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1 The Last Minute Phone Call by David Ginn FIVE YEARS AGO I offered to write Sammy Smith a story for his publication The Florida Writer, and it appeared in the Fall 2007 issue. It was a magical true story about one of my published books, but it had to appeal to a writer s point-of-view. Once you read this, I think you will see that the life of a magician/author is not always easy. I bet Richard Webster could tell a few stories like this one! See what you think. And let s not go through this adventure again! David Ginn at home in Georgia, USA JUST BECAUSE I am a native of Atlanta, Georgia, and will always live here doesn t mean I m not a Florida writer. The truth is, I am. I ve started books in Florida, finished books in Florida, and both written and edited whole books while at the beach in Florida. For 30 years my family has vacationed at New Smyrna Beach, and I ve hauled typewriters, photos, notes and even rented a computer in Florida in order to write during those hot summer sunny afternoons in the air-conditioned condo. I ve also eaten lots of good cooking at Aunt Catfish s, Norwood s, and Dustin s Bar-B-Q. And even written plenty of book notes on napkins. Clean napkins. So please consider me a Florida writer for a moment, even though I am a Georgia boy at heart. With that said, let me tell you about an unusual situation that happened way back in June Since 1969 I have written dozens of booklets in the magic field, teaching magicians and clowns how to do tricks and entertain children. These were all based on the fact that I perform shows yearly at schools, churches, and libraries as a comedy,

2 kidshow/family magician. My first 18 books ran from 8 to 72 pages, mostly saddlestitched paperbacks, but they all sold well and went through numerous printings. My first hardback, Professional Magic for Children, came out in 1976, sold out the first printing in eight months, and rapidly went through two more printings. This hardback put me on the magic map, and it led to my lecturing to magic clubs across the USA starting in the late 1970s. It also gave me the authority to write magic books teaching children how to do easy beginner tricks. So by 1987 I was on my third book to be published by Weekly Reader Books in Connecticut. The first two, Keep It A Secret and Super Math Puzzles & Tricks, had both done well in sales to school children across the USA. Unknown to me, they were also sold in Great Britain. The royalties from one of those books even put a new roof on our house! In 1986 I had pitched a third book to Weekly Reader with the working title Money Math Magic. I thought the three M s sounded good, and the idea was that every math trick in the book would involve money and magic. Sounds like something kids would enjoy. As it turned out, I was right. But you ll learn more about that later. I wrote the money book in the fall of 1986 and submitted the final draft, complete with drawings by the end of January This was before manuscripts and artwork were submitted via computers and . Instead, I typed the manuscript on a IBM Selectric typewriter and sent in the mail (or maybe UPS) with the hand-done drawings by artist Bill Blackard. You ll see a few sample pages with this article. Yes, you could say all was well, all done, the project was in the can. Then I went about my life of doing 300 school shows yearly and lecturing for magic clubs and conventions.

3 ONE DAY in early June, five months later, the telephone rang in my office. It was a non-show day, about 9:00 o clock in the morning, and I was home in shorts and a tee shirt. Thankfully, I was at home. It was my editor, a very nice lady at Weekly Reader. I figured she was calling to tell me the date in September that my book would appear. But that s not why she was calling me. Here is what she said: There s a problem with the MATH in the book, she said, and my heart skipped a beat. To get right to the point, one of your tricks DOESN T always WORK. I m going on vacation for two weeks starting at noon today, but we must put the book to press. So you have three hours to solve the problem, otherwise, we ll have to delay publication. THREE HOURS? DELAY PUBLICATION? I worked on the book for six months and that was last year! She explained the mathematical problem, and I promised her I d drop everything and tackle it. This was years before I met Mathman KEN RING, so I did not have a math-whiz mentor to fall back upon. Yes, it involved the math in one of the tricks. As it turns out, the editors had tried that math trick with different numbers, and it did not always work. With some numbers the trick came out wrong! I had to make it work every time! After all, I told Sammy Smith later, we couldn t have little Wesley (his son) in Eustis Florida fretting over WHY that one trick in the book published by Weekly Reader would not work. Yes, I agreed with that point of view. Yes, I had to fix it. And YES, I

4 had to SOLVE the problem RIGHT NOW in less than three hours! First, I said a prayer and asked for God s help. You see, I m a magician and not a math expert! I couldn t solve this thing alone. Second, I cleared my desk with a sweep of my hand, got out sharpened pencils with erasers, grabbed my calculator, and went to work. I tried what my editor had told me, and yes, the trick didn t work. So I started trying other things with the math trick. Trial and error, again and again all using my high school math skills, which had gotten me this far! Yes, I played with the math trick for about half an hour. Suddenly, not only did it hit me WHY it didn t work, but also HOW I could solve it! I changed ONLY ONE of the numbers on the magic rabbits artwork in my rough draft. I ran the numbers with my solution, tried it over and over with various number combinations, and yes, yes, yes, HURRAY! The trick worked every single time. Boy, was the Good Lord watching over me that day! Immediately I called by my editor. By now it was 10:30 a.m. I carefully explained my solution, and she said, Okay, we ll try it and get back to you before noon. For the next hour I piddled around the house, fed the rabbit, worked on this or that, but stayed off the telephone. At 11:30 the phone rang. Your solution works, she said. You did it! Now I can go on vacation, and your book goes off to press! We said goodbye and hung up our phones, and I cried tears of joy! That was the Last Minute Phone Call I ve remembered now for 25 years. And I m still thankful that God blessed me with the solution on such short notice. Money Math Magic did appear in the fall of 1987 and became a Weekly Reader best seller. Over the next five years, I learned, this little book sold over 100,000 copies in paperback to school children across the USA and Great Britain.

5 When Weekly Reader finished promoting the book five years later, they let me buy the remaining 3000 copies for $600. Yes, that s 20 cents each! I priced them at $3 each and sold them after family night and summer library shows for the next seven years, eventually turning my $600 investment in my own book into $9000. And what s more important, giving elementary age children some fun, educational reading about magic tricks which taught math principals. Yes, that last minute phone call was really worth a lot! FLORIDA WRITER cover from the issue with my story. That, my friends, is an updated version of The Florida Writer story. For what it is worth, I hope you enjoyed it. I enjoyed telling it, but 25 years ago I did not enjoy living it! So let s end this on a different KIDSHOW note. Some friend in Texas sent me this, and YEAH it s true too:

6 HOW do you expect kids to listen to their parents when Tarzan lives half naked, Cinderella comes home at midnight, Pinocchio lies all the time, Aladdin is the king of thieves, Batman drives 200 mph, Sleeping Beauty is lazy, and Snow White lives with seven guys! We shouldn t be surprised when kids misbehave they get it all from their story books! David Ginn, 2012 Here is the Royal Standard manual typewriter that I got for high school graduation. It s the kind I learned on in typing class at Gordon High School in Decatur, Georgia. This is the exact typewriter on which I wrote my first 25 books and pamphlets. Finally, my wife Lynne convinced me to go electric with an IBM Selectric II, that I loved and used for many years until I converted to computer. Next thing you know I ll get an iphone. Wait, I do have an iphone!

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