I had been guest-starring on various talk shows both regional and nationwide and was in demand in person also. I found I possess natural abilities for such more public forms of discourse than that to which I had accustomed myself already. Too, I made a determination that I actually responded favourably to it on a personal enjoyment level. I discovered that speaking my writing into a tape recorder—different microphones for different followings, I was beginning to learn—was not contrarian to talking for the cameras, but of course I was wrong (I admit this freely). I located an agent to represent my enterprise and she counselled me on selecting the most advantage-filled offer. A writer was engaged to copy out the contents of the tapes and put the words in grammatical order, but he quit in the middle, indicating he could not rein in his jealousies despite my free assistance as to how he might attain growth in this area. The next one quit also, but she was not a mature individual, so I was not surprised.
