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THE ENDLESS WAVE | PART ONE
The show ended and we tried our best to market the book. In hindsight, I should have known it was a recipe for failure. Four thousand copies of the book were printed in Canada. This meant they were expensive to produce. A $40 retail price didn’t help the situation. Realistically, there wasn’t the de- mand we initially thought there would be. We should have printed overseas with a run of 1,000. But this was the first book I’d ever published and it was one heck of a learning curve.
Warren was very aggravated by the failure of the book to take off. I felt very badly about things, but as much as I tried, the demand just wasn’t there. Now- adays, if you go searching for the book, it is a collectors item. I’ve seen copies sell for over $500!
The years following the publication of the book were not good for Warren. Al- though he had received treatment for his drug addiction just after the book launch, it failed to truly improve his life to any great extent. Sadly, he was in- volved in a car accident which left him with crippling pain and he returned to using painkillers.
Unfortunately, Warren was never able to get a handle on the demons that plagued him for decades. Tragically, he committed suicide in Hawaii in 2006, almost two years to the day that I met him at the book launch in San Diego.
I walked the ASR show with deep sadness but with the knowledge that I’d at least helped keep the memory of Warren Bolster alive.
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