From Here to Reality Reviews
"REQUIRED READING" - NEW YORK POST
"A very funny Hollywood story told with wit and passion by someone who's obviously been there." -Jay Leno
"Schindler's cockeyed insider's take on how bottom-feeder TV gets made is what gives this entertaining novel its oomph." -Publishers Weekly
"What's real? What's fake? Who knows anymore? But I do know FROM HERE TO REALITY made me laugh. Great book!" -Roger L. Simon (Author- THE BIG FIX)
Los Angeles was burning. The streets were filled with looters and rioters. The air was choking with ash, smoke and gunfire in the distance. Welcome to Hollywood. Compared to New York, where Johnny Koester grew up, the apartments in Hollywood were spacious, airy, sunny, and cheap. Some even included a parking space and a swimming pool. But behind the flower boxes and screen doors of his newly adopted apartment building, Hollywood View Court, lives were being lived that defied the formulaic storylines being concocted in the film and TV production bungalows just blocks away. They called it the land of fruits and nuts, lala land, tinsel town, but to Johnny, it was just a company town. Somewhere that offered a job in a business he had experience in: television. Having been just laid off, he wanted to make a new start in a new town, but little did he know that the only jobs available were in something new called reality television. And even more of a shock would be the reality that awaited him just a couple of doors over in his new apartment a reality named Benny.
(left photo: TV Weatherman, Comedian and Co-Host of Media Path Podcast, Fritz Coleman with Steven Schindler)
