“Caroline Bock is at her finest storytelling in The Other Beautiful People. I couldn’t put it down! It is a deeply personal book with witty dialogue, a staccato pace, and pure heart.” -Melissa Scholes Young, author of Flood and The Hive

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Publisher:  Regal House Publishing. Independent traditional publishers. 2021 independent publishers of the year—Foreword Reviews.

Format:                       Trade paperback/ebook

List price:                   $19.95/ISBN: 978-1646037292.

Description:               A workplace love story.

THE OTHER BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE SYNOPSIS:

In the entertainment world, the spotlight shines on the beautiful—but behind the scenes are those who make the magic happen. Amy Greene is one of them. As head of marketing and public relations at the Cinema Channel, a beloved yet struggling cable network devoted to classic and independent films based in midtown Manhattan, Amy is at the height of her career—but her life is anything but steadfast. Torn between her charismatic boss, Owen Orski, and her husband Jack, Amy’s world schisms with 9/11, the death of her father, and the secrets she’s kept locked away. The Other Beautiful People is a dazzling cinematic novel about love, loss, and the search for meaning—in work, family, and the spaces in between.  It’s a story that will captivate your heart and stay with you long after the final scene. The Other Beautiful People is a workplace love story unlike any other.

Caroline Bock biography:

Caroline Bock’s first novel for adults is The Other Beautiful People. She is also the author of LIE and Before My Eyes, acclaimed young adult novels (St. Martin’s Press), and the award-winning short story collection Carry Her Home.  She studied creative writing with Raymond Carver at Syracuse University and earned her MFA in Fiction from the City College of New York. Notably, she spent twenty years as a cable executive in marketing and public relations with AMC, Bravo, IFC, and IFC Films, which inspired The Other Beautiful People. She now lives in Maryland with her family and is the co-president at the Washington Writers’ Publishing House.

 More about Caroline Bock and her creative process in this article here.

PREVIEWS….

With a traumatized and ailing husband in the Washington DC suburbs, and a beloved job working for a classic film network in midtown Manhattan, Amy Greene spends her days traversing the Northeast corridor trying to make sense of her complicated family life. Set against the backdrop of a forever changed post-9/11 landscape, Caroline Bock’s The Other Beautiful People is an ode to New York City in all its manic grittiness. It is also an ode to work families and nuclear families as well as a testament to the power of a single aching, forbidden, cinematic kiss. –Susan Coll, author of eight novels, most recently, The Literati, Bookish People and Real Life and Other Fictions

Cinematic and poignant! In The Other Beautiful People, Caroline Bock unspools the reels that play nonstop in our heads. Home movies and bloopers, auditions and sex scenes, footage of disasters endured and averted. As her main character struggles to love and be loved, Bock captures the challenge—and wonder—of paying attention to our life as we live it. -Mary Kay Zuravleff, author of American Ending

Caroline Bock’s novel includes the tragedy of 9/11, the tech boom of the early aughties, workplace romance, and marital disappointment, with fast, often funny, authentic pacing. The best part? There’s a firm twist readers won’t see coming tying it all together. The Other Beautiful People reminds us all that big events may affect our lives, but small choices can, too.”– Bethanne Patrick, author of Life B, podcast host, and literary critic

Aaron Sorkin, move over. Caroline Bock’s beautiful people are fast-talking, witty, and driven. Old-movie references pepper the prose and fuel both the humor and the warmth of this gorgeous novel. No-nonsense New Yorker Amy Greene tries to keep her balance in a time of societal and personal tumult as she navigates a choice of three loves and two crucial voices from her past. The book is an unstoppable ride, a thrilling read.-Virginia Hartman, author of The Marsh Queen

Against the backdrop of the classic film channel where she works, Amy Greene is making her own movies, uncut and commercial-free. Frame-by-frame, we follow her as she navigates the grief, chaos, and camaraderie of a post-9/11 New York. Fierce and vulnerable, she is held in the terrible lullaby of those early days of remembering and rebuilding. Listen, if you’ve never been kissed on a New York City sidewalk after the last call, this book is the next best thing, and if you have . . . this book is the next best thing. -Laura Scalzo, author of American Arcadia

A swift, smart, yet achingly romantic story of one woman’s high-wire walk between love and work in the aftermath of 9/11. Like the classic films that animate the imagination of heroine Amy Greene, The Other Beautiful People captures a fleeting, vanished moment in time, as loss and hope vie for the final word. Novelist Caroline Bock belongs among the poets of New York, singing its steam vents and pizza-scented tunnels, its corner bars and corner offices, its ghosts and rain-slick sidewalks. –Kathleen Wheaton, author of Aliens and Other Stories and 2024-2026 Stegner Fellow

All the world’s a movie stage to smart, ambitious, and complicated Amy Greene, a career woman torn between her office and her family. With the cinematic sweep, snappy dialog and giddy pace of Amy’s beloved classic movies, Caroline Bock lovingly spotlights The Other Beautiful People, the dreamers and strivers who are the beating heart of a New York City emerging from the devastation of 9/11, haunted by the past, going boldly into the future. –Alice Stephens, author of Famous Adopted People and Twain: A Tale of Nagasaki

Amidst the backdrop of the gritty and dreamy Manhattan, Amy Greene, hard-charging television executive for a classic movie channel, must choose between succumbing to the siren’s call of family ghosts, workplace romances, and old movie stars and facing the reverberations of the trauma of her childhood and 9/11. With her trademark big heart, perfect pitch, and sass, Bock renders the web of beautiful people who inhabit our families, marriages, city streets, Amtrak cars, and dreams. –Michelle Brafman, author of Swimming With Ghosts  

Like opening a time capsule, Caroline Bock’s novel, The Other Beautiful People, is a snapshot of a very specific place and time: New York City in the aftermath of 9/11. On the surface, it’s a smart, sexy, fast-paced corporate drama full of loves, loyalties, and betrayals as a modern working woman navigates the double crises of her family and her career. But underneath the executive mergers and family dramas, something else is humming: the collective shock and post-trauma of sirens, smoke, and firefighters. The Other Beautiful People is a true time capsule of a book told with depth, insight, wisdom, and the honesty that only hindsight can provide. A kind of love letter to New York City—a silent but always present character—Bock manages to capture a bygone era: from BlackBerrys and dial-up internet to the ever-present fear that greeted all Americans but especially New Yorkers at the turn of the millennia…when we briefly gathered together at the altars of humanity and hope.-Nancy Stohlman, author of After the Rapture

Gorgeously written and expertly crafted, The Other Beautiful is a tender journey through grief and love past and present that reads like that favorite movie – the one you always watch to the end no matter what. Amy Greene floats off the page and into the reader’s heart on each and every page of this stunning novel. Brava. Caroline Bock writes a story and characters (the city being one of them) that are as complex and fragile as the time itself, all the while capturing it all on the page with perfect measures of honesty and care. This book will have you craving a slice—and a time with the people that matter to you most.-Beth Kanter, journalist/author of No Access Washington, DC

© Caroline Anna Bock 2025

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