The Mercury Transition Reviews

:::.............................. REVIEWS The Mercury Transition, (Longmeadow Press) Dealing with the transition to full-time writing "How to escape from Lifetime Security to follow your Impossible Dream": Career Change Empowerment through Entrepreneurship - Managing Your Type of Personality Awesome! Finally a real step-by-step life enrichment. It's beyond positive thinking, it is a fabulous book for the conquering spirit in all of us. Ken has captured in ink many ideals which I hold essential for happiness and success. Wherever you are in life, this book speaks directly to your situation Cindy Villareal, author, The Cheerleader's Guide to Life, director, Houston Oilers Cheerleaders I read The Mercury Transition and wish you all the best with the book. I thought it had a tremendous amount of valuable advice, and honesty in dealing with an aspect of starting a new career that most publications gloss over lightly. I look forward to recommending it to anyone I meet who is thinking about making a career change. I found it personally rewarding and continue to review passages from the book. Arlene E. Hausman (Chicago, IL) I really enjoyed your lecture at the Beverly Hills Library last night. I am slowly transitioning (more like lead than mercury!) from educational film distribution to writing for children's television. I've almost completed an "After School Special" script and find that I am far better able to do my "boring" job while I work on something creative on the side. There were several points you made which are quite relevant to my situation. I look forward to the release of MERCURY TRANSITION and will purchase copies for myself and other creative friends who need to re-focus and become happier by living our lives more creatively. Thanks again! Juliet B. Reiter (Los Angeles) Thank you for your hole-ly entertaining quotes and the wisdom you share in The Mercury Transition. I have shared your stuff with clients of mine who are in career change, and have taken heart myself as my career always seems to be evolving into something else -- I just can't nail that sucker down! Clearly though, now is the time for all those creative projects to come forth. Lynn Baskfield (Minneapolis, MN) I picked up THE MERCURY TRANSITION last night -- literally -- and have read almost all of it already. It's fabulous! I've never come across anything that has connected as well with how, as a writer, I think and work and dream. I'd intended to pass it along to a friend, but now I'm buying him his own copy as a Christmas present. Congratulations, and I hope the book does well -- not just for your sake but also because I know it will help a lot of people. Carla Neggers (Springfield, VT) I read the prologue to The Mercury Transition.. laughing, then tearing as you told your tale. It was nearly identical to the journey I've been forced to take. Never did I think that the need to be free and lead a more creative life would one day become such an uncontrollable force... a kind of do or die situation. A pressure I have spent two years fighting against. Mid-life crisis; what an understatement...I had more than my share of nos and rejections, that I could take... well, let us say, endure. But it took the film industry vampires to send me running back to the safeness and security of the corporate world. Ah, the corporate world: A choking reality that compelled me to wrestle the question, which is the worse of the two evils. Suffocation by boredom, predictability and the lack of creative expression or vultures feeding off your very life force. I guess I've decided suffocation can no longer be tolerated. So, I'm back, tough-skinned and ready to get serious... Thanks again Shirley Strickland (Los Angeles) The Mercury Transition ... meant a great deal to me. ... It is a very fine and helpful book. It contains a good mixture of inspirational, practical, and philosophical information. It made me much more aware of what I have to face up to as I make this change. It is as you say, "Every dream has a price." ... I like your definition of success in the book, the "worthy pursuit of excellence." You have mastered the great lesson that still plagues me, "Life is not about the obtainment of things. It is about accomplishing what you value regardless of cost." I have a long way to go, but having read your book will make the journey more understandable if not easier. Milt Lyles (San Bernardino, CA) The Mercury Transition is a powerful book -- I couldn't put it down! Jill Barber, author Starring Mothers (New York City) Having successfully gone through the type of career transition described in this book I can only more appreciate not only its masterful detailing of the process but also its thoughtful, thought-provoking challenge to all those thinking of undergoing their own transitions. Ira Wohl, Academy Award-winning director turned psychotherapist (Los Angeles) THE MERCURY TRANSITION... is one of the most optimistic books I have read in a long time and it came at the right time Evva Pryor (New York City)