hidden Mickey 2: It All Started…
, I came back to fantasy writing with a special character I named Wolf and a mysterious pendant tied to him. I liked Wolf so much that I gave him his own book titled
Hidden Mickey 3 Wolf! The Legend of Tom Sawyer's Island
where his background and special, unique abilities are more thoroughly investigated. I am now in the midst of writing Wolf's continuing story in the novel titled
Hidden Mickey 4 Wolf! Happily Ever After?, s
cheduled for release in 2012.

So, for now, sit back and relax as I bring you this romantic fantasy
The Fan Letter
. As I prepared it for publication, it was as enjoyable for me to read again twenty years later as it was to pretend it was all going to come true the first time around!

I hope you enjoy it as well.

Sincerely,
Nancy Temple Rodrigue

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 7

CHAPTER 8

CHAPTER 9

CHAPTER 10

CHAPTER 11

CHAPTER 12

CHAPTER 13

CHAPTER 14

CHAPTER 15