People often ask me which is my favorite out of all the books I’ve written, and I always reply that books are like children–you love them all equally but differently.
I stand by that answer, but sometimes the characters in a book will resonate so much with you that you want to continue spending time with them. That happened to me with Mantle: The Best There Ever Was, and also with my newest book, The Book of Marilyn. All of my books stay with me even as I move on as a writer.
Fortunately, the promotion of The Book of Marilyn has givien me ample opportunity to keep it in my immediate thoughts. Marilyn Monroe was an actress whose rise to fame occurred when I was still a childI. Perhaps that is a reason that the novel feels as though the book is more of a biography of her–a biography of an American original much like Ernest Hemingway, and Mickey Mantle.
Of course, you, readers, are my partners in this adventure. For that, I’m so truly grateful to those of you who helped make hose books bestsellers.
Ashton Kutcher was among more than 400 who attended Tony’s book signing at Lucy’s El Adobe Cafe in Hollywood.