Storytelling

We all know that the best way to get a point across it through a story and real, honest emotions. I have been getting lots of questions about the book that Jon Gosselin and I are writing together.

Some want the “dirt”, others want the roadmap of how Jon managed the early years with eight little ones. Yet, others want to know what being in the glare of celebrity has done to him.

Let me say the book will have a bit of all of that. If a journey story is to have any merit the key ingredient is the truth, told in a disciplined and art-filled manner. This book will have that. Will it discuss his relationship with Kate? How can he do a book about the lessons he is learning in life, and be someone who can help others think about their own lives without talking about a ten year marriage and lots of kids all at once.

Will the book be an expose? That depends on what you think an expose means. It will not be a finger-pointing tome about the big, bad gorillas in television land. Will he talk about how reality TV has impacted his life and the lives of his children? Of course it will.

Let me add, the book will also touch on the important lessons we all have put right smack in front of us as we grow. It will talk about how to pay attention to the lessons and how to learn them so you don’t have to keep repeating a grade year after year.

Jon is willing to talk about what really matters to him and how the sudden thrust into the limelight of the media has made such a major impact on a life that did not begin with the dream of being on the cover of magazines.

The hope is that everyone who has the opportunity to read his book will find a part of their own story in his and gain some insights from his falls from grace and successes to help them courageously tackle some of their own dragons.