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Biography

Melody Godfred is an author, screenwriter and writing consultant in Los Angeles. Her writing blog, Write In Color, was nominated by Write To Done as one of the top twenty writing blogs on the web. Melody recently published her debut novel, "The Agency: Hollywood Talent, CIA Managed.” The Agency follows Caroline Madison, a CIA operative who is deep undercover running the most powerful talent agency in Hollywood, The Agency. Using her Hollywood clout, CIA training and a network of undercover CIA operatives posing as actors, paparazzi and beyond, Caroline manipulates her celebrity clients to generate entertainment scandals that distract a gossip-hungry American public from political affairs. After completing her undergraduate studies at the University of Southern California, Melody received her law degree from Loyola Law School. Melody was a litigation attorney at Glaser, Weil, Fink, Jacobs, Howard & Shapiro, one of Los Angeles’ premier law firms, before leaving to pursue her writing career full-time.

Inspiration

The Agency was inspired by the collision of two events in my life: first, the realization that our culture is becoming increasingly obsessed with celebrity news, and second, having a friend work his way up from the mailroom at a major Los Angeles talent agency. A quick browse of the news will reveal that major political and entertainment events have been coinciding for some time now. I set out to figure out why. Though The Agency is fiction, it does set out a conspiracy theory that will keep you glued to the novel: what if the Government was behind every major entertainment scandal of our time?