When You Step Upon A Star, published by Jacobs Brown Media Group, will be available for purchase in hardcover, paperback and Ebook editions at Jacobs Brown Media Group, on Amazon and from other book sellers in July 2024.
As an only child raised on television, William Keck adopted TV families as his own and dreamed of one day coming to Hollywood to meet them all in person. Well, be careful what you wish for! Joining the ruthless National Enquirer as a cub reporter, Keck did come in contact with the town’s most rich and famous—by crashing their weddings, pursuing them in high-speed chases and visiting them in their hospital beds and cemetery plots.
Now finally coming clean in this humorous, cringeworthy confessional, Keck takes you along on his adrenaline-pumping and often dangerous scoop-gathering missions—jumping fences, hiding in trees, stealing garbage, tracking down a celebrity’s organ donor and landing on the Scientologists’ dreaded “suppressives” list. Employing the tactics of an undercover spy to satisfy his mafia-like bosses, the author succeeds in infiltrating a Las Vegas escort service, a Palm Springs nudist resort, a Hawaiian prison and the private home of Nicole Brown Simpson’s grieving family—just days after her murder.
Infuriating the TV divas and movie heroes he’d long idolized, Keck comes to experience haunting feelings of guilt and soul-crushing moral dilemmas … not to mention an unwelcome crotch grab from one sitcom star and a bloody beating from another! When the author ultimately finds the courage to resign from the Enquirer to land assignments from legitimate celebrity news publications, he suddenly finds himself with unsupervised access to Hollywood A-listers that lands him in even deeper trouble. As Keck comes to learn, while you can quit the tabloid world, its mischievous, fact-finding tricks of the trade don’t so easily quit you.
With all-new revealing commentaries from Moonlighting’s Cybill Shepherd, Desperate Housewives’ Marcia Cross, Dallas’ Linda Gray, Little House on the Prairie’s Melissa Gilbert, The Brady Bunch’s Christopher Knight and many more classic stars.
