Ever daydreamed about how your hometown will react to you becoming an international best selling author?
Ok, let’s imagine you have hit the literary big time. Your book is an international best seller, film rumours are rife and social media has gone into meltdown over your literary masterpiece.
How does your hometown react to your newfound stardom?
Here are some possible reactions.
- Your favourite local restaurant keeps a table free at all times in case you decide to drop by and order some food.
- You are inundated with selfie requests in the high street, whilst doing a bit of shopping.
- Your local hair or beauty salon have a signed framed photo of you on the wall and name a beauty treatment or hairstyle after you! Sigh!
- Cool local people who’ve happily ignored you for years start hosting parties and ask you to be the guest of honour.
- Your favourite local coffee shop creates a special ‘express lane’ just for you, so your coffee can be served quickly.
- You never have to worry about not receiving Xmas or birthday cards again.
- You are asked to give talks at your local bookshop about how you became a famous novelist, how blogging helped improve your writing and how your Twitter addiction drove you to insanity.
- You are inundated with local freebies and asked to endorse your favourites. It is not long before your local butcher has a poster of you in the window, chomping on one of his pork pies, with the words ‘[enter your name, international best selling author thinks they are yum!”
- You are asked to switch on the town’s Christmas lights *squeal!* How exciting!
- Your pet is given special treatment in the town’s pet grooming salon. Sigh!
I am so excited about becoming an international best selling author – turning on the Christmas lights whilst modelling my own eyebrow treatment – sigh!
Have a fabulous Thursday!
The police station takes my photo down … freedom to come back to town!
LOL!!! Thank you Eric
Ha. Good one!
Yeah…as if…(My rejection pile must be getting to me – this feels like an impossible quest!)
You will be one of these famous authors who got rejected…but kept going..and one of your rejected books will be snapped up and bingo! Famous!! Let me know what celeb life is like 🙂
I loved this!!! Inspirational 🙂
Thank you! Happy Thursday 🙂
Happy Thursday 🙂
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Are YOU READY for the FAME? 😀
Just to switch on Xmas lights would do it for me!
LOLOL
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Ha ha… lovely thought.. but I have to say that the closest I got was someone telling me they had googled me! They did not pass comment on what they found! Lovely post to keep us motivated thanks Blondewritemore….
Thank you 🙂 Glad I am motivating today!
Absolutely Lucy.. great job.. x
lol….I’m afraid that the only reaction I would likely get is…”Who???” 🙂
Yep – me too – but we can dream!
I’m from San Jose, California, and in Silicon Valley, home of many smart people, the bar for accomplishment is almost as high as the stratospheric real estate prices. I’ll have to write several best sellers before they notice me. 😀
Or move.
Done, I’ve been in Santa Cruz for over 20 years. 😉
Ha. 😀
Oh dear Robert – you either need to move or write several best sellers which are turned into blockbuster films…good luck with that!
Thanks, Lucy! I started a live televised drama show here in Santa Cruz to help get my writing out there, partly because more people watch TV than read. 😀
Thank you! 🙂
Don’t beleive a word of it Lucy. When I was stupid enough to allow them to put a pic of me at the top of my weekly column I was more often slammed up against the frozen pea counter by readers telling me they loved / hated what I had written and then begging me to ghost write / read their mss etc etc. Not fun at all. 🙂
Mmmm sounds interesting! When are we going to do this author interview? I have a slot free for 24th Sept? Fancy it?
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Definitely what I’m looking forward to!
Thank you for the re-blog! Happy Thursday
We can only dream, Lucy! 🙂
I love dreaming…I could do it full time..
Hmmm… you and me both. 🙂
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Thanking you kindly 🙂
Since I live out in the middle of nowhere in a small town, I doubt they would do anything. My hometown where I grew up might be a little different, but I’m sure not much. We already have a few Hollywood stars that came out of my high school. I will say I’d probably get more support from people on my social media. LOL.
We can but dream! I live in rural surroundings but I am determined to whip up some support for when I am famous…just need to work on the best seller…
I best dust off my 1/2 ass draft and polish my sequined mini skirt before next Christmas! I have new goals. Btw what’s a pork pie?
Tracey
LOL – do you not have pork pies where you are? It could be any sort of meat based pie…
We have Runzas, and pierogies which I think might be similar. Also chicken pot pies which are awesomely good, but usually made in a 9×9 inch pan and makes 9 servings.
Probably, I just like to question odd sayings coming out of the U.K. 😄
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Does it make me a bad person if my dream is moving away and not acknowledging that I lived there? All the cool people who never had the time for me before? Not going to know them later. Ha ha
LOL! Terrific column! But you forgot to mention the local deli creating and naming a sandwich after you — invariably some variation on the combination of pastrami, swiss cheese, ham and thousand island dressing (made even sweeter by the fact that you’ve been a vegan for the past decade). We should take a lunch and compare notes, dawwling. Just have your people call my people, and I’ll have Wolfgang hold a table for us. (I can get away with mouthing all this drivvel because I live near Hollywood.) Luv you, Babe.
OMG!!! *deep breaths* – can I add and link to you – this is amazing!!!
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We can all wish. The coffee thing sounds great.
Yay! Glad you liked that John 🙂
🙂
Hmm, daring to dream. 🙂
I do it regularly 🙂
For me, it’s dream on! Maybe one day… however, the members of my high school class buy my books in numbers.
Obviously, I need to lower the bar. I recently heard of a village with just 2 inhabitants. Perhaps I should move there. It’ll be just my luck, of course, when I find out that one of them is Stephen King…
Lol! Yes these will be BAU for you 🙂
Took me a while to figure out what you were talking about, what with you being one of the cool kids and me a nerd and all that, but yes, spending all day with just two people around will be BAU for me!
You are already a Greek literary celeb in my eyes so all these will be business as usual…
You really know how to put a smile on my face. Now all I have to do is get my neighbors to read your blog…
And they will say (cue my best Greek accent) “but Nicholas you switched on the town’s Christmas lights last year and there is a signed framed photo of you in the Barbers!” 😉
Oh my, it’s like you’re here!
Oh, to wonder…
I know – been daydreaming (and not writing) all week..tut tut!
Modelling eyebrows 😂 Geoff would have a field day – he calls me eyebrows! 😂😂
Can you imagine the ‘Sacha Black eyebrow look?’
Absolutely yes to #5!!! And add in free refills of my lattes? Oh, and PSL (Pumpkin Spice Latte) year round!! Also, Starbucks CEO has to call me before all decisions so I can save him from himself!!
PS: Add Carmel Mochas back to the menu!!
Oh my goodness how cool are these!
My caffeine addiction rearing its ugly head! 😜😂
I wouldn’t go out of my house,
And if I would I’d go hiding my face XD
Lol! Thanks for reading 🙂
Hahaha I love this post !!!! It’s amazing what we can create in our lives, for ourselves, but just thinking about our own success and seeing it happen 💕
Hey thx for reading 🙂