You Blew It Before, So Don’t Blow It Again!
Also, echoing that theme from an Elton John song, I’m saying: “I’m still standing.”
I’m producing, adapting, in fact I’m better than I’ve ever been, and as a best-selling author, that’s pretty good.
There is a meta-message in this, an overarching statement: Inexorably, I will find a way to prevail, and if I decide to promote a title, my judgment is worth affirming, not fighting.
Of course, having said all of this, I will turn-off certain publishers. But then, after they have passed on the project de jour, I can remind them in the fullness of time that they had a shot at that one, too.
A very successful, outrageous car dealer who used to wrestle bears, tigers, and snakes in his TV ads, gave a sober, low-key and 100% straight-up interview about his marketing methods, that I had the pleasure to hear.
He said, in the quietest, least boastful
