Biggest dream: sell enough books to leave Melissa better off than we are now.

@Devney Perry I'll do my best. July 10th will be 36 years together. Melissa has always been the miracle in my life from day one. Thank you for your kind words. They are truly appreciated.

Visibility, clarity, trust, sales, or connection: Yes, all five. But the first two,, in that order. Thank you for the guidance...

My wife and I have decided to become authors. I've been an actor for fifty years, and Melissa almost as long. I built a website for a theater company that I owned called Theatrgroup. The spelling you see is correct. At our theatre, I was teaching acting to a class of twenty and giving the members of the workshop an opportunity to do plays there. Because so many wanted to do plays, each time I would ask "who wants to do a play", I ended up having to write the plays myself. I wrote four original three-act plays for a cast of twelve each. We started dabbling in the Internet in 1997. I learned HTML and launched a website for the theatre company. At that site, I included 15 "Method Acting Procedures" as taught to me directly by the father of method acting himself, Lee Strasberg. I maintained that site for almost 35 years on my own server, offering free information and advice to actors around the world. I gathered almost ten thousand Guest Book Entries from actors and those wanting to be actors from everywhere on the planet. I'm seventy-seven now and decided I wanted to write a book about acting and about the method procedures. I dismantled my website and began writing the book about method and procedures. That's not what happened. What began as an instruction manual ended up a 589-page journey about my life as an actor--from the very beginning until I finally retired because of my health. I didn't know anything about being an author, but I'm beginning to learn. I discovered what I had written was essentially a semi-autobiographical memoir. I self-published through Amazon KDP and Draft2Digital, as paperback, Kindle and eBook.I also published this week through IngramSpark. Microsoft Word tortured me for a year and a half with formatting. I learned more about Word than I thought was possible. I used Kindle Create for the e-book. The book has been out since April 14th, I think. I can't really remember. I'd have to look it up. I took out an ad on Facebook, and something happened there that both excited me and confused me at the same time. My click-through rate with that ad was 25.5%. I was told that was exceptionally high. My daily budget was $5, and each click was costing me $.02. When someone would click on the ad, they would go to my revised website at theatrgroup.com. That was my landing page. They would stay there for six seconds, and that's the last anyone would hear of them.