The question was easy enough: Just how do you become successful in life? The answer, offered by those already there, was not easy. Nevertheless, more than 200 celebrities from movie stars to astronauts, from baseball players to romance novelists, from rock musicians to progressive politicians, gave it their best shot. In the end, what Ron Stovall and Joe Kraus, co-authors of the new book The Famous & Successful: Their Advice for All of Us found was that there are many paths to being successful in life. At the same time they found that there were common threads to that success. They found that these general assessments, shared by the majority of successful people, can turn losers into winners, lives of despair to lives of hope, individuals once poor in body and spirit to people rich in outlook and opportunity. The book, which took 13 years to solicit and compile results, is in essence a guidebook for anybody who wants to be successful in whatever they do. Even just a quick reading, the authors say, can turn lives around and point their ambitions in the right direction. The job then would be to keep going and going and going. They will know they have arrived when the day someone else comes forward to ask them - just how do you become successful in life? Now, just how did this project come about? Why was it launched and how was it that so many celebrities participated? The answer to these questions is a story in itself and fully explained in the softcover, 150-page book. It is available through Amazon, Barns & Nobel and other major bookstores.