I arrived in Los Angeles in October of 1976, ready to pursue my acting career. I managed to get a top agent to handle me (which was not an easy feat) and started auditioning for speaking parts and major roles. I would no longer be doing extra work, this was my agents decision and it sounded good to me.
Shortly thereafter, I met Dan Kuttner. Dan was a photographer who did head shots and portfolios for actors. Dan took my pictures and we quickly became friends. He also became my publicist.
After discovering a picture of me in a copy of Teen Beat Magazine, Dan decided that these magazines might be the best way to promote my career. Dan also decided that in order to promote me as an “Up and Coming Star,” that I would need to establish the Billie Perkins Fan Club. He mailed photos and bios out to all of the teen magazines and much to my surprise I started receiving fan mail. Dan had gotten publicity shots as well as articles in no less than seven different magazines. Some of the magazines published full page stories and I was an instant “star” of sorts. I received fan mail from girls as young as seven and from men as old as thirty-five. I personally answered each and every piece of fan mail that I received. I also sent an autographed photo to each and every one of my fans.
Fan Mail
My career was starting to look promising and I was auditioning for some major roles, not only for television but for the movies. In October of 1977 I had a horrible car accident. Unfortunately, it laid me up long enough to have to bring my budding career to a screeching halt. After healing up from the car accident, I managed to land a couple of small speaking roles, one being on Charlie’s Angels, but I never really got the momentum back. I decided the next year to head back to New York City.
By the way, my biggest fan now, my husband, still carries one of my fan club cards around with him in his wallet. 
