Sonny Brewer - Don't Quit Your Day Job: Acclaimed Authors and the Day Job They Quit |
Sonny Brewer, a true "writer's writer", has enticed his friends and fellow authors to tell us about he day jobs they quit to devote themselves to their true calling….and we're talking about the biggest names in the business.
We know you can't wait to read the personal words of John Grisham, Pat Conroy, Rick Bragg and William Gay describing their work before books. Hear how Connie May Fowler, Daniel Wallace, Cassandra King and Tim Gautreaux earned a living before their blockbuster hits.
Before you start reading, try to match the author with the job. Which of the 24 profiled celebreties worked on the railroad, drove a garbage truck, fought fires, delivered the mail, or was a spy.
You won't have to guess which one was a successful singer, cut an album, fronted for Melanie, Richie Haven and others, and played a couple of Birmingham's hot spots in the early seventies. The leader of the pack, Sonny Brewer himself, will move away from the signing table for a few minutes at 5:00, grab his guitar and sing and play his big hit, "I Miss Mississippi". You can then decide whether he became a writer because of readers's demand for the best-selling stack of books he's written and edited - or music lovers demands that he quit his day job!
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- Street:
- Alabama Booksmith
- Additional:
- 2626 19th Place South
- City:
- Birmingham ,
- Province:
- Alabama
- Postal Code:
- 35209-1918
- Country:
- United States
Rick Bragg in the Movies
Even though you weren’t able to attend the September 26, 2011, sold-out world premiere of Alabama’s Rick Bragg: Out of the Dirt, here’s your opportunity to view the entire movie at home, as well as much bonus footage not seen in the original documentary.
Listen in on distinguished Alabamaians, local friends and family tell inside tales on Rick as a child and award-winning best-selling author. Rick also gives his life’s philosophy in many scenes. Find out about his mother’s poetry; hear his aunt tell of dressing him as a girl when he was a tot. If ever there was a priceless gift, this is it.
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