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FUN CHILDHOOD ACTIVITIES
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a period of about three months, wrote the whole thing. Then I sent
it to Hyperion. They had published Simplify Your Life, so I thought,
naively, that they would want to publish my book. They returned it
with a form letter saying that they didn’t accept unsolicited manu-
scripts. I could tell that a page hadn’t even been turned.
I realized at that point that I might need an agent but
didn’t do anything at the time. It was a few months later that I
received a call from an editor at Scribner who had read an arti-
cle about me in The Observer, a local New York paper, and asked
if I would write a book about coaching. When I said I already
had, he nearly panicked until I explained that I was still work-
ing on the manuscript. He asked me to drop it off at his office
and said he’d get back to me after he had a chance to read it. In
