A Novel Noel (TV Movie 2024)

A Novel Noel (TV Movie 2024). 1h 24m

“A successful NYC wins an opportunity to spend weeks working at an independent bookstore and–get this, so exciting–live in the apartment over the bookstore. Gee!u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe male lead runs the bookstore for his owner parents and has evidently turned the corner on profiability. From the small number of customers never buying anything, Iu0026#39;m not sure how. Plus, the two mains seem okay with locking the place up during business hours to go to Christmas Fairs and do holiday games?u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThen it turns out that bookstore guy wrote a novel … really good, of course.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe editor seems unaware of writing groups, so sheu0026#39;s proud that she came up with the idea and started one with in the store.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eA side plot about Christmas Bingo adds nothing.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThen when she tells him sheu0026#39;s a big-time editor, he gets miffed she didnu0026#39;t tell him earlier? This is no writeru0026#39;s reaction, EVER, to finding out a editor likes their work.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAn author myself (36 books written), I look forward to some of these stories about writers … when they get it right. This movie doesnu0026#39;t come close.”