September 12, 2004

• So…as of yet, not many people have read my book.  However, I’ll fill you in on a small part of it.  I quote a book called “Quarterlife Crisis,” a book about the struggles of college students to make the transition to the real world.  My book, “College Daze,” is about how we can improve college, to ensure thousands of people don’t have to go through a quarterlife crisis, and instead can spend their 20′s doing jobs they love, and enjoying life as much, if not more, than they did in college. 

  
  

  As luck would have it, one of the authors was a graduate of Wash U., where I went to school.  However, despite several e-mails to the author, I have not heard back.  The author, Abby Wilner, took this small idea, and made it into a book that was a New York Times bestseller, put her on Oprah, the Today Show, and basically became a very big deal.  Her book made me confidant that with enough perseverance and the right connections, i could achieve equal success in getting my message into mainstream America.

  
  

  Well…I was out tonight at a vodka bar called Sub Zero, and ran into a friend who is in grad school at Wash U., an economics and psych person who has an interesting study going on about the effect of sex on the bargaining power between men and women.  Anyways…i told him about my book and my aspirations, and as luck would have it, his friend who was at the bar, was roommates with Abby Wilner.  So…I spoke with this friend, and she will help me hopefully make the contact that could propel my book up to the next level.  Yes…St. Louis has been treating me well.  My book is now officially in two bookstores, although in limited amounts, and I will follow the advice of a fellow-blogger, and will get my book out to be reviewed.  Well…it’s 3:30, just finished eating chicken fingers and fries, reliving my college days.  Time to crash.

  
  

  -dan

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