Zoey Dean is the pseudonym
for the creators of ''The A-List'' series and ''How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls'', which has been renamed and turned into a TV show known as ''
Privileged'' on the CW in September 2008. Zoey Dean's books are produced by the media packager
Alloy Entertainment
Alloy Entertainment, LLC (formerly Daniel Weiss Associates and 17th Street Productions) is a book packaging and television production unit of Warner Bros. Television Studios. It produces books, television series, and feature films.
Alloy Entert ...
, which created ''
Gossip Girl
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'', ''
The Clique Series
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'', and ''
The A-List'' and sold them to
Little, Brown and Company
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.
[ Books from The Talent Series started appearing in 2008.
According to a biography provided by Alloy Entertainment, Zoey Dean "divides her time between her house in Beverly Hills and lounging around on her favorite small Caribbean islands". In 2006, The New York Times described Zoey Dean as "a pseudonym for a married writing team".][ The pseudonym has been jointly used by writers ]Cherie Bennett
Cherie Bennett (born 1960 in Buffalo, New York) is an American novelist, actress, director, playwright, newspaper columnist, singer, and television writer on the CBS Daytime soap opera ''The Young and the Restless''.
Biography
Bennett attended W ...
and Jeff Gottesfeld.Biography: Zoey Dean
Scholastic Corporation
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Bibliography
Young adult novels
''The A-List''
#'' The A-List'' (2003)
#''Girls on Film
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'' (2003)
#''Blonde Ambition
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'' (2005)
#'' Tall Cool One'' (2005)
#''Back in Black
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'' (2005)
#''Some Like It Hot
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'' (2006)
#'' American Beauty'' (2006)
#'' Heart of Glass'' (2007)
#''Beautiful Stranger
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'' (2007)
#''California Dreaming
"California Dreamin" is a song written by John and Michelle Phillips in 1963 and first recorded by Barry McGuire. The best-known version is by the Mamas & the Papas, who sang backup on the original version and released it as a single in Dece ...
'' (2008)
''The A-List: Hollywood Royalty''
#'' Hollywood Royalty'' (January 2009)
#''Sunset Boulevard'' (August 2009)
#''City of Angels'' (March 2010)
''Talent'' series
#''Talent''
#''Almost Famous'' (2008)
#''Star Power'' (2009)
#''Young Hollywood'' (2009) (never released)
Other novels
#'' Privileged'' (2008) (formerly published under the name ''How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls'')
#''Hollywood is Like High School With Money'' (July 2009)
See also
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American writers of young adult literature
American children's writers
21st-century American novelists
Pseudonymous women writers
Collective pseudonyms
21st-century pseudonymous writers