Tuesday, January 14, 2014

New & Improved (I know you'll love it)

Once again it's time to market my book,  the product of  many hours at the computer resurrecting the memories of another lifetime.  It was like digging down deep into portals of the brain that have been laid dormant for years.  Similar to looking for that one photo you know you have buried deep in a box, and you remember seeing it once or twice over the last 40 years.  But is it still in that box?  Or did you throw it away because you didn't want to remember that time of your life?  When I decided to write this little book, I got over my shame very quickly. Oh yes, I lived a life only depicted in dark novels and R-rated films but people love to read about something unusual or unique.  About a time when someones personal memoirs reveal a life they can only imagine. I made the intention not to get too heavy with events best kept interred in the place of, "for my eyes only."  Listen, I want to share with you, who ever will read my book some extraordinary times in the life of a hippie/groupie teenager. Here it is available on Amazon.com    http://amzn.to/1lrOcOY

 I now honor that poor, young, lost soul, looking for love in all the wrong places, and I expose the whole sordid past.  People still listen and revere the music of Jimi Hendrix, Steppenwolf,  Janis Joblin and Big Brother & the Holding Co., and especially Neil Young.  Musicians I rubbed shoulders with, and to be honest other parts of my body.  Okay, I'm not gonna get too explicit.  I just want to get my book out there so I can finally get the attention it needs to make a film.  I am full aware of the well-known fact sex sells but it's really not the way I want to go.  "If the truth be told", the money that is required to bring this story to the big screen, realistically, is in the millions. And the public needs a film like this!!  I sometimes go on IMDB just to see what the budget was for some pretty awful films and it is quite alarming.  I used to say, mostly when I viewed one of these disappointing projects with their enormous budget, they could have fed a small African nation for a year with what they spent.  But I'm getting off track.  I know it will be quite expensive to make this story into a film and I actually did make a short 9:13 minute showcase reel for $6000. For now this little film will have to do until I can interest a big studio in Hollywood to bankroll a full-length feature film.  Here is a link to the video on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=994x1RMaOFg  if you need a little fun and entertaining distraction from your work day.  And btw, I have a great tagline:
 Free-love still came at a price!

There will come a time I'll have to move back to Los Angeles and make the rounds, write the query letters, do the pitches, etc.  I may be in my late 60's before all this comes to fruition but who cares.  By then I'll even have a sequel to the film How I Survived the Sixties, and it will be called How I Survived MY Sixties.  I may have mentioned that before. And by then Hollywood may even have the love and respect us older ladies deserve.  I really enjoy writing this blog and I think it helps improve my writing.  Please enjoy the video and buy the book.  I know you'll love reading it.  I recently added some more text/experiences.  I love the idea of self-editing my own books.  I can always go back and change or add something.  Or even delete if that is the case.  So for now I'll be patient and see how it all pans out.  But I'm definitely "workin' it."

 "God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame." - Emily Dickenson

2 comments:

  1. Pilar,
    Laura and I are putting together an order from Amazon, so I will finally be getting your book! I'm so looking forward to reading it. Are you moving back to LA? Thought I read that in one of the comments here. Your blog site is beautiful! Keep me posted on everything.
    Ann

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    1. Hello Ann, I just read this reply you posted on the 19th. Yes, I indeed have the intention of going back to LA , mostly to get my films made. I hope you enjoy reading my book. Doesn't look like it's selling too well but you know how those things go. I can't wait to read another one of your books. Glad you are taking the time to read my blogs, I had no idea how much I love writing. I hope i can keep improving. God bless and thanks, Pilar

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