Make your own movie from start to finish with this entertaining, practical choose-your-path nonfiction guide to the world of filmmaking, from the critically acclaimed author of The Lady from the Black Lagoon.&nbsp; Girls belong in the world of filmmaking. While we see them acting on-screen, there are also countless women working every single job possible behind the scenes as part of the film's crew.&nbsp;Are you a girl who is interested in film making? Do you wonder how you actually make a movie? Well, this is the book for you. &nbsp; Girls Make Movies&nbsp;puts you in the driver's seat as you create a fictitious zombie blockbuster and are guided through each stage of production and learn about the processes, techniques, and people involved in making a&nbsp;Hollywood hit. Luckily, every path through this nonfiction book results in the&nbsp;film being made, but&nbsp;you will be asked to make choices that will affect the outcome of the movie. Will you&nbsp;shoot on location or on a studio lot? Use practical or special effects? Hire a greensperson or a someone to do pyrotechnics? The choices are up to you! Written by critically acclaimed author Mallory O'Meara and paired with eye-catching, graphic illustrations by popular comic book artist Jen Vaugh, this unique, practical book provides young girls with advice and inspiration while offering a sense of adventure as they learn how to create a movie!&nbsp;

Girls Make Movies: A Follow-Your-Own-Path Guide for Aspiring Young Filmmakers

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O'Meara, Mallory

Arts, Music & Photography

Running Press Kids

Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Beverages & Wine

Hanover Square Press

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Arts & Literature

2019 SCIBA Book Award Winner for Biography A Thrillist Best Book of the Year A Book Riot Best Book of 2019 One of Booklist’s 10 Best Art Books of the Year The Los Angeles Times Bestseller A PureWow “Book We Can’t Wait to Read in 2019” A Bustle Nonfiction Book Coming Out In 2019 To Start Getting Excited About The Lady from the Black Lagoon uncovers the life and work of Milicent Patrick—one of Disney’s first female animators and the only woman in history to create one of Hollywood’s classic movie monsters As a teenager, Mallory O’Meara was thrilled to discover that one of her favorite movies, Creature from the Black Lagoon, featured a monster designed by a woman, Milicent Patrick. But for someone who should have been hailed as a pioneer in the genre, there was little information available. For, as O’Meara soon discovered, Patrick’s contribution had been claimed by a jealous male colleague, her career had been cut short and she soon after had disappeared from film history. No one even knew if she was still alive. As a young woman working in the horror film industry, O’Meara set out to right the wrong, and in the process discovered the full, fascinating story of an ambitious, artistic woman ahead of her time. Patrick’s contribution to special effects proved to be just the latest chapter in a remarkable, unconventional life, from her youth growing up in the shadow of Hearst Castle, to her career as one of Disney’s first female animators. And at last, O’Meara discovered what really had happened to Patrick after The Creature’s success, and where she went. A true-life detective story and a celebration of a forgotten feminist trailblazer, Mallory O’Meara’s The Lady from the Black Lagoon establishes Patrick in her rightful place in film history while calling out a Hollywood culture where little has changed since.

The Lady from the Black Lagoon

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

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“At last, the feminist history of booze we’ve been waiting for!” 
—Amy Stewart, author of The Drunken Botanist\nFrom\nLos Angeles Times 
bestselling author Mallory O’Meara comes a lively and engrossing feminist history of women drinking through the ages\nStrawberry daiquiris. Skinny martinis. Vodka sodas with lime. These are the cocktails that come in sleek-stemmed glasses, bright colors and fruity flavors—these are the Girly Drinks.\nFrom the earliest days of civilization, alcohol has been at the center of social rituals and cultures worldwide. But when exactly did drinking become a gendered act? And why have bars long been considered “places for men” when, without women, they might not even exist?\nWith whip-smart insight and boundless curiosity, 
Girly Drinks unveils an entire untold history of the female distillers, drinkers and brewers who have played a vital role in the creation and consumption of alcohol, from ancient Sumerian beer goddess Ninkasi to iconic 1920s bartender Ada Coleman. Filling a crucial gap in culinary history, O’Meara dismantles the long-standing patriarchal traditions at the heart of these very drinking cultures, in the hope that readers everywhere can look to each celebrated woman in this book—and proudly have what she’s having. 
 Review 
“An insightful, entertaining feminist history of women and alcohol through the ages.” – 
USA Today\n“[A] thorough, and thoroughly entertaining, history… Elegantly woven into each cheeky chapter is rigorous historical context… O’Meara glides easily from the 17th-century pulquerias of Mexico to the feminine “fern bars” of the 1970s, making sure to not to forget the queen of girly drinks: the Cosmopolitan. Provoking both thought and laughter, this serves as bracing refreshment from a master textual mixologist.” 
–Publishers Weekly, starred review\n"Feminist and very funny... O'Meara deftly blends in equal measures of social history, gossip, and solid research, and adds enjoyable footnotes... women have discovered, invented, advanced, championed, and celebrated alcohol. Ladies? This calls for a drink." 
 –Booklist\n“This is a book that should be on any beverage alcohol enthusiast’s shelf.” 
 –American Whiskey Magazine\n"An exhaustively detailed yet breezy history set against the arc of overall women’s rights around the globe." 
–Kansas City Star\n"At last, the feminist history of booze we’ve been waiting for! After centuries of being excluded, ignored, or treated as accessories, Mallory O’Meara has put women at the center of a global history of alcohol. From winemakers and distillers to activists, leaders, and change-makers, 
Girly Drinks takes us on a whirlwind tour of the role women have played in what we drink, and how, when, and why we drink it."\n—AMY STEWART, author of The Drunken Botanist \n" 
Girly Drinks is anything but—a raw shot of boozy history that stings as well as it soothes!"\n—PATTON OSWALT \n"With this lively book Mallory O’Meara has provided a real service, giving us not only a long-overdue new perspective on a great many familiar issues, but also raising all kinds of other issues that are unfamiliar and shouldn’t be."\n—DAVID WONDRICH, author of Imbibe \n"Cheers to Mallory O’Meara and her serious yet seriously entertaining treatise on the history of gendered drinks. 
Girly Drinks will introduce you to queens and nuns, bootleggers and bartenders, telling their stories and proving the point that 
all drinks are girly drinks."\n—JEANETTE HURT, author of Wisconsin Cocktails and Drink Like a Woman \n“As if being a woman today isn’t enough cause for a drink, Mallory O’Meara has compiled an addicting history of women and the alcohol that fills their glasses. This book left me positively inebriated (not sorry) with excitement about the underrated cultural footprint women have made in the world of alcohol, from the goddesses who let it flow freely at parties, to the women who stomp grapes with their feet, to every successf

The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick

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