If Chins Could Kill by Bruce Campbell

If Chins Could Kill by Bruce Campbell

Okay, so at least you're interested enough to pick up this book and look inside. I think you and I are going to get along just fine.

Life is full of choices. Right now, yours is whether or not to buy the autobiography of a mid-grade, kind of hammy actor.

Am I supposed to know this guy? you think to yourself.

No, and that's exactly the point. Bookstores are chock full of household name actors and their high stakes shenanigans. I don't want to be a spoilsport, but we've all been down that road before.

Case in point: look to your left - see that Judy Garland book? You don't need that, you know plenty about her already - great voice, crappy life. Now look to your right at the Charlton Heston book. You don't need to cough up hard-earned dough for that either. You know his story too - great voice, crappy toupee.

The truth is that though you might not have a clue who I am, there are countless working stiffs like me out there, grinding away every day at the wheel of fortune.

If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor is my first book, and I invite you to ride with me through the choppy waters of blue collar Hollywood.

Okay, so buy the damned book already and read like the wind

Best,
Bruce Campbell

P.S. If the book sucks, at least there are gobs of pictures, and they're not crammed in the middle like all those other actor books.

At Queen's University in Belfast, Bruce Campbell is Emeritus Professor of Medieval Economic History. He is a former fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and a member of the Academia Europaea, Academy of Social Sciences, British Academy, Royal Historical Society, and Royal Irish Academy. His teaching at Queen's from 1973 to 2010 covered the economic and environmental history of Britain and Ireland over the last millennium. He was a graduate of the Universities of Liverpool and Cambridge. He is the author of English Seigniorial Agriculture 1250-1450 (2000), co-author of A Medieval Capital and Its Grain Supply: Agrarian Production and Distribution in the London Area c.1300 (1993), and England on the Eve of the Black Death: An Atlas of Lay Lordship, Land, and Wealth, 1300-49 (2006), as well as three collections of essays: His research makes use of the abundance of comprehensive statistical data found in England's large medieval archives to shed methodical light on the country's economic development at a time when it was still comparatively impoverished, underdeveloped, and prone to food crises and famine. He is now working on the manuscript for his 2013 Ellen McArthur Lectures, which will be published by Cambridge University Press.