WHY DO THESE AUTHORS WANT TO KILL THEIR PUBLISHER?
When obnoxious publisher "Fat Vinny" Vitali rejects their final manuscript, the authors try everything before they turn to murder!
There
is no shortage of humor when Mob wife Maria Mancuso's true story,
co-authored by best-selling authors Danny Garrett, a former FBI agent,
and Margaret Stanton, a wealthy divorcee, is flatly rejected by the
publisher from Hell. "Fat Vinny" Vitali, who tops the scales around 400
pounds, signed them to a contract for Maria's memoir--the one she came
out of hiding to write--but what he really wanted was an investigative
Mob book and the solution to who killed her late husband, Tony "The
Nose," head of the notorious Mancuso crime family. The hit on "The Nose"
is still unsolved, and entrepreneur Vitali, new to the publishing business , pictures himself becoming the King of True Crime books with this book.READ MORE
The
problem was, never once in the year-and-a-half it took to write the
book had he shared his vision with the authors, even though he sat in on
most of the development meetings.
While
many authors may have entertained less than friendly thoughts for
agents or publishers who have done them wrong, Fat Vinny is one of those
guys who begs to be hated. He wants what he wants and is determined to
get it any way possible. He wants a Mob exposé, and when nothing they
say changes his mind, he threatens to shelve the book forever. He won't
give back the rights, even if they return the advance, because he's
determined to show them he's the boss. With other things in the works
for Maria, the only way they can get it back is if Vinny has a one-way
ticket to the Happy Hunting Ground .
Unfortunately
for them, Vinny seems to have 9 lives, because every diabolically
clever scheme they devise backfires. Trying to bump off Fat Vinny is
like hiring the "Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight" as hit men. Be
prepared for a hilarious romp with clever plots that go wrong and some
shocking twists at the end.
Definitely a fun read that will keep you turning the pages.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Dennis N. Griffin retired in 1994, after a 20-year career in investigations and law enforcement in New York State. Shortly after-ward he wrote his first novel, The Morgue. He currently has seven published mystery/thrillers.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Dennis N. Griffin retired in 1994, after a 20-year career in investigations and law enforcement in New York State. Shortly after-ward he wrote his first novel, The Morgue. He currently has seven published mystery/thrillers.
Griffin’s debut in nonfiction, Policing Las Vegas – A History of Law Enforcement in Southern Nevada, was released
in April 2005. It
covers
the evolution
of law enforcement
in Las Vegas and Clark County from the City’s establishment in 1905.
A July
2006 release and Computer Times
Editor’s
Selection three
months
later, his second
nonfiction, The Battle for Las Vegas – The Law versus the Mob, tells the story of the
Tony Spilotro
era in Las Vegas from 1971 through
1986. Griffin’s third nonfiction effort,
released in July 2007, was CULLOTTA, the biography of former Chicago and Las Vegas
mobster Frank Cullotta, followed by Surviving The Mob, the biography of former Gambino crime family associate Andrew DiDionato, which hit store shelves in January 2011.
In October 2012, Dennis’ first entertainment-related book, House Party Tonight, the story of legendary saxophonist Don Hill. That
book was followed in December by Rogue Town, the true story of crime and corruption in Stamford, Connecticut.
Griffin
is co-host of the popular Blog Talk Radio
show
Writers Tricks of the Trade, and serves as a consultant to the Vegas Mob
Tour. He
recently opened
BEAR Media Consultants,
which helps match true
crime movie and documentary
producers,
writers
and event
coordinators,
with potential technical
consultants and
speakers for their
projects or
events.
Griffin is an
active member of
the Wednesday
Warrior
Writers, Public Safety Writers
Association
and Greater Los Angeles Writers
Society.
Visit his
websites: www.dennisngriffin.biz, www.facebook.com/CrimeWireTeam
www.facebook.com/denny.griffin.121
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Morgan St. James is a former interior designer, lives in Las Vegas, is on the
board of Writers of Southern Nevada and belongs to multiple writers’ groups. In
addition to do-authoring the Silver Sisters series, she also collaborates with other writers and writes her own novels and
short stories as well.
With 14
books currently in publication, St. James’
most recent releases are Vanishing Act in Vegas, the third comical Silver Sisters Mystery, and
Ripoff, a fictional funny
crime caper inspired by
true
events experienced
by St.
James and her co-author Caroline Rowe. It was a finalist in the USA Book
News
Best Books Awards.
Funny
and romantic, Confessions of a Cougar, is a creative non-fiction book, the
true
story
of coming of age
at 42 with some delicious young
Englishmen.
After writing magazine and newspaper articles, St.
James launched a career writing fiction with her sister Phyllice
Bradner, also a published writer, in the late 1990s. The debut Silver Sisters Mystery, A Corpse in the Soup, garnered the USA Book News award as Best Mystery Audio Book. Her list
of
Silver Sisters Mysteries continued to grow. A Corpse in
the Soup was followed by Terror in a Teapot, and a fourth, Diamonds in the Dumpster, is currently in work.
Her short stories appear in Chicken Soup for the Soul books and multiple other anthologies.
The MAFIA FUNERAL and Other Short Stories, covers everything from true stories to fiction,
mystery to romance and
some
genres
in-between.
St. James has written over 600 published articles relative to the craft and business of writing, as well as the
book
Writers Tricks of the Trade.
An
entertaining
speaker,
she frequently
appears on radio talk shows, presents workshops and appears
on or
moderates
author’s panels. She edits and publishes the
online
eZine Writers Tricks of
the Trade
and co-hosts
the Writers Tricks of the Trade Show on Blog Talk Radio with Dennis N. Griffin.
She is a member of Henderson Writers Group,
Las Vegas Writers Group, Greater Los Angeles Writers Society and Writers of
Southern Nevada.
Visit her websites:
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