David H. Lewis, also known as David Lewis Hammarstrom and the blogger Showbiz David, is America's most diligent and penetrating big top-watcher.
His studies of the sawdust circle include Behind the Big Top and Inside The Changing Circus, both of which are essential reading.
He has also penned captivating memoirs such as Big Top Typewriter, which chronicles his lifetime of circus writing, and Hopelessly Hollywood, the story of his efforts to write a musical hit on Broadway.
Out now, is his latest book, Keep That Day Job! in which he details the no less than 50 occupations he has juggled to pay the bills while chasing his circus and musical theatre dreams. They include:
- Cleaning out rental cars in Oakland, and dining high on Park Avenue a few days later, with New York literary agents Bertha Klausner and Clare Booth Luce.
- Walking a rail yard by night recording box car numbers, and the next, meeting with French mime Marcel Marceau to discuss a Mother Goose screenplay.
- Typing out letters for a chemical company in Hollywood, and being handed by the office manager a rave review in Variety of his new musical Those Ringlings.
He's also viewed the American circus from the inside, as a clown and a press representative, and travelled the globe to critique rings in Russia and China.
David has a colourful writing voice that zings off the page, and his latest book promises to be every bit as thrilling, insightful and revealing as its predecessors.
Keep That Day Job is available from Amazon, here.
