The Writer's Life 12/9 - Content

Political Man recently approached the police about graffiti that has been popping up around the neighborhood, labeling Obama, Hillary and Schumer as Marxists. Although he has not witnessed anyone in the act, he thinks he knows who's doing it. He was asked to go to the station to look at mug shots and declined. Instead cops will come to his apartment -- but not before he hides his marijuana paraphernalia!

Dave, a chef at a Manhattan hotel, has been awakened early each morning by the loud banging of the heating system in his building -- and his co-op board refuses to even look into it. He asked if I knew which government department to contact about the problem. I don't believe I said this, but I told him to visit the office of the local assemblyman, Stephen Cymbrowitz, who might at least point to the right direction.

A woman who lives in Trump Village said a creep raped a young woman in a building in Luna Park -- and returned a half-hour later and robbed another. She was surprised I hadn't heard about it. I wonder if I'd glossed over a newspaper account. The slimeball was caught on surveillance video, so he should be behind bars shortly. To cheer herself up, she bought The Circle by Laura Day, whose tag is "How the Power of a Single Wish Can Change Your Life." There are blurbs of praise on the cover by Demi Moore and Wayne Dyer.

The past two weeks I've done a final scan of the short works collection I plan to self-publish after the New Year begins. This morning I uploaded the file to Create Space and began working on a cover. I will read the proof copy to root out any errors I've missed. One aspect may be problematic. Since there are 35 works in the book, I included a Table of Contents. The printed edition of Rising Star was either a page shorter or longer than I'd expected, so I wonder if the page numbers of the TOC might be off by one. The goal is always to get as close to perfection as possible.

My thanks to the kind folks who bought and donated books today, in Russian and English. A woman bought Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code in Russian. No, I haven't learned to read Cyrillic. The info was in both languages on the title page.
Vic's 5th Novel: http://tinyurl.com/okxkwh5

Vic's 4th novel: tinyurl.com/bszwlxh

Vic's 3rd Novel: http://tinyurl.com/7e9jty3

Vic's Short Story on Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/k95k3nx
Vic's Short Story Collection: http://www.tiny.cc/Oycgb
Vic's 2nd Novel: http://tiny.cc/0iHLb Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/kx3d3uf
Vic's 1st Novel: http://tinyurl.com/l84h63j

Vic's Rom-Com Screenplay: http://tinyurl.com/kny5llp

Vic's Horror Screenplay: http://tinyurl.com/cyckn3f

Vic's Blog: http://vicfortezza.blogspot.com/

Vic's Web Site: http://members.tripod.com/vic_fortezza/Literature/