Penny Smith
Pen Name(s): Penny Pence Smith
The Last Legwoman- A Novel of Hollywood, Murder and Gossip, Sunset West -- Guns, Grit and Gossip, Shadow of the Wave -- Stranded and Stalked, Detective in the Crosshairs - Murder in the Desert, The Fat Lady Sings -- Nine Stories fromthe Hollywood Beat
Meredith Ogden Hollywood Legwoman Mysteries
Suspense
Craft
Workshops include: Writing your memoir--Telling your stories; Meandering through Hollywood as a reporter
Penny Pence Smith, author of the newly released The Fat Lady Sings—Nine Stories from the Hollywood Beat began writing professionally as a teenager for the local Indio, California, daily newspaper. Later, after college graduation, she covered the entertainment industry as a movie magazine editor, as assistant (“legwoman”) for a well- known gossip columnist, feature correspondent and bureau manager for the New York Times Special Features Syndicate, and as correspondent for the Hollywood Reporter. With a Ph.D. in communication, she managed advertising and marketing consulting agencies and has taught journalism and communication at UNC Chapel Hill and Hawaii Pacific University. The Fat Lady Sings is the much-anticipated fifth book in the Meredith Ogden Hollywood Legwoman Mystery Series. Penny’s Under a Maui Sun and Reflections of Kauai were best-selling tourism books in Hawaii.