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[flakmagnet]

 

IMPORTANT NOTE: AS OF SEPT. 20TH, THE BOOK HAS PRINTING PROBLEMS. I WILL JUMP BACK ON WHEN THEY ARE FIXED. IT'S A MATTER OF

PRINTING THE COLOR PHOTOS IN COLOR, INSTEAD OF HOW THEY BEGAN PRINTING THEM IN BLACK AND WHITE. THANK YOU FOR BEING PATIENT.

DAVID

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With Steve’s kind permission, I’m happy to announce that a book I have just completed has just been made available for preorder.
Although there is nothing about this forum that implies a book about feature films will be pertinent, because I am an inhabitant of DP, I wanted the people who contribute to this forum to know.

“Best Seat in the House,  An Assistant Director Behind the Scenes of Feature Films” covers thirty-three years of working on movies starting from the early 70s and winding up in the early 2000s.

The book has just been made available today (Aug. 25th), for preorder
and will be released on September 19th.

https://bit.ly/3wuU34e for paperback

https://bit.ly/3KjeIht  for hard cover

Okay, back to your regularly scheduled gold discussions - and thank you.

[GhostMiner]

Congrats!

[Steve Herschbach]

David was kind enough to let me read a pre-release copy of his new book. The thing I loved is he is not using his position to dish dirt on people. Just the opposite. His anecdotes on famous people reveal them often as kind, funny, but mostly just real humans. At worst maybe a bit difficult for being genius. Dave has lived quite a life, and I’m glad he is sharing some of it with us in this way. Great read, highly recommended. 

[jasong]

Great body of work, good job finishing the book David. It'll be an interesting read. 

I'm sure you already know, but Back to the Future was like..."the movie" when I was growing up, generation-defining. It single handedly got me and my friends into skateboarding, playing music, got me to see my first concert (Huey Lewis), got me stoked on science and adventure, and started my love affair with lifted Toyota trucks long before I could drive. I doubt there was a single kid my age who didn't see that movie, a true piece of pop culture history. 

[phrunt]

Plenty of decent films on that list.  Congratulations on the book, sounds like it will do very well.

[flakmagnet]

Thanks phrunt, it's an amazing process in the face of 2 thousand books a day being released on Amazon.

A very steep learning curve to figure out how to get its publication out past friends and family.

But the good thing is, after almost a decade of writing on and off, it's done.

[Drillerdave]

Congratulations Flak, wishing you the best. 

[paradiceau]

Congratulations David,

I suspect the book will do well as most folks are curious about the movie business, the actors and how the whole thing works.

It will give the reader an interesting behind the scenes view of the moving parts which I know little about but always wanted to have insight into.

With decades of experience and observations to draw from it will be a fascinating read I reckon.

Jeff

Ordered!

 

[Swegin]

Congratulations I'll be in for two books.   I just ran you thru IMDB and I was amazed how many movies you had your hands in that I watched and enjoyed.  Yes I even enjoyed Empire of the Ants.  LOL  Cheesy but still enjoyable.

[flakmagnet]

1 hour ago, Swegin said:

  Yes I even enjoyed Empire of the Ants.

Well Swegin, you may be the only person who saw that film. I did write a story about it.
It was one whacky show. (thanks)