Moonlight Flip: An '80s Chick Flick novel.

by David Irons

Meena Murray, a twenty-something voiceover artist for the hit Saturday morning cartoon show "Moonlight Flip," is a hero to little kids across the country. But in real life, she schmoozes around L.A. trying to find a real acting gig. All Meena wanted was that "Old Hollywood Romance," but with each audition, she's willing to do anything to get that one big role.Roxi Mendez is Moonlight Flip's creator; every day, she fights to keep her two egomaniac Porsche driving producers, Nick and Tom, from turning the show into corporate garbage. Moonlight Flip isn't just a story for Roxi; it's part of her life, part of an old secret she promised she’d always keep …When Meena and Roxi are forced to quit the show, they steal the final reel of the last episode and hit the road.Soon, the show’s power-crazed, coked-up producers are in hot pursuit, chasing Meena and Roxi through the seedy side of Hollywood.Will Meena ever find that "Old Hollywood Romance" and survive the night?Will Roxi be able to end Moonlight Flip the way she wanted?The girls fight against time, and the odds, to end Moonlight Flip and their own destinies, as all hell breaks loose in La La Land.

288 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 19, 2021

About the author

David Irons was the kid who went to his room to watch and read horror when his relatives came round. It paid off. When he left his room, he became an award-winning filmmaker and writer living on the south coast of England. His films, colourful and stylish in design, have won awards at the Cambridge Film festival, Las Vegas VIFF festival, and LA Independent Festival for cinematography, editing, writing, and directing. '7 Winters Alone' - a sci-fi, horror short - was a winner in David Lynch's 2014 Short Film Competition.

In 2019 David had his first novel, Night Waves, published, followed by Night Creepers, Polybius, and The Bloody Tracks of Bigfoot in 2020 - 2021 from Severed Press. Since then, David has become a Splatterpunk award-nominated writer for his '80s summer camp slasher, 'Don't Go To Wheelchair Camp.'

The moral of this story is to be weird and stay in your room. It pays off in the end.