Operatic Divas and Naked Irishmen An Innkeeper}}}s Tale [Paperback]

In 1994, at the age of 64 with no business experience and very little start-up money, Nancy Hinchliff buys a turn-of-the-century mansion in Louisville, Kentucky and turns it into a charming Victorian Inn. Through sheer tenacity, she learns the business while successfully coping with one mishap after another. An admittedly asocial retired school teacher, she reinvents herself as an Inn keeper. The reader is drawn into this humorous and engaging tale as the author wields her way around cantankerous contractors, harrowing housekeepers, and no shortage of strange and interesting guests and events. Through her collected stories, Hinchliff gives readers a personal, in-depth, and honest look at what its like to be an inn keeper as she candidly describes her twenty-year journey of self discovery.At sixty four, divorced and retired, with no prior business experience and little start up money, the author impulsively moves to a new city where she knows only one person, buys a 125-year-old historic mansion, and turns it into a successful bed and breakfast.* Author will launch new authors website, newsletter, sign up list, giveaways, reviews, contests, promote book on-line through social media, press releases, write articles for websites & blogs.* A campaign will commence designed to reach out to local newspapers, arrange for local book signings, send out galleys, create a video, write articles for local papers, send out post cards, create an email list on Constant Contact, create & print book marks.* This story depicts the working life of one woman who, at sixty-four, does not let age or lack of enough money stand in the way of opening her own business. During the economic crunch of 2008-2013, when her occupancy rate drops, she perseveres and keeps the business alive for another seven years until her health and eighty-four years of age, force her to close after twenty years in business.* For those thinking of starting out in the hospitality business, this new book is an lƒ,