"Rarely and not at all in recent memory have I encountered a debut novel as polished and powerful and sure-footed as Douglas Wood's Ladies of the Canyon. Filled with compelling and wild-at-heart characters, clear-eyed observations about life's precarious road and set against a world at once alluring and dangerous, this is a winner in every conceivable way."-Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune "Not since Carrie Fisher's Postcards from the Edge has there been a sharper gaze into the toxic nature of child stardom and fame in Hollywood. Ladies of the Canyon is a riveting story of addiction among child stars idled by the dark side of Hollywood and human emotion. A whodunit with a nasty twist!"-Robert W. Walker, Dead on Instinct "A scathing and scary Hollywood tale packed with more twists, turns and switchbacks than a rainy night on Laurel Canyon Boulevard. If you really want to know whatever happened to Baby Jane, read this book."-Vince Waldron, co-author with Ronnie Spector of Be My Baby: How I survived Mascara, Miniskirts and Madness or My Life as a Fabulous Ronette "Suspenseful and chilling.

Wood explores the dark side of Hollywood with equal parts horror and wit."-Anthony Lawrence, writer, The Twilight Zone "It didn't take long for the characters in Douglas Wood's Ladies of the Canyon to spring from his imagination into my reality. When I glance at TMZ or Access Hollywood, I catch myself hoping for a segment on Devon O'Keefe or Nikki Barnes, before remembering their lives of celebrity, second chances, and disturbingly fierce determination, are fictional. (One hopes!)"-Joel Paley, Author & Lyricist of Ruthless! The Musical.