Hey folks, Harry here. For quite some time now, way more time than I care to remember, I've been working with a couple of wonderful writers on a book for Time/Warner Publishing. Gosh, I guess the past two years or so.
I can't begin to tell you all the steps to getting a book published. It really is an amazing process. Working with Mark Ebner and Paul Cullum via email and in person for these last couple of years has been quite invigorating as a writer. They really helped in enabling me to meet my deadlines, while I could still update and keep the site active daily for all of you.
The book is called AINT IT COOL: HOLLYWOOD'S REDHEADED STEP-CHILD SPEAKS OUT.
I set out to write this book for a couple of reasons. Primary amongst these was frustration about never getting to really lay out the stories about me, why I do what I do, what it is like to be elevated from the rank of just another film fan to being a known personality. It is about what I have learned in the last several years about the industry. It is about the problems with the system and how these can be worked out. It is quite frankly the heart of a film lover between two covers. And last there is one more reason. I wanted to write a book that made the reader fall infectiously in love with film again in a non-cynical way. I set out to create a vaccine to innoculate the readers from the disease of hopelessness.
Plus, thanks to working with two writers that can spell and use punctuation, you'll finally be able to read something that came out of my head without having your eyes bleed!
I guess the funniest part of all of this is that I get an email yesterday from Shannon Coffey (the guy that created the Harry Knowles Media Watch) to let me know that I have a pre-order page on AMAZON.COM. I freaked. I hadn't heard a word about that being done. I hadn't a clue that you could pre-order my book. Hell, I hadn't even announced the writing deal because I wanted to prove to people that you could have six figure writing deal with a company associated with one of the largest film outlets in the world, TIME/WARNER, and still be incredibly hard on them if they did something stupid worthy of criticism... and with very few exceptions, the film unit of Warner Brothers has maintained their exemplary standard of stupidity, even when, on those rare occassions, they had smart films.
So here ya go... Harry Knowles' first book and it is being published by a real book company that thinks that it is pretty darn worthwhile... and hey! It looks like it will even be available in other countries (those deals are being negotiated right now) meaning that some people even feel it is good enough to be in ANOTHER LANGUAGE!!! God, I hope I don't have to write the translations... ugh...
If you buy the book pre-order, please do it through my affiliate link below, as that way... heck, the website can make a little money on it's own to help pay for hosting (as that advance from the book sure as heck didn't last as long as you would think, damn taxes, damn hosting fees, damn food... foooooood..... fooooooooooooooood)
And yes, this does mean that I will be doing a book tour next year, and that you'll probably have to put up with me on various talk shows. I know, I know... It's worth it, because I've got my own CARD CATALOG NUMBER!!!!!! I think you'll find quite a bit of cool stories, and yes, I even list finally for you people my favorite films and why. I'm sure I'll be called a knuckle head for a couple of the choices, but heck... we're all knuckleheads... right? Right? Hello?
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