Selling My Books on the Streets of Brooklyn 4/27 - Step One

There was a hop in my step today. After a long wait, my fifth book, fourth novel, Exchanges, has become available in Kindle. I bought and looked through it last night. The spacing is not consistent but it’s still eminently readable. My current budget allows for only the most primitive writing programs, which did not mesh perfectly with the publisher’s, hence the imperfect result. For some reason, perhaps because it seemed too easy, I was more skeptical of this book seeing the light of day than any of my others. I was not as diligent in the editing as I should have been. I spotted some errors. Are there more than in my previous books, which are very clean? I won’t know until I read the print version, which I hope will be out soon. The title refers not only to the physical entity of a trading floor but to the verbal exchanges people share each day. Here’s the blurb:
Charley LaRocca is ringmaster of two circuses, his family and the Silver Futures pit at his job in the wacky world of commodity trading. Witness a year in his life as he copes with a rebellious teenage daughter, the dog eat dog philosophy at his place of employment, and an obsession with the New York Mets.
The year is 1988. “Open Outcry” is the way at the Exchange. The electronic trading that would eventually supplant it is but a pipe dream at which many scoff. What is all the yelling and screaming about? Come inside and see. None of the incidents is exaggerated. Caution: aggressive men under intense pressure do and say regrettable things. Political correctness is out the window.
The trading floor was one of the last outposts of speech that was truly free. The novel concentrates on personalities, not trading technique or strategy. It is another chapter in the human comedy, the bittersweet mystery of life. This is how it was. Immature audiences only.
And here is a link to the book at Amazon: http://wlmpr.us/EXC-k

I was also very lucky on the street today. My thanks to the kind folks who patronized the floating book shop today on Bay Parkway.
Vic's Third Novel (Print or Kindle): http://tinyurl.com/7e9jty3
Vic's Website: http://members.tripod.com/vic_fortezza/Literature/
Vic's Short Story Collection (Print or Kindle): http://www.tiny.cc/Oycgb
Vic's 2nd Novel: http://tinyurl.com/6b86st6
Vic's 1st Novel: http://tiny.cc/94t5h
Vic's Screenplay on Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/cyckn3