Selling My Books on the Streets of Brooklyn 5/15 - Coup

Barry Spunt has been very generous to the floating book shop. He is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. I am pleased to announce that at the age of 66 he has scored a major literary coup. His book, Heroin and Music in New York City, has been published by Macmillan, which will get it into college libraries across America. Let the royalties begin! He's not sure if it will be available in public branches. It is also available online, but the price is steep: $95 at the Macmillan site, $76 at Amazon. Here's a blurb:
"Heroin abuse amongst musicians has never been limited to one genre, but the nature of the connection between heroin and music is not well understood at all. Narrative accounts from a sample of 69 New York City-based musicians and self-acknowledged heroin abusers will address the beginnings of their heroin addictions, it's prevalence amongst artists in certain music genres, and the impact -detrimental or otherwise- heroin has on musicians' playing, creativity, and careers."
Here's a link to the book at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Heroin-Music-New-York-City/dp/1137308567/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1400159258&sr=1-1&keywords=Heroin+and+Music+in+New+York+City

Best of luck, sir.

Completely lacking confidence that government will protect them, Nigerian villagers have decided to form their own defense. Yesterday they ambushed two truckloads of Boko Haram gunmen, killing scores and capturing ten. Kudos.

I had an eye-opener when my bill from Cablevision arrived -- my internet fee has doubled from $30 to $60. I suspect this is a mistake. I sent in an email questioning the increase. CV promised a response within 30 minutes. It's now been more than 30 hours without reply. What I hope is that it was a system wide error that has them too busy to address anything else.

My thanks to the gentleman who purchased a compilation of Plato's works, and to the one who donated five paperback romances.
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 Horror Screenplay on Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/cyckn3
Vic's Rom-Com Screenplay on Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/kny5llp
Vic’s Short Story on Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/k95k3nx