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Switching to a Memoir (Cont’d)

On a business level it made sense. My attorney agreed…therefore I agreed.
On a personal level, I loved the idea. It allowed me to tell my story the way it was supposed to be
told. I finally felt 100% good about saying it’s a true story.
I made the changes to the three paragraphs I had embellished and presented the revised version to
my agent. He was ready to get to work, and my attorney was ready to start reviewing the offers.
But after my agent sent out sixteen copies and received “passes,” he felt sending it out to the other
thirty-five would be a waste of his time. Wait…what? Really?
My attorney and I had a conversation and my agent was terminated, but not in the manner a book
like The Boss would have one think. He was fired, not rubbed out.
So on October 1, 2015, three years and five months after its original release, The Boss ALWAYS Sits In
The Back - A Memoir was released as a paperback and things just couldn’t be better.
And that is the when and why I went from having written a “novel” and switched it to a “memoir.” In
the end I’m happier because this was the story it was meant to be.
Always be true to yourself—and your story.

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