Write Your Book Now

A Proven System to Start and FINISH the Book You've Always Wanted to Write!

Gene Perret

• Publisher: Quill Driver Books
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN:
  9781610350716
• Subtopic: Business Biographies

Even celebrities die—and he was the man who picked up the bodies! Allan Abbott ran the leading hearse, mortuary, and funeral services company in Hollywood and got an unprecedented glimpse of how celebrities really live and die. The Forrest Gump of the funeral industry, Abbott was everywhere celebrities died, from helping to prepare Marilyn Monroe's body for burial to standing next to Christopher Walken at Natalie Wood's funeral. Now in his memoir "Pardon My Hearse," Abbott tells the rags-to-shroud story of how we went from a young man with a hearse to the funeral driver to the stars—a rollicking, unexpectedly hilarious story of glamorous funerals, mishaps with corpses, and true-life glimpses of celebrities at their most revealing moments. "Pardon My Hearse" is an eye-opening look at secret Hollywood from the man who literally knows where the bodies are buried.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Introduction: What This Book Is and Is Not
• Chapter 1: So What’s Keeping You From Writing Your Book?
• Chapter 2: No One Can Write a Book
• Chapter 3: Three Important Attitudes
• Chapter 4: Define Your Book
• Chapter 5: Start Chipping Away
• Chapter 6: Refine and Organize Your List of Chapters
• Chapter 7: Describe Each of Your Chapters
• Chapter 8: Write a Chapter
• Chapter 9: How Big a Book Do You Plan to Write?
• Chapter 10: Plan Your Writing Schedule
• Chapter 11: Get Your Book to the Market Place
• Chapter 12: Writing Your Book Chapter by Chapter
• Chapter 13: Stick to Your Schedule
• Chapter 14: Rewriting Your Manuscript
• Chapter 15: Preparing Your Manuscript for Publication
• Chapter 16: You’re Done!
• Appendix: Some Support Might Help
• About the Author