I've been around for 3 quarters of a century. I'm too old to spare the time to write my own book. The only way I would consider it is if I would be interviewed in a series of recorded interviews for however long it would take to answer people's questions about Motown, and then have a ghost writer write it up under my direction, with my being involved with the publisher's editor and Ghost Writer in the planning of its scope and areas of concentration, and order of categories covered, and with my periodic and final editing to keep the effort on track, and make sure it is the best it can be in the end. I'm too much invested in spending time with my close family and closest friends [[while we still are around) to be able to spare a few years of work. If my name is to go on something, I want it to be the best it can be.
But from now until I leave this planet, I want to be mostly relaxing, with friends and family talking about old times, drawing drawings for little kids, and travelling a little less [[Can't stop that too much, because my close family and best friends are scattered over 5 countries [[all of which where I still reside part year). I have cut down my work to about 1/3 time, so it's more like a hobby, and I'm now just an ad hoc freelancer, with no set quotas, assignments or deadlines. I finish stories when I can, send them to my editor, and they buy them and pay me a month later, or so.
I don't mind answering questions, or pointing out errors or omissions in published articles, but I have no real energy towards writing a book about Motown, or Soul music, or Ice Hockey, or how life has changed over the last 75 years, or anything else, right now, and I'll probably feel less and less like doing that as the days, weeks, months, and years go by.
I have no problem with someone going through all the active and archived threads on this forum, which involved Motown, and writing "The Soulful Detroit take on Motown's Classical Period". Too bad we lost so many classic threads when Lowell changed from the old forum platform to the new one. But, we still have a lot of great discussions from groups of old-time posters like Ralph, Russ, and all the ex Motown employees, Detroit singers, musicians, producers, sound engineers and record collectors. I think that just like the name of this website and forum is "Soulful Detroit", the original intent was that it waste be mainly about Motown and Detroit Soul music, and around 2003-2004, we broadened it to all Soul music. But some of you might remember that a really high % of the threads were about Motown and other Detroit records, artists, the Detroit music scene during the '60s, and mostly '60s Soul music, when we started out in 2001, and for about the first 3-4 years.
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