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Just a small cookbook update
Feb. 7th, 2013 10:10 am So for some new friends, you may not know I've had this little fantasy of working on a cookbook with NKOTB. Well, particularly one of them.
Danny is a member of NKOTB. He's also incredibly healthy and well, ripped. Like holy crap. I'm really not into the buff look. I like 'em lean and toned but not like Bam! but if I was, I'd probably be into this:
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He's always posting on twitter about the things he cooks at home and fans are always saying "You need to make a cookbook!" You know that saying that goes something like, "I used to think 'someone should do something about that' and then I realized I was that someone." Well I took the next step. I set up a facebook page and my friend set up a gmail account for people to submit recipes. I got NKOTB fans to like the facebook page (32 likes so far) and I update it with ideas for categories, recipes, etc. I encourage everyone to submit their favorite recipes especially those that remind them of NKOTB (for instance Donnie has said his favorite drink is a Bloody Mary).
I contacted a woman who is the director of his charity for his mother called Remember Betty. Danny's mother passed away some time ago from breast cancer and Remember Betty (RB) donates money in her name to the Susan G. Komen foundation. Danny also donates all the proceeds from his solo albums to the charity. Danny is in direct contact with RB, and this woman, all the time. So I spoke to her through facebook and she said she'd talk to Danny. Last I had heard, late last year, she told me since they were working on the tour and the album, he didn't have time for a cookbook, but maybe in January.
January came and went and I saw she ignored one of my fb messages asking for an update (intentionally or not, I don't know). So, unaware that she also handles the e mail at RB, I emailed RB. She wrote back saying they had a number of fans who wanted to be part of a cookbook (of course) and that RB was forwarding all the requests to Danny to sort through--poor guy. Thankfully I made my case completely, mentioning I have a degree in culinary arts and that I already had the fb page, contact e mail and even a publishing company lined up. I hope he'll see that I've already dove into this and decide he wants to work with me.
But now I'm starting to panic. What if he actually does want to meet with me? What if I have to fly down to Miami (where he lives) perodically? I mean, I can think of worse things. But then there's the whole social aspect. I can't keep it together with average people, let alone with one of the members of a band that means so much more to me than I can even put into words.
I suppose I shouldn't panic yet. But the fact that my pitch for the cookbook may be in the hands of Danny and that he might, just might, choose to work with me...OMG.
I'm starting to put faith in tarot readings. Since I've started working on the cookbook idea, I've asked for a reading whenever I see someone offer on LJ or DW, or in a ontdcreepy post. They have been accurate and have really helped me with motivation. It's easier to keep going when you feel you have a trail of crumbs to follow. The last one I got said I was on the right track but that I had to put more emotion into it. I took that to mean that I should stop worrying if I was making the right move, or being savvy enough with the whole approach. I decided I should just jump in and put my heart into it and to heck with processes and proper procedures of presenting the idea. I poured out all my ideas in the e mail and just hoped for the best, and got a reply back the next day.
And now I wait...again...ugh!
Danny is a member of NKOTB. He's also incredibly healthy and well, ripped. Like holy crap. I'm really not into the buff look. I like 'em lean and toned but not like Bam! but if I was, I'd probably be into this:
<a href="http://tinypic.com?ref=2lkfxu0" target="_blank"><img src="http://i47.tinypic.com/2lkfxu0.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"></a>
He's always posting on twitter about the things he cooks at home and fans are always saying "You need to make a cookbook!" You know that saying that goes something like, "I used to think 'someone should do something about that' and then I realized I was that someone." Well I took the next step. I set up a facebook page and my friend set up a gmail account for people to submit recipes. I got NKOTB fans to like the facebook page (32 likes so far) and I update it with ideas for categories, recipes, etc. I encourage everyone to submit their favorite recipes especially those that remind them of NKOTB (for instance Donnie has said his favorite drink is a Bloody Mary).
I contacted a woman who is the director of his charity for his mother called Remember Betty. Danny's mother passed away some time ago from breast cancer and Remember Betty (RB) donates money in her name to the Susan G. Komen foundation. Danny also donates all the proceeds from his solo albums to the charity. Danny is in direct contact with RB, and this woman, all the time. So I spoke to her through facebook and she said she'd talk to Danny. Last I had heard, late last year, she told me since they were working on the tour and the album, he didn't have time for a cookbook, but maybe in January.
January came and went and I saw she ignored one of my fb messages asking for an update (intentionally or not, I don't know). So, unaware that she also handles the e mail at RB, I emailed RB. She wrote back saying they had a number of fans who wanted to be part of a cookbook (of course) and that RB was forwarding all the requests to Danny to sort through--poor guy. Thankfully I made my case completely, mentioning I have a degree in culinary arts and that I already had the fb page, contact e mail and even a publishing company lined up. I hope he'll see that I've already dove into this and decide he wants to work with me.
But now I'm starting to panic. What if he actually does want to meet with me? What if I have to fly down to Miami (where he lives) perodically? I mean, I can think of worse things. But then there's the whole social aspect. I can't keep it together with average people, let alone with one of the members of a band that means so much more to me than I can even put into words.
I suppose I shouldn't panic yet. But the fact that my pitch for the cookbook may be in the hands of Danny and that he might, just might, choose to work with me...OMG.
I'm starting to put faith in tarot readings. Since I've started working on the cookbook idea, I've asked for a reading whenever I see someone offer on LJ or DW, or in a ontdcreepy post. They have been accurate and have really helped me with motivation. It's easier to keep going when you feel you have a trail of crumbs to follow. The last one I got said I was on the right track but that I had to put more emotion into it. I took that to mean that I should stop worrying if I was making the right move, or being savvy enough with the whole approach. I decided I should just jump in and put my heart into it and to heck with processes and proper procedures of presenting the idea. I poured out all my ideas in the e mail and just hoped for the best, and got a reply back the next day.
And now I wait...again...ugh!
