{"id":1430,"date":"2013-08-05T21:02:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T02:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/woayv2.flywheelsites.com\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2013-08-05T21:28:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T02:28:00","slug":"below-decks-connection-to-the-insiders-guide-to-becoming-a-yacht-stewardess-2nd-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.workonayacht.com\/index.php\/below-decks-connection-to-the-insiders-guide-to-becoming-a-yacht-stewardess-2nd-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Below Deck’s Connection to “The Insiders’ Guide to Becoming a Yacht Stewardess 2nd Edition”"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Exciting Development AND, Consequently, Addition to the Book<\/span><\/h2>\n

I’m not gonna lie: I caught wind of the fact that Bravo TV was planning a reality show about yacht crew early on. In fact, I’d heard rumors about it dating back to 2010 and learned it was in the works in 2011-12. But I never looked into who might be in it or when it would be filmed.<\/p>\n

So, when Bravo announced in April 2012<\/a> that Below Deck<\/em><\/a> was to hit the television airwaves sometime in that near future, it occurred to me it might be time to re-release The Insiders’ Guide to Becoming a Yacht Stewardess<\/a> (<\/em>originally published in 2006).<\/p>\n

\"Bravo<\/a>

Bravo TV’s “Below Deck” – Monday Nights, 10\/9c.
Photo Source: Below Deck official Twitter handle, @BelowDeck_Bravo<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

I mean, let’s face it, aside from it being time to update the job-finding resources<\/a> and address other outdated details, the fact that a piece of work I put so much effort into might actually be able to reach a wider audience this time was pretty exciting.<\/p>\n

Now I realize that to have sold around 4,500 copies of my first edition<\/a> was nothing to scoff at. For such a small niche, and for a book about an industry most people didn’t even know existed (let alone that there were jobs within it), I never expected to even sell that<\/em> many. I had long since come to terms with the fact that the accomplishment was that I wrote the book, not that it sold. And I was cool with that.<\/p>\n

\"Julie<\/a>

Julie Perry at Miami Book Fair International 2006, promoting the 1st Edition of “The Insiders Guide to Becoming a Yacht Stewardess” at the Bluewater Books & Charts booth.<\/p><\/div>\n

To be honest, the personal emails and letters I received<\/a> from young men and women on what was practically a monthly basis for seven years straight, with such heart warming words of gratitude for helping them discover and break into the industry, were reward enough. That was really what it was all about all along anyway, as I talk about in this book talk I gave at Bluewater Books & Charts<\/a> in 2007, shortly after the first edition came out:<\/p>\n