With the temperature in the 20's and the wind howling, I did not operate the floating book shop today. That left a lot of hours to fill after I picked up the laundry at my sister's. Since I watch TV from eight until midnight, I did not want to do that, and since I spend considerable time on the internet in the AM and after supper, that too was out. I'd planned this winter to offer a screenplay I wrote in the mid 90's, a romantic comedy about a GED gold futures trader and a highly educated magazine writer, as a Kindle book. A Truth Universally Acknowledged is influenced by the films of Tracy and Hepburn, and by Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Today I flushed out a bunch of errors and hope that it is now close to error free. I just finished the submission process at Amazon and the book should be ready by tomorrow morning. The main worry is whether the formatting will remain cohesive. In scanning the test edition, I noticed that it wasn't but that the work is eminently readable. My guess is that most readers would finish it in three sittings. It's a little more than 100 pages, but many sentences have only one or two words. The story is very unlike most of my work. It is light-hearted, upbeat. I was trying to write commercially. Unfortunately, I never had luck in getting anyone to read it. A friend, John, a former actor, suggested I send it to Tony Danza's house. Danza was perfect for the part, the type of Italian-American I grew up with, and John would have been perfect as his brother. If it ever got to Danza, I'll never know. At this point I'm just happy it wasn't stolen. It is under copyright. I'd heard too many tales of Hollywood chicanery to leave it unprotected. A couple of aspects date it. The action takes place a few years before 9/11, so there is a sadness in that for me. And Open Outcry, for decades the system used to trade commodities, is now largely passe, as 80% of futures trading occurs electronically. That aside, Truth... is a fun piece. I enjoyed reading it and there's always a chance others will too. What have I got to lose? I have a tiny hardcore base of fans that will probably buy it.
Vic's 4th Novel: http://tinyurl.com/bszwlxh
Vic's 3rd Novel: 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
Vic’s Short Story on Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/k95k3nx
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