Meet Sandi Gelles-Cole
The Memoir of Marilyn Monroe is Sandi Gelles-Cole’s latest foray into fiction, building on her more than 35 years’ as a book editor, ghostwriter, and book doctor. She began her publishing career in 1973 with the David McKay Company and later held editorial positions with Dutton/NAL, Rawson Associates, and Dell. In 1983, she founded her editorial agency, Gelles-Cole Literary Enterprises, which continues to provide editorial services to agents, publishers, and authors. Over the course of her career, she has edited more than 500 novels and nonfiction books, including more than a dozen bestsellers, an Edgar Award nominee, and a BlackBoard Book of the Year award-winner, among others.
The Memoir of Marilyn Monroe is her second novel. Buy Your e-book NOW!
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 THE MEMOIR OF MARILYN MONROE
Edited by Sandi Gelles-Cole Copyright 2011 by Sandi Gelles-Cole All rights reserved. Published by Gelles-Cole Literary Enterprises at Smashwords P.O. Box 341 Woodstock, NY 12498 www.LiteraryEnterprises.com |
WHAT GIVES ME THE RIGHT TO PUT MARILYN’S THOUGHTS ON PAPER?
OUT OF ALL THE HUNDREDS OF BOOKS ABOUT MARILYN WHY BUY THIS?
This book happened to me rather than the other way around. I started it so long ago that it was originally planned for her 80th birthday.
But the more I learned about her the more I identified with the woman who was inside the movie star. I related to the woman who was struggling to become. For at the end of her Hollywood years, this is very clear-- Marilyn wanted to be more than she was. She wanted to be more than a sex goddess and she wanted to live her life on a different plane.
I’m no sex goddess, believe me. I’m a senior citizen. But I’ve been drunk. I’ve been crazy; I’ve married men for the wrong reasons; I believed it was possible I might die of loneliness. Lucky for me I was redeemed.
Lots of people, particularly women, probably feel like me. Marilyn didn’t have to act like she felt that way because underneath the glam and gorgeous red lips she was just like us and longed for what we need. Read about her and it becomes apparent that everything she did, she did for love. It wasn’t a mistake that Marilyn’s fans continue to adore her because she loved us just as much. Marilyn’s life was a love affair with the audience, she loved us and she needed us.
I gave myself permission to write her memoirs, what she would be like if she lived among us now because underneath the sequins, champagne parties, and , of course, diamonds, Marilyn is a part of us and a piece of her still lives.
This book happened to me rather than the other way around. I started it so long ago that it was originally planned for her 80th birthday.
But the more I learned about her the more I identified with the woman who was inside the movie star. I related to the woman who was struggling to become. For at the end of her Hollywood years, this is very clear-- Marilyn wanted to be more than she was. She wanted to be more than a sex goddess and she wanted to live her life on a different plane.
I’m no sex goddess, believe me. I’m a senior citizen. But I’ve been drunk. I’ve been crazy; I’ve married men for the wrong reasons; I believed it was possible I might die of loneliness. Lucky for me I was redeemed.
Lots of people, particularly women, probably feel like me. Marilyn didn’t have to act like she felt that way because underneath the glam and gorgeous red lips she was just like us and longed for what we need. Read about her and it becomes apparent that everything she did, she did for love. It wasn’t a mistake that Marilyn’s fans continue to adore her because she loved us just as much. Marilyn’s life was a love affair with the audience, she loved us and she needed us.
I gave myself permission to write her memoirs, what she would be like if she lived among us now because underneath the sequins, champagne parties, and , of course, diamonds, Marilyn is a part of us and a piece of her still lives.
--Sandi Gelles-Cole
May 2011, Woodstock, New York
May 2011, Woodstock, New York
