The comedian Rodney Dangerfield had a famous one-liner (I get no respect)! As a new author, I got to know what that really meant last summer. While sitting on the beach enjoying a martini with a group of people, I noticed a woman reading a book that I had written (The Godfather connection). I politely turned to her and said, "I wrote that book." She turned to me, rolled her eyes, and snapped, "No, you didn't!" Felling a little awkward, I softly replied, "Why is my name on the cover?" To that, she yelled, "That's not you!" At that, I took another sip at my martini, looked at the ocean before me, and laughed to myself with a proper understanding of Rodney Dangerfield's one-liner, "I get no respect!"
Screenwriting : On the lighter side... by A.j. Lombardi
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Is your picture on the back of your book?
No.
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Then how could she have known you were telling the truth? lol
Steven King talked about meeting a woman who said she didn't like the horror stories he wrote. She told him he should try writing something like The Shawshank Redemption. When he told her did write that she refused to believe him and walked off.
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Well, we now know, approaching a woman reading a selection with, "I wrote that book" is not a good pick-up line.
RE; not having my photo on the book cover -Grandma should have known who I was!!!
Every writer in Hollywood knows that writers don't get any respect. That's a long known 'secret'.