Learning How to Fly

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Synopsis

From the time she was three years old living in Norway, Britt loved animals and surrounded herself with them. When she moved with her family to America, she discovered she also loved performing. But she had parents who considered all of that a sin. Even cheerleading was a big no-no, but somehow Britt managed to overcome their objections.

After Clint Eastwood cast her in Play Misty for Me while living in Carmel, she moved to L.A. and quickly was able to obtain work. Featured roles led to co-starring roles, which led to guest-starring roles. She married a producer, had a beautiful baby girl and was working as an actress. She had it all. Then tragedy struck and she lost everything. Acting work became hard to find, and life became a matter of survival.

After a daring move to New York, she found herself singing in Carnegie Hall with a gospel group and working in a musical. But still, she felt she had not lived up to her expectations, and she became overwhelmed with hopelessness. But a God-given epiphany set her back on track, and she realized she had a very good reason to go on.

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Author Biography

Britt Lind is an actress, singer and writer who has performed in television shows, movies and on stage in Los Angeles, New York and Vancouver, B.C. She has written several screenplays and came in as runner-up in the Washington State Screenwriting Competition for her screenplay A Light in the Forest. Britt lives in Thousand Oaks, California with her husband, Nick Alexander, a screenwriter, and their three feral cats, Teeny, Toughie and Baby Hughie who used to live a hardscrabble life in the cold and rain in the frozen north of Washington State and now enjoy a life of luxury in the sun as is their due. Britt is also president of a nonprofit, Kindness and Science in Action, a pro-health, pro-environment, anti-vivisection organization. Her inspirational memoir Learning How to Fly that was a winner in the 2019 Beverly Hills Book Awards in the Performing Arts Category, is available on Amazon as are her other award-winning novels. Her website is www.brittlind.com. To find out more about her non profit, please go to www.kindnessandscience.org.

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Author Insight

What Celebrity Would I Feel Honored to Meet?

People have asked me this question more than once and after giving it some thought, I’d have to say none of them. I’ve met many famous people and have worked with well-known actors but I always feel like they’re just people who worked hard to get where they are and got lucky. The people I most admire are Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd and Chris DeRose of Last Chance for Animals. But they are friends and meeting them would be normal, not an event. The one person who I would be honored to meet would have to be Jill Robinson. She may not be a celebrity but she is someone I greatly admire. Jill “singlehandedly alerted the world to the cruel practice of bear bile farming” after visiting a bear bile farm and was so moved by the plight of thousands of bears undergoing terrible suffering she founded Animals Asia and so far has rescued 600 bears and influenced the Viet Nam government to end bear bile farming next year. One person. 600 bears saved so far. I wish I could meet this remarkable lady.

Book Excerpt

Learning How to Fly

Kevin, Kojak and Near Death

Max’s manager introduced me to Vince Conte who was one of the best photographers in L.A. and Vince took my first Hollywood headshots. He also became a very good friend. Beautiful actresses were always coming and going in and out of his house but it took me awhile to realize that some of them weren’t exactly actresses. Vince was friends with a many famous actors and Las Vegas performers. Somehow a lot of Vince’s actresses ended up with these celebrities; sometimes short term, sometimes longer. As for me, Vince always told me that if anyone ever tried to come on to me, I was to report it to him and he would put a stop to it. Vince had a houseboy named Tiger, a young man in his early twenties with brown stringy hair down to his shoulders. One day he came to me and asked, “Why are you hanging around Vince and coming to the house all the time, Britt? Why do you want to be a part of this?” I told him I didn’t understand what he was talking about; Vince was my photographer and my friend. It took awhile for me to figure out who and what Vince really was.

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Britt Lind

Learning How to Fly

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What Celebrity Would I Feel Honored to Meet?

Book Excerpt

Learning How to Fly

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