Sixty Things to Do When You Turn Sixty: 60 Experts on the Subject of Turning 60 - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 1569069670 ISBN 13: 9781569069677

Publisher: Ronnie Sellers Productions, 2006

Synopsis

In 2006, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the oldest of the baby boomers will begin to turn 60. That translates to approximately 13,000 people per day who will be celebrating this event in North America. We have the perfect gift of reading for the 60-somethings in your life. 60 Things To Do When You Turn 60 is a thoughtful, humorous, and sometimes provoking collection of essays written by people from all walks of life on the subject of turning 60.

About this title

From the Publisher:

April 2006

A NOTE TO THE READER:

Last fall we published Fifty Things To Do When You Turn Fifty, a book that contains essays from 50 different contributors on the subject of turning 50. By the time you read this, Fifty Things will be in its fourth printing, and will be among the best-selling books our company has published.

No sooner had we begun to mail out the review copies of Fifty Things when we began to receive queries asking when we intended to follow up with Sixty Things. One Journalist even went so far as to emphasize that the market for Sixty Things is roughly twice the size of the market for Fifty Things. Boomers have been turning 50 for the last ten years, he explained, leaving only 50 million of them who have not yet celebrated their big 5-0. There are still 100 million boomers waiting to turn 60, however. If you do the math this breaks down to thirteen thousand 60th birthdays per day for the next 20 years.

One hundred million potential readers? Thirteen thousand birthdays per day? What publisher could argue with numbers like these? Despite the fact that compiling and editing 50 essays for Fifty Things had added ten years to our lives, we picked ourselves up off the floor and went back to work on the sequel.

I have been asked by those who have read Fifty Things if there are noticeable differences in the essays that have been submitted for Sixty Things. Not surprisingly, there are. Many of the essays contained in Fifty Things encourage readers to accept the fact that they are maturing and use the experience of turning 50 as an impetus for change.

The contributors for Sixty Things tend to assume that readers have moved beyond their anxieties and at least begun to accept their more senior station in life. Their essays offer valuable, upbeat advice about how to be healthy, wealthy, wise...and yes, even happy, during our later years.

After reading through Sixty Things To Do When You Turn Sixty, I hope you have the same sense of promise and optimism about your senior years that I was left with when I finished editing the book.

Sincerely, Ronnie Sellers President and Publisher

From the Back Cover:

Don't Even Think About Turning 60 Without This Book!

Baby Boomers are a generation of people who are willing to re-evaluate later in life. Sixty Things To Do When You Turn Sixty speaks to the reader ho has or will soon turn 60.

Thanks to the generosity of the contributing authors, all of whom provided essays on a pro-bono basis, the royalties generated from the sales of this book will be donated to nonprofit organizations dedicated to preventing and curing cancer.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ronnie Sellers Productions
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1569069670
• ISBN 13: 9781569069677
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 375
• Editor: Ronnie Sellers