My late, wonderful mother taught me a lot of great lessons. One of them was “Son, if you can sell it, and make a profit, you’ll sell something else another day. And son, there’s a buyer for everything.”

My name is Peter Miller, President, and Founder of Global Lion Intellectual Property Management — an international literary film and intellectual property management company that has evolved over several decades to become a unique force in the world of publishing, film, and digital content.

My passion is to make an author’s dreams come true and I have been blessed to do just that for well over 48 years. When I reflect back on the decades of my being a literary manager, I reflect on many stories of instances whereby I was instrumental in connecting the dots between an author, idea, and a publisher, movie producer, or anyone else. Finding a home for a book that an author has labored over for months is a beautiful moment in time. …

It takes a lot of hard work to make great things happen. But sometimes, the greatest things that happen in your life just come to you. You might be sitting at a dinner table at a college university, and just after giving a lecture, someone might say to you: “I enjoyed your lecture, and I believe I have your next best client.” The woman who said that to me at a Fielding University event was Lady Terry Robinson, the wife of world-renowned educator, Sir Ken Robinson.

Well, she was right. From that moment on, I started working with the amazing Ken Robinson about 14 years ago. When a literary representative takes on a client, and the relationship grows, and that person, me, winds up placing his books in thirty-four countries around the world in celebrating their wisdom, it’s quite special. Sir Ken Robinson has been that author and the educational wizard in my life. I’ve learned so many great lessons from him, I could probably write a book about it. …

I remember watching Perry Mason over fifty years ago. It wasn’t so much because I wanted to watch it, but my mother was a big fan of Raymond Burr, and way back when, there were only three television stations. NBC, CBS, and ABC. Even though we were not poor, we only had one television in the house, so if my mother wanted to watch a show, I wouldn’t suggest anything else. I sat and enjoyed it with her.

The new Perry Mason is absolutely brilliant. The opening episode is extremely dark, wherein the corpse of an infant is delivered with its eyes sewn shut. This is one of the most macabre images I’ve ever experienced. …

Sometime back in 1993, I received a phone call from a Chicago-based filmmaker and author, Jay Bonansinga. He had just seen me on the Joan Rivers show and felt the urge to contact me. I’ve been working with Jay ever since that day, now going on 28 years. I had no idea I’d end representing some twenty books (or more) and film deals for him.

Jay was writing a script at the time — White Noise — which my associate then, Jennifer Robinson, and I read with interest. Unfortunately, we didn’t take it on. In communicating with Jay, he explained to me that he was a filmmaker, but also wanted to be a novelist. He had a couple of ideas and was working on his first novel, The Black Mariah, a pedal to the metal thriller with a perpetual motion motor. …

Collectively, we are dealing with the complexity as a result of the pandemic, the economy, and the violence and racism that exist in the US today.

We all have our struggles, but we also have a lot to be grateful for, and expressing gratitude and love is the most powerful thing each and every one of us can do to overcome the powerful challenges that we are currently faced with. Practicing as many alternative therapies as possible — meditation, relaxation, exercise, prayer, and cooking can assist us in reaching this state of gratitude. We’ve been forced to change our vocabulary a bit with all kinds of new words and definitions like “the new normal”. We’re evolving as human beings, and technology is helping us. …

It’s always an honor to work with a true professional, and I have been blessed to work with one such publishing wizard — Lou Aronica — for well over 20 years.

In my seasoned professional career, I have connected the literary dots with editors, authors, publishers, directors, screenwriters, other intellectual property (IP) developers, and even some fantastic chefs. Working with Lou Aronica has touched many of those IP categories and inspires me to conclude that my work with Lou affords me the right to call him a Renaissance Man. …

A lot of wonderful things have happened in my life, and oftentimes some of the most special events just appeared and weren’t necessarily planned. These events were either happenstance, serendipity, kismet, or just plain ole’ good luck. Do you believe in serendipity?

It started when I was a speech and theater major in college at what was then Monmouth College, which is now a University in Long Branch, NJ. Whilst in my senior year I applied for a job working for a contract packaging firm in Edison, New Jersey, called Packaging Plus. It was owned by an extraordinary man, Paul Von Till, my first and only real boss. I got the job and learned what a multi-billion dollar business looked like from the inside out, beginning in the fall of 1971. Packaging Plus was allied with a New York firm, Cal Industries. After a while, I wound up working part-time in Edison and part-time in New York City. …