Memories of a Soap Opera Writer

The writer behind Luke and Laura’s wedding reminisces about life on the set of daytime television’s highest rated show of all time, General Hospital.

Turn the clock back to the set of General Hospital in 1981 with Joseph DiMona, a head writer during the Luke and Laura wedding season of the most-watched soap opera in the history of television. A bestselling suspense novelist, DiMona shares the improbable personal story of how ABC hired him to craft ingenious plotlines for the Emmy Award–winning soap. Taking readers inside the frenzied weeks leading up to Luke and Laura’s wedding, DiMona reveals how actor Tony Geary (Luke) really felt about the fans’ fervor for the show that captured college campuses all over the nation, and his partnership with the raffish Scorpio. He details the famous appearances of Demi Moore and Hollywood doyenne Elizabeth Taylor, and follows the havoc that was wreaked on set and in the writer’s room when Genie Francis (Laura) announced she intended to leave the show right after the infamous nuptials. Filled with warmth and affection for all of the cast and crew and witty stories about their camaraderie as well as the pleasures and challenges of creating such fantastical storylines as The Ice Princess Adventure and many others, Memories of a Soap Opera Writer is a must-read for soap opera fans and General Hospital devotees everywhere.