Press Release Summary = There's a line in a famous 1970s pop song composed and recorded by Neil Sedaka that goes something like, 'I never met you Betty Grable.'
Well, unlike Neil Sedaka, the author of this article did, several times over, and on the first occasion he got to shake hands with the 1940s icon which was an enormous thrill for a long time fan.
Press Release Body = There's a line in a famous 1970s pop song composed and recorded by Neil Sedaka that goes something like, 'I never met you Betty Grable.'
Well, unlike Neil Sedaka, the author of this article did, several times over, and on the first occasion he got to shake hands with the 1940s icon which was an enormous thrill for a long time fan.
So, what's shaking hands with Betty Grable got to do with writing?
Just this: the author got to thinking about that momentous first meeting the other evening and it galvanized his brain into sketching out an outline for a new book, something he should have done years ago; something that's been languishing in his subconscious for eons.
You see, he met many famous people when he travelled the world as a publicist from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. Apart from the delightful Betty G there were chance encounters with Rory Calhoun (Betty's partner at the time), Frank Sinatra, George Raft, Stan Kenton, Dolores Del Rio, Fess Parker (Davy Crockett), Dusty Springfield, Cilla Black, Mike Sarne, and dozens more.
Oh yeah, (can I hear you say?) anyone could make a claim like that.
That's true, anyone could, but could they also provide photographic evidence of each and every meeting; like pictures of the luminaries and him together?
That is the essential difference; this author can.
So, considering that the majority of these famous people are now either dead or forgotten, will his book get published by a traditional house?
Yes, it will.
Will it make the author a lot of money?
No, it won't.
What it will do though is provide him with a sense of fulfilment and at the same time knock out sales of a few thousand copies in the nostalgia niche.
The secret lies in stringing together a chain of offbeat events with a similar pattern - and it occurs in everyone's life.
Could you come up with such a pattern from your own lifetime experiences?
Think about it - there could be a book in it.
Jim Green is a bestselling author with an ever-growing string of niche non-fiction titles to his credit. View his output at http://1st-creative-writing-course.com
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