I’m networking with my book @burlesqueorbust at the Cannes Film Festival.
Burlesque or Bust: A Memoir of Trauma, Healing and True Love was reprinted in 2025 with a foreword by the son of Otto Preminger, a Hollywood director and icon who worked with Erik Lee Preminger, his son, on many projects and Erik who is also the son of burlesque multi-hyphenate, Gypsy Rose Lee, has kindly written a foreword for my new reprint.
Buy it on Amazon or DM me for a signed copy.
The book has a lovely update with 17 pages of photos and press clippings but I am particularly grateful to @andreedeissen Creative Director of @crazyhorseparis who has given it an endorsement quote as has @scarlettjamesofficial and the former Islington Mayor Clr Anja Khurana.
Film industry producers, this book has a pitch deck and treatment, if you would like to make magic please get in touch.
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🔹Marilyn Monroe - Director - Otto Preminger (River of No Return, 1954)
🔹Sapphira - Foreword - Erik Lee Preminger (Burlesque or Bust)
It’s iconic in the year of Marilyn’s 100th birthday the son of two burlesque icons, director Otto Preminger and Gypsy Rose Lee has given me a lineage to the Hollywood Golden Era from launching World Burlesque Day to preparing the next evolution of this work.
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Burlesque or Bust is all about how founder @sapphiramusic discovered burlesque with a new chapter on launching World Burlesque Day
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Or direct from author with tote bag and poster
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I’m part of @helpbnk a business community where you pitch your idea on a doorbell and they help to share it worldwide. My idea was of course, that burlesque helps lives and more people need to it.
I filmed mine at @virginhotelsldnshoreditch and it was an early start doing make up with @swartzbergarts because I wanted to look my best, even for a door bell!
Well now I am asking all of you.
Can you help me get this dance challenge viral and help set a world record?
Check out the #doyouwanttoburlesque challenge and come along on World Burlesque Day
Sunday 26 April
7pm London time
World’s Largest Online Burlesque Class
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Challenge Open
#DoYouWantToBurlesque 💃🔥
Copy the moves 🎶
Post your own video 📹
Use the hashtag so we can find you 👀💋
🎧 Song: Do You Want To Burlesque? – Sapphira & Tonestepa
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🇫🇷 In Paris where the book took a different turn. Be sure to get your new Burlesque or Bust reprint!
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Another book arrives. Enjoy reading.
Order yours on Amazon.
17 pages of press and photos plus new foreword and afterword.
Foreword by Gypsy Rose Lee’s son, Erik Lee Preminger.
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Today I met the Mayor of Islington, His Worshipful Jason Jackson and I played him the video for my song ‘Sanctuary’ which I wrote with @tonestepa and dedicated to the borough.
I also presented the reprint of my memoir @burlesqueorbust
It is because of Islington my book exists. I had the joy of working at Macmillan Publishers where I was invited to write my life story! Anyone trying to write and publish a book knows how rare this is.
The book is now under my imprint as I wanted to add more to it since launching World Burlesque Day, this is the version now available.
I am very proud as it has a foreword by the son of Gypsy Rose Lee, Erik Lee Preminger.
This meeting and the invitation to publish my memoir was due to my portfolio of local paper press.
If you’re a creative or small business who wants more inbound invitations and clients then join my Press Success Challenge.
Printed media is superior to social media and always will be.
You can get a copy of Burlesque or Bust by commenting below or purchasing it on Amazon.
I’ll hand sign a book if you DM me.
PS. Thank you @islingtoncouncil this is the best place to live. 🏡
Book cover @fusiongraphicdesign
Photo @laraeblakephotography
HMUA @swartzbergarts
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📖A moment in time popping my book at @burlesqueorbust to @simonsquibb via London Book Fair today to @penguinrandomhouse@penguinukbooks
This is an invitation to @helpbnk to support World Burlesque Day and join our Dance Challenge and World Record Attempt in 2026 after our pitch for Burlesque or Bust on the doorbell at @virginhotelsldnshoreditch last year.
My dream is to change the lives of people with burlesque and both Simon’s book and mine cover similar themes of struggle inspiring determination, challenging how we think about failure and for my story the key is unlocking one’s playfulness through burlesque.
Burlesque offers escapism to everyone.
If you love burlesque comment below if you agree.
🕺🏾Do you accept the challenge to join us on World Burlesque Day @simonsquibb ?
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