Goodbye, Billie Jean: the Meaning of Michael Jackson
When Michael Jackson died, Lorette C. Luzajic wanted to do something special. Like just about everyone else in the world, she wanted to mark the loss of this legendary life. And maybe it was a bit grandiose for a little-known (but growing) writer to decide to make the most amazing, most interesting, best looking MJ book of all.
Lorette writes regularly about interesting people, pop culture, madness and death, so the topic was certainly up her alley. But she had never spearheaded an anthology before. Still, Lorette has never been one to let inexperience keep her from gaining experience, and she plunged headlong into the project.
Maybe she should have listened to the naysayers who said it would be too much work, too much deadline pressure to get it together quickly, and perhaps even too much Michael Jackson. But she didn’t listen, and here it is: Goodbye, Billie Jean: fifty-one writers on the meaning of Michael Jackson.
Clearly, the most celebrated and most reviled man in the world meant many things to many people. Lorette curated fifty-one writers who show a broad spectrum of opinions and ideas and backgrounds. She read through endless submissions from enthusiastic hopefuls, and she asked authors she found interesting to participate. It’s an exciting lineup that includes Tibetan monk Jamyang Khedrup; celebrity drag queen Donnarama; Pultizer-prize winning New York Times writer and bestselling author Chris Hedges; creative think tank specialist Pat Kane (who also incidentally, opened for Madonna with his band back in the ‘80s); famous poet John B. Lee, Canadian wunderkind poet and Twitter hero Samuel Peralta (also known as “Semaphore”);
Lorette also commissioned the sought-after pop artist Iaian Greenson to custom-create a painting specifically for this book. Greenson’s pop icons, barbies, sea monkeys, celebrities and painting doll paintings occupy walls and hearts from Norway to Spain to Japan and all over North America.
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Lorette is available for interview in person, via email, or telephone.
Contact her at thegirlcanwrite@
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