is Aunt Bessie's How to Survive a Day Job While
Pursuing the Creative Life, a Joel Eisenberg
presentation and a publication of Topos Books. It
is currently available in bookstores and at
www.amazon.com. Work is currently under way on
the sequel: You're Too Smart to Go Down Stupid
(release date as yet undetermined).
Work on the Bessie project included transcription
of participant interviews (including Clive Barker,
Stephen J. Cannell, Father Andrew Greeley, Alan
Dean Foster, Larry Hagman, Kelly Lange, Robert
Wise, Stuart Woods and many more), plus two
copy editing passes and formatting of the
manuscript in Microsoft Word in preparation for
translation to PDF file and eventual publication.
(also available at www.amazon.com), the book
that ostensibly inspired the writing contest among
friends that resulted in Mary Shelley's authorship
of Frankenstein.
Deborah Jackson Americanized the spelling of
the British translation, updated the punctuation
and formatted the manuscript for publication.
The text and paragraphing remain virtually
untouched in order to preserve the flavor and
style of the language of the period.
Joel Eisenberg is a published writer in several
media (film, television, magazines, commercial
spots); he is also the Conference Director of the
annual San Diego Film and Screenwriting Festival.
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