One Size Fits All

by Ben Patrick Johnson

Mamie Redbird is a legend, and it's about time she got recognized with an Oscar. Iris Bolin is a renowned African American actress determined to fulfill her career's ultimate reward. Katie Glassman is the up-and-comer, a hot, young actress with the drive to succeed. All three women are frontrunners for this year's Best Actress award. What has them most concerned is what they will wear. Enter rising gay fashion designer Nelson Vargas, who has sketched the most remarkable, diamond-encrusted dress. Problem Nelson has inadvertently promised the dress to them all. Ben Patrick Johnson is also the author of Third and Heaven and In & Out in Hollywood.

Genres: Gay Fiction, LGBT

256 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2007

About the author

Ben Patrick Johnson began writing at the age of five. His first essays were printed on a mimeograph machine in a church basement in St. Paul, MN and performed for his parents and whichever neighbor children he could get to sit still and listen for a few minutes. Johnson went on to pursue a career in media (after barely finishing high school) and fooled enough people in the business that, at 22, he was named Director of Production for ABC Talkradio in Los Angeles. In 1994, a difficult year as a correspondent for the TV show EXTRA cured him of any further ambitions in entertainment journalism.

Following EXTRA, Johnson self-soothed by eating lots of sheet cake late at night, sometimes in supermarket parking lots. He became a full time voice-over actor and started writing more seriously. Today, he has five novels to his credit and is the leading trailer and promo voice in Hollywood. Concurrently, Johnson has emerged as a noted social media LGBT and Human Rights activist with 300,000 followers on Twitter and Facebook. He lives with his husband Mariano and arguably too many pets on a hillside overlooking Los Angeles.

Reviews

[Bruh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wickedly interesting book about a young fashion
designer upstart, and his travails.
Particularly when he "sorta" promises
the same Oscar gown to several Best Actress
nominees.