It took a long time (50 years) to write this book and get it published by Travelers' Tales. For there were so many things I needed to figure out concerning what was important about the things that happened to me over my years of hitchhiking around the world via 50+ nations with a backpack, playing my own kind of music on a 150-year-old Andalusian guitar.
I played personally for Pablo Picasso, King Frederic IX, King Bhumipol and Queen Sirikit of Siam, a tribe of Australian Aborigines, a Spanish duchess and an Indian Maharajah, was attacked and nearly killed by a mob of beggars from whom I was rescued by a bold youthful sage with a cutlass, was then taken across the Arabian Desert by Bedouin champagne smugglers in their camel caravan, and I spent some time touring with grenadine dancing gypsies playing flamenco for them.
Encouraged by a warm reception ("Kin" became a Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award nominee), I've written a 2.5-hour movie script that works--at least for me. Of course it will be expensive to make this 100% true story into a movie because there are so many locations worldwide. But I'm not in a hurry because the story is timeless--being a tale about the love I found everywhere and my faith that love governs. Love and faith--our two most beautiful and powerful attributes.
Would love to hear from Stage 32 members with helpful ideas.
