The event at the glass clad Penthouse terrace bar of the Metropole Hotel on 50th Street East of Lexington Avenue was a celebration of the publication of The Road to Reality: Voted Off the Island!...My Journey as a Real-Life Survivor by Dianne Burnett (Hay House/Agape Media International http://www.AgapeMe.com). Hosting the party was the author, a warm and vivacious brunette in a red dress who has been an entrepreneur, producer, actor, philanthropist and was founder and President of Burnett Entertainment and The Other Side Media (her web site is DianneBurnett.com) ($15.85).

She spent about eight years as the wife and partner of Mark Burnett in creating Eco-Challenge, an expedition length racing reality show for the Discovery Channel, and then Survivor, the Robinson Crusoe island survival show with a million dollar prize, whose title she invented. Their dynamic marriage did not survive Hollywood success, however, and when she was cast aside without credit for her contributions, she had an identity crisis which she overcame to grow into her real self and achieve her own success well beyond fame and fortune