I am reserving judgment on the book on Anita Kerr until I acquire a copy of it. So many biographies these days are hatchet jobs, filled with glaring errors and other distortions. Hopefully this one will not be in that category.

The author's last name is Pugh, so I asked my friend Ronnie Pugh (who is widely regarded as Nashville's resident country music historian) and he had never heard of the author OR the Anita Kerr book.

I hope someone who gets a copy will tell us if Jim Reeves is mentioned, etc.

BTW, in case anyone is interested -- I vowed after spending 13 years writing my 672-page biography, "Jim Reeves: His Untold Story", that I would never write another biography. It is extremely difficult and time consuming.

Well, I broke that vow and am wrapping up a 600+ page book on MARILYN MONROE.

I don't think there's any other celebrity you could name about whom more lies have been told than Marilyn. A bunch of authors have made a fortune propagating outrageous slander of this poor woman, repeating the same outrageous stories without fact-checking, etc.

My daughter Sara, who helped on the Reeves book, is a professional journalist who won the Outstanding Young Journalist of the Year Award from the Iowa newspaper assn. a few years ago and her work appears nationwide via the Associated Press and Gannett -- the USA Today network of papers.

She has been helping me edit the new Marilyn book. There are many surprises and I dug deep to uncover a lot of stuff that nobody else has reported. If any of you like Marilyn, I think you'll be interested in the new MM book I'm finishing. It should be released by the end of the year.