What Can I say?
I Just Love to Write Copy.
I sold my very first piece of copy when I was just 17 years old. Gimbel’s Department Store didn’t feel that their ad agency was reaching the youth market, so they brought me in to write a radio campaign aimed at teens. Little did I know then that I was embarking on a life-long career that has involved writing advertising copy for all types of media as well as business plans, magazine articles and even serving as a ghostwriter on parts of the book Dick Clark’s First 25 Years of Rock & Roll.
The credited authors were (and still are) friends of mine. They got into a jam when the publisher moved up the due date for their copy. I was instantly promoted from being a research assistant to full-fledged writer.