There were two main reasons for my NY visit. One, to do that video about “Female Nomad and Friends” for the bookstore sites online; Crown Publishers asked for that. The other reason was to meet with Mary Katzke who is a documentary filmmaker planning a round-the-world trip with her ten-year-old son. She and I are trying to come up with a film that will be a good fit for LGG. Any ideas are welcome. I w0uld love to come up with something as wonderful as Matt Harding’s dance.
About that video: I’m definitely not going to be a film star when I grow up. We must have done twenty takes of me looking at the camera and trying to remember what I had written. I was pretty bad!! I never did get it right from beginning to end. Jay (the marketing person on the anthology) and Holly (the videographer) were so patient and reassuring….but I felt totally inept. You will have a chance to see it when they put it up on the sites. I’ll let you know when that happens. I may not even look at it! They are going to have to do a lot of cutting and pasting. At one point I suggested they get a gorgeous actress to sit there and say, “Hi, I’m Rita Golden Gelman.” Let her memorize my words. I could go for that. Thin, beautiful, and capable of talking for two minutes without blowing the lines!!
I did find out from Jay that all pre-ordering of “Female Nomad and Friends” will be credited as sales during that first week! So you can order the book from an online site today and it will go toward that best-seller goal that I mentioned in my last post. He encouraged me to encourage you to order it now. If you go to my website (www.ritagoldengelman.com), you can click on whichever “store” you would like to support, and buy the book today!!
About that rgg site. I finally got it back and I will be putting daily ( or at least frequent) posts on lots of topics. Serious, silly, and everything in between. It’s been stagnant since July when my last computer crashed and the software I was using to edit it didn’t move to my new computer. I couldn’t edit it until four days ago when I finally broke down and bought the software and hired someone to install it. Now I need to build the traffic it once had. So please, go check it out. http://www.ritag0ldengelman.com. (Sorry…I don’t know how to turn that into a link.! Please don’t let that stop you from going there! ) I am going to stop this post right this minute and write the rest of this message on the rgg site. I’ll talk more about what NY was like for me this time. I lived in Greenwich Village for eighteen years, from 1958, when I got out of college, escaped Bridgeport, CT, and went to the big city to seek my fortune, until 1976 when our whole family moved to LA. This will be continued at: www.ritagoldengelman.com. See you there.
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