Loraine Despres Email & Phone Number

Loraine Despres is a best-selling novelist and recovering screenwriter.  Her first novel The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc, was a Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club featured selection and a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick. It became a national best-seller and is now in its 22st printing. It engendered The Southern Belle’s Handbook, Sissy Leblanc’s Rules to Live By, which included all Sissy’s rules such as, “It’s okay for a woman to know her place, she just shouldn’t stay there.” Her next novel, The Bad Behavior of Belle Cantrell is about intolerance and love at a time when women were expected to “know their place.” It’s set in 1920, when prohibition was in full swing, women were clamoring for the vote, and a narrow-minded intolerance was sweeping the world.During her screenwriting days, Loraine wrote screenplays, pilots, and MOWS including episodes of The Highlander, The Equalizer, Crime Story, Chips, Knots Landing, Dynasty, and The Waltons, but she is best remembered for writing that cultural icon the “Who Shot J.R.?” episode of Dallas. She taught screenwriting at UCLA for seven years and worked as an international screenwriting consultant in Germany, Sweden, Spain, and Canada. Loraine served on the Board of Directors of PEN USA. She's a past board member of Women In Film and a was longtime trustee of the Women In Film Foundation. She's also a member of Northwestern’s Council of 100 and NUEA where she’s a peer group leader for young alums. She lives in Beverly Hills with her husband, writer-producer Carleton Eastlake, and continues to enjoy Bad Behavior. She can be reached through her website www.LoraineDespres.com.

Listed skills include Screenwriting, Books, Television, Creative Writing, and 45 others.