I got the award Friday night

I went to the awards cocktail party at the Algonquin hotel in NYC on 44th st. The award was for my 1st book, Real Woman, 40 & Beyond, it won in the photography/art section of the JM Northern Media, NY book festival, I won the category. As I was introduced, Bruce the General mgr of JM Norther Media, said the judges were going back & forth between this book & my 2nd book; “My Old Toy Box, Imagination not Included”. I actually beat myself, as strange as that maybe I am proud of this accomplishment as a new author.

Many of the authors that spoke were extremely boring, one guy droned on forever it seemed, I was about the 10th speaker & the audience was bored. I went up to the podium and opened with; In my former life I was a cop. I have been shot at stabbed at & wrestled knives away from people attempting suicide. But, none of that prepared me to do this book (all true). It broke them up & woke them up. I informed the audience I am self-taught & when I decided to shoot nudes I picked up Penthouse & Playboy and not for the photos or the “articles”, no I looked at how the photos were lite, composed & the settings . I had them back and at that point I began to talk about the purpose of the book, which is to celebrate women for who they are; not what they are. I spoke about how we created the perfect body in the movies, ads & print media. I told the story on what inspired the book. It was an interview in 1991 about the movie pretty woman. They used a leg double for Julia Roberts in the bathtub nude scene. This pissed me off, I mean really Julia Roberts legs weren’t good enough? This is when I started to work on this book. I did expand on these thoughts a bit and sat down, I spoke approx. 5 minutes, I kept it fresh with a lot of energy.

When I sat down a woman we were sitting with, who I knew is a literary agent with agencies in both Boston & NYC. a very pleasant classy woman. we enjoyed her company we spoke about movies & books. I told her about the novels I wrote & have started, as part of the conversation because she told me that is what she represents. It was just conversation I wasn’t pitching her because I have them on the back burner. I am working on producing a movie now. I do have one, my romance novel, The Lunch, finished. I had not tried to sell myself to her.

After my presentation, she told my wife & my friend Carol that she was going to email me she wanted to see my work. I was like wow, a gift beyond my wildest dreams. That doesn’t mean anything will happen. & what I have gained from it is really exciting. I will see, but it seems my life is on a new path, I plan on taking this journey down that path and enjoying every minute no matter where it takes me. anyone want to come? Only requirement .. you have to be a positive person.

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~ by Bob on June 12, 2011.