Barnes & Nobel Highlights Special on My Fractured Life" by Rikki Lee Travolta

Bookstore giant puts spotlight on Hollywood novel recently optioned for the screen.

(PRWEB) July 28, 2003 - Barnes & Nobel is offering the breakout novel My Fractured Life" by B-movie actor Rikki Lee Travolta at 10% list price, $14.35. Readers Advantage club members receive an additionally discounted price of $13.63.

Travoltas semi-autobiographical novel details the behind-the-scenes lifestyle of Hollywoods elite. An internationally published news journalist prior to achieving fame as an B-list movie star and recording artist, Travolta provides intimate details of the entertainment industry with journalistic accuracy. Celebrity names that appear in the book include George Clooney, Johnny Depp, and Angelina Jolie.

Reviews at Barnes & Nobels website compare My Fractured Life" to the New York Times best sellers Postcards from the Edge" by Carrie Fisher, If Chins Could Kill" by B-movie actor Bruce Campbell, and Dad, Dames, Demons, and a Dwarf" by shock jock Mancow Muller.

On July 25, 2003, it was announced that Port Magee Pictures has optioned the film rights for the novel. Port Magee pictures produced the 2002 television series Santiara." Port Magee principals Dan Riley and Peter J. Clark share individual credits on The Original Kings of Comedy," Superstar," The Wood," and The Core."

Earlier in the month it was announced that Ingram Book Group is now serving as the primary distributor of the Travolta novel.

Ingram maintains inventory on an estimated 650,000 titles, with additional access to materials representing thousands of publishers and imprints. Ingram Library Services maintains a National Book Clubs Standing Order Program that supplies selections of the Today Show's "Today Book Club," Good Morning America's "Read This!" program, the USA Today Book Club, and the "Reading with Ripa" light fiction program of Live with Regis and Kelly.

Ingram Book Group is a leading wholesaler of trade books, spoken audio, and magazines to booksellers, librarians, and specialty retailers. Its operating units include Ingram Book Company; Ingram Periodicals, Inc.; Ingram International, Inc.; Ingram Library Services, Inc.; Spring Arbor Distributors, Inc.; Tennessee Book Company; Ingram Fulfillment Services, Inc.; and Ingram Customer Systems, Inc.

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