Plan C

A screwball comedy with a heart. Thelma & Louise go to Europe. A revenge on midlife crisis.

Plan A: We grow up, get married, have babies, white picket fence.

Plan B: Mortgages, marriages, mistresses, divorce, my kids, his kids, stepkids, blended families. College tuition. Empty nest. Empty soul.

Plan C: Cabernet, passports, jet lag, Ambien, Europe. Who needs reality?

Until we realize reality can't be avoided. And truth is, we don't want to avoid it. We are a nation of underdogs—a society of hope. Plan C is accepting life as it comes, with no plan at all.

Once upon a time there was a divorced, single mother named Libby Crockett, living and working her fingers to the bone on Cape Cod. Her Plan A had failed, and now she dreamed of a new life and a new love—her Plan B. And Plan B worked! It brought her to glamorous New York to a new man, a new life … and his expensive ex, his out-of-control kids, and the biggest recession in seventy years. Was this really what Libby had been dreaming of? Maybe it was time for Plan C …

Lois Cahall began her career as a newspaper journalist in Boston, Massachusetts and as an associate producer for Nick and Judith Krantz, pursuing true-life stories for CBS TV movies.

This is Ms. Cahall’s twelfth year as “The Screen Queen” (www.screenqueen.com), a syndicated radio personality covering the movie beat with an eye toward educating the “Bus Stop Mom” about age-appropriate family viewing of the latest Hollywood releases. Her broadcasts over the Saga Communications network reach more than 1 million listeners every week.

Stepping outside of her persona of “The Screen Queen” Ms. Cahall writes about women’s empowerment issues for women’s magazines - including Redbook, Seventeen, Cosmo Girl, SELF, Marie Claire, Reader’s Digest, Men’s Journal and RED in the U.K.

In 2010 Ms. Cahall pursued her mission of addressing issues in women’s daily lives as a host of TV’s ABC News’ Top Priority and occasional host of Good Morning America Now.

With an ever-growing trend towards the food & wine phenomenon, Ms. Cahall has written several articles for Bon Appetit magazine, and in 2010 was named Editor-In-Chief of The Lichine Report for Chateau D’Esclans in Provence, France. The rosé was recently voted number one by Wine Spectator.

Ms. Cahall has completed her first novel, Plan C: Just in Case, published by Bloomsbury and available January 2012. It is edited by Simon Beaufoy, The Full Monty screenwriter nominated for an Oscar for his screenplay 127 Hours. He won both the Oscar and Golden Globe for his runaway script Slumdog Millionaire.

Ms. Cahall now divides her life between New York City and London, and is represented by Inkwell Management in New York City and PFD’s Caroline Michel in the UK.

"Racy, insouciant, uproarious, plugged-in and turned-on, Lois Cahall's Plan C is a breathless romp that knows all the best places to go, the worst people to avoid, and the perfect wisecrack to top off every occasion. It's a comedy precariously balanced on the awareness that the ground is shifting beneath the clicky heels of its sexy heroine, Libby Crockett, and the indignities of age are lying in ambush, ready to march up the driveway. But until then, kick back, raise a glass, and enjoy the ride."