Jessica Elbaum

Lifelong friends Barb and Star embark on the adventure of a lifetime when they decide to leave their small Midwestern town for the first time - ever. Best friends Barb and Star leave their small Midwestern town for the first time ever to go on vacation in Vista Del Mar, Florida, where they soon find themselves tangled up in adventure, love, and a villain's evil plot to kill everyone in town. Seeking a way out of their crumbling world, Nebraska beauties and best friends for life Barb and Star decide to take a chance and go beyond the fence to discover if the grass is greener on the other side. Without delay, the girls pack up their indispensable hair curlers and comfortable culottes, and off they go to the sun-kissed Florida resort of Vista Del Mar. However, who would have thought that darkness resides even in Paradise? Before long, the unsuspecting holidaymakers find themselves embroiled in an evil plan concocted by a remorseless super-villain bent on destruction. There is no turning back. Can Barb and Star save the idyllic Vista Del Mar haven and, in the process, find the meaning of life? —Nick Riganas Barb and Star are great friends, and they truly believe in each other. When they find themselves far from home in the midst of an adventure to Vista Del Mar, will they make it back unscathed? Meanwhile, a scientist makes a remarkable innovation and discovery. Will he uncover the sinister intention behind the funding of his research, before it's too late? Of Soft Rock, NE, forty-somethings overly naive Barb and Star are never-lying, especially to each other, BFFs who spend all their time together in being coworkers, each who goes to work even on her day off to be with the other, and housemates, ever since the end of their respective marriages, Barb a widow, and Star whose ex-husband left her for another woman leaving her feeling unwomanly. Their perfect, at least in their own minds, narrow lives having never left Soft Rock take a few hits in succession making them decide to take a chance in breaking out of those lives by going on vacation, specifically to the seaside resort of Vista Del Mar, FL. While the start of their vacation doesn't go quite the way they had hoped or envisioned, they eventually and slowly settle into that vacation life in part when they meet handsome Edgar Pagét, in who both are interested romantically. Edgar has the potential to be the cause of the end of Barb and Star's friendship. What neither knows is that Edgar, who has stated that he is a clam inspector, is not who he says he is as he is in Vista Del Mar at the behest of his boss Sharon Gordon Fisherman, whose end goal is to kill everyone in town with specially developed killer mosquitoes for this purpose. While Sharon has her own personal motives for wanting everyone in town dead, Edgar is doing it solely for love in Sharon having strung him along for her end goal. But things don't go smoothly for Edgar on several fronts, leading to Sharon needing to send in a secondary operative, Darlie Bunkle, the worst secret agent in the world especially when it comes to the secret part. —Huggo

When Alice Klieg wins the Mega-Millions lottery, she immediately quits her psychiatric meds and buys her own talk show. Alice suffers from borderline personality disorder, but she has what she needs in life. She has an apartment, she has a best friend, and she has tapes of every Oprah Winfrey show. And now, after winning the lottery, she also has 83 million dollars. What she doesn't have is an outlet for the whole world to know who she really is. The TV station cut her off when she tried turning her lottery announcement into a frank discussion of her sexual experiences, but with her money in hand, she's off to LA to convince two struggling TV producer brothers to produce her own TV show. Whatever it costs, she's going to do it. From swan entrances to dog neutering, she is going to introduce the world to Alice. But is the world ready for Alice? —Anne Campbell Alice Klieg is a young woman with psychiatric issues who unexpectedly wins the lottery. Inspired by her idol, Oprah, Alice decides to use her new fortune to start her own television talk show. Nothing proves to be off limits for her eccentric new show. When Alice chooses to stop taking her psychiatric medicine, the quirky show becomes even zanier.