101 Secrets to Winning Beauty Pageants [Paperback]

Ann-Marie Bivans (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 267 pages
• Publisher: Citadel Pr (August 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806516437
• ISBN-13: 978-0806516431
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #611,207 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

ANN-MARIE BIVANS

Ann-Marie Bivans is the author of three books on pageantry: 101 Secrets to Winning Beauty Pageants, The Miss America Cookbook, and Miss America: In Pursuit of the Crown - The Complete Guide to the Miss America Pageant.

The author has been interviewed on some 300 radio and television programs including Larry King Live, The Jenny Jones Show, The Joan Rivers Show, Hard Copy, American Journal, Real Life (NBC), Lifetime Television, Hard Copy, The 700 Club, TV Food Network, America's Talking, A.M. Canada, A.M. Los Angeles, A.M. Philadelphia (interviewed live from the Miss America Pageant), Live From Universal Studios, and an Arts & Entertainment documentary special, Beauty Pageants: Bright Lights and Big Business.

The author and her work have been quoted in newspapers and magazines nationwide, including Newsweek, The New York Times, USA Today, Harper's magazine, Washingtonian, New York Daily News, Washington Post, U.S. News and World Report, New York Post, New Woman magazine, Woman's World, Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia News, Miami Herald, Birmingham News, Detroit News, Mobile Register, Press of Atlantic City, San Antonio Express, Fort Worth Star, Entertainment Weekly, Publisher's Weekly, The Globe, Inquirer Magazine, and Boca Raton magazine.

Due to Bivans' expertise she has served as a consultant for pageant-related features and documentaries including the A&E network's "Beauty Pageants: Bright Lights and Big Business", Clio's "Miss America" which aired at film festivals including Sundance and South by Southwest, The American Experience, the 700 Club, American Journal and TV-Asahi (Japan).

A seasoned pageant judge, Ann-Marie has judged the Miss America Pageant, Cinderella International Finals, the Miss Cayman Islands Pageant and scores of local and state pageants including the intensely competitive Miss Florida and Miss South Carolina pageants.

Her two decades of research on pageants has included 250 interviews with titleholders, judges, emcees, contestants, officials, and 35 Miss Americas. She has conducted exclusive interviews with pageant legends including Lenora Slaughter-Frapart, founder of the Miss America Scholarship Program, Albert Marks, who ushered pageants into the television age, and Adrian Phillips, the only person to personally view the crownings of seven decades of Miss Americas (1921-1990).

Bivans has also served as a columnist for Pageantry magazine and written feature articles for Miss America national program books. Miss America: In Pursuit of the Crown was the first guidebook authorized by the Miss America Organization and was a Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club selection.

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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A necesity for the beginner and veteran pageant competitor!, May 9, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: 101 Secrets to Winning Beauty Pageants (Paperback)

It is all too easy to jump into pageant competition without learning what it takes to prepare. Secrets of Interview, Swimsuit, Talent and Evening Gown portions of competition are beautifully highlighted in this book to help contestants avoid mistakes. The importance of paperwork is not ignored either. If you're thinking about competing, I would definitely recommend reading this book from cover to cover at least once! If you've competed many times, this book is just as wonderful as it may point out things you never thought of as well as confirming that you are doing something right. In my opinion, this book is a must for the pageant competitor's library.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get Out Your Highlighter, July 15, 2001

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"corinnaprincess" (Lafayette, IN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 101 Secrets to Winning Beauty Pageants (Paperback)

I got this book from the library to give me more information about beauty pagents, and I couldn't put it down! I started marking pages of useful information, and then I had to get my own so I could make notes to myself. It is the most helpful book written so far, by a woman who used to be a Miss America judge and knows exactly what they are looking for, and how to get it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good to know, February 19, 2009

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Jenifer Ramsey (Honolulu, HI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 101 Secrets to Winning Beauty Pageants (Paperback)

This book is all the basic knowledge any girl/woman entering a pageant should know. It has helpful tips and smart advice, but don't expect some secret inside information. It's all about hard work and mental attitude to win a pageant. This book helps you remember that all the little steps you take to preparing yourself, leads to bigger changes.