Living Props
A practical, behind-the-scenes guide to supporting artist work, with real movie set stories, insider tips, and an honest look at life in the background.
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Well Spent Press author
Joy Geldard-Smith
Screen-inspired books shaped by film, television, supporting artist work, and cinematic supernatural thrillers.
About the author
Film, screen life, and cinematic fiction.
Joy Geldard-Smith writes screen-inspired books shaped by film, television, and life around the camera. Her work includes practical guides for supporting artists and cinematic fiction adapted from original screenplay ideas.
Start with Joy if you like stories with a screen-world edge.
Her books move between practical behind-the-scenes guidance and dark, cinematic fiction with vampires, cults, belief, power, and survival at the centre.
Joy Geldard-Smith books
Screen life and supernatural thrillers
Behind-the-scenes screen life, cinematic supernatural thrillers, and stories shaped by film, television, and life around the camera.
Blood & Believers
A dark, cinematic vampire thriller about belief, control, loyalty, and survival — the first book in The Helix Trilogy.
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Devotion & Deceit
The second book in The Helix Trilogy — a dark, cinematic vampire thriller about loyalty, control, power, and survival.
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Reckoning & Reversal
A dark supernatural thriller finale about vampires, cults, control, and the myth that outlives the monster who created it.
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