Author announces book on TV�s �Dynasty�

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(Free-Press-Release.com) November 16, 2003 -- The author of BRBTV.com and its accompanying guides to classic television shows has just released her fourth book, "Dynasty High."



The book, an interactive PDF exclusively sold over the Internet, is a compendium of information on the 1980s ABC-TV show "Dynasty" and its spinoff, "The Colbys."



The book features an episode guide for both shows, along with an extensive cast list and character guide, as well as what the author terms "fun and useless" information about the show and its stars.

"This book is designed to be a loving tribute," says Billie Rae Bates, 35, who lives in northern Michigan. "If you want to know the names of all of Alexis Colby's husbands, or just how many times Sammy Jo slid down that bannister in the Carrington mansion, then you've come to the right place," she jokes.



She says she even has compiled a "Catfight Count" of the knock-down, drag-outs of the female stars of "Dynasty."

The 137-page book offers electronic navigation throughout, and hyperlinks to celebrity websites. Structured in a letter-size format, it can be printed out on a standard printer.



She sells the book for $4 from her own BRBTV.com site, and it's also carried for the same price through eBookAd.com.



Bates, who published similar PDF guides to the shows "Dallas" and "The Dukes of Hazzard" earlier this year, says the projects come from a natural love of the classic shows as a teen in the 1980s.

"We all wanted to beat J.R. Ewing -- or be Krystle Carrington -- didn't we?" she says. "Besides sources of exhaustive and accurate reference information, these books are designed to be a way to relive our own feelings of escapism when we originally watched the shows."



Bates carries all three of the classic TV tributes under the umbrella of "BRBTV," which, she says, has been offering, "peace, love and useless information about television since 1998." She originally created the concept on her off-hours of working for The Detroit News and living in downtown Detroit.

Before her time writing and editing for The News, Bates worked as a writer and editor for The Saginaw (Mich.) News, the Wausau (Wis.) Daily Herald and the graphics and publishing department of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.



Bates has also published a fiction novel, "Rubi," based in Detroit. The author recently moved to northern Michigan.



For more information about the author or her books, click to http://www.brbtv.com or http://www.billieraebates.com.