Fiona Graham
Author & Screenwriter
Fiona Graham is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter and producer.
Fiona wrote and produced the Irish feature film 'Songs for Amy', which won the Jury Award for ‘Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking’ at Newport Beach Film Festival, California. Songs for Amy, starring Sean Maguire, was released cinematically in 2014 and is available on multiple global platforms. Fiona founded the production & publishing company Sonny & Skye Productions Ltd.
In 2023, Fiona released her debut novel, The Chancer, which won the Bronze Medal for Comedy Fiction at the Readers’ Favorite International Book Awards 2023. The Chancer also won the category for Popular Fiction at the IndieReader Discovery Awards 2024. Prior to publication, The Chancer ranked at #2 on The Red List by Coverfly, having reached the semi-finals of two international competitions. Her screenplay of The Chancer also has eight accolades.
Fiona lives in County Galway with her husband, daughter and three dogs.
Books
The Chancer
HE WAS BORN TO BE A STAR. PITY NO ONE ELSE THOUGHT SO.
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The Chancer is an uplifting, Irish comedy about making it, or breaking it, in Hollywood.
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In 1989, in the west of Ireland, Donnie McNamara, tired of being a family disappointment, buys a one-way ticket to Tinseltown to pursue his ridiculed dreams of acting.
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Abe Nelson, a fallen Hollywood legend, now wallows in LA dive bars.
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Their worlds collide. Abe becomes an unlikely mentor and is catapulted into Donnie’s fantastical endeavour.
But will the journey to stardom end in red carpets or red faces?
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