https://www.cathygraber.com/home daily 1.0 2026-01-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a91d7c93faa7400f7a9fee/bbe146f3-aef6-4394-88a0-c212d4bb31cb/JUST+WRONG_BANNER.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a91d7c93faa7400f7a9fee/85300bd8-aba3-4d51-a8f4-f230df1795a4/ALMOST+RIGHT.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a91d7c93faa7400f7a9fee/dec64c15-5761-4c2b-9c39-1988cd07c1b1/AUTHOR+PIC.jpg Home https://www.cathygraber.com/about daily 0.75 2026-01-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a91d7c93faa7400f7a9fee/bc8809a3-5221-4bc1-9648-003af79f4ad3/Cathy_Graber.jpg About - ABOUT CATHY GRABER I’m a writer and former film publicist, now based in San Sebastián, Spain. For 15 years, I worked at Sony Pictures, leading international campaigns for films including Django Unchained, Capote, The Fog of War, and Kung Fu Hustle. My writing draws on that world—as well as years of travel and living abroad—to explore identity, ambition, burnout, motherhood, and reinvention. I publish weekly personal essays and memoir-in-progress on Substack, where I write about life inside Hollywood, a complicated childhood, and the disorienting freedom of starting over in midlife. I’m also developing longer-form fiction set in the entertainment industry. You can read more on my substack: https://cwgraber.substack.com/ https://www.cathygraber.com/novels daily 0.75 2022-06-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a91d7c93faa7400f7a9fee/bbe146f3-aef6-4394-88a0-c212d4bb31cb/JUST+WRONG_BANNER.png Novels - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a91d7c93faa7400f7a9fee/85300bd8-aba3-4d51-a8f4-f230df1795a4/ALMOST+RIGHT.png Novels - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.cathygraber.com/contact-1 daily 0.75 2022-07-14 https://www.cathygraber.com/just-wrong daily 0.75 2025-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a91d7c93faa7400f7a9fee/bbe146f3-aef6-4394-88a0-c212d4bb31cb/JUST+WRONG_BANNER.png Just Wrong - JUST WRONG It’s 2006, and in the high-stakes world of Hollywood film marketing, George Carlini is barely staying afloat. As an executive at a major studio, he’s convinced his slick subordinate, Konrad, is gunning for his job. His assistant—who also happens to be his cousin—won’t stop quoting self-help books. And the publicist he just hired? More interested in seducing the enigmatic movie star than saving the campaign. George’s personal life is equally unhinged. He’s certain he’s too flawed for real love—and watching his ex fall for Mr. Perfect doesn’t help. Just when things couldn’t get worse, the man of his dreams shows up. Is this romance… or another Hollywood illusion? Then his parents roll into town in a Winnebago, triggering full-blown anxiety. George scrambles to hide his pill stash—and his secrets—before they unravel everything. Set to a Donna Summer soundtrack, George’s chaotic journey takes him from L.A. to the Venice Film Festival, through Tokyo’s red carpets, and all the way to Sin City. Along the way, he learns that when everything seems just wrong, life has a funny way of flipping the script. https://www.cathygraber.com/almost-right daily 0.75 2025-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62a91d7c93faa7400f7a9fee/85300bd8-aba3-4d51-a8f4-f230df1795a4/ALMOST+RIGHT.png Almost Right - Almost Right Three years later, George Carlini is back—and on the surface, he has it all: power, success, and a solid relationship with Diego. But when Diego suggests they become foster parents to a young girl, everything shifts. George—who’s always hated kids—reluctantly agrees after a therapist session, hoping it might bring them closer. Meanwhile, Sonja, now a production exec, is overseeing a film called Almost Right—a thinly veiled retelling of George’s life and their chaotic campaign for Just Wrong. Bratty young star Timothy West is attached to play the lead. After he fires his longtime publicist, Rhonda (who also happens to be his grandmother), George hires her to stay in the loop—and maybe exact a little revenge. When Studio X’s computer network is hacked, George is forced to work from home—where he unexpectedly bonds with their foster toddler, Moon. Their mutual love of Donna Summer becomes the unlikely bridge between them. As George and Diego fumble their way through foster parenting, they begin to fall in love with Moon—and with the idea of being a family. Just as they’re assured custody, news hits: Moon’s young mother has completed rehab and wants her daughter back. Now, George must choose—again—between ambition and the people he loves. As the court date looms, and Almost Right barrels toward production, he faces the ultimate test: will he fight for the family he never thought he wanted, or let it all slip away?