I have always wanted to be a writer. Science fiction. Hard boiled crime. Comedy. Something.
That is one of the things I really enjoy about this blog. I can noodle around and use some of my creativity. I have always wanted to write a book but never thought I could do it. Till now.
I have been buying a lot of kindle books on-line for a buck. I get an email every day from "Book Bub" and it lists the bargins that Amazon has that day. One of them was a Mafia drama called "Blood of My Father." Now this cost all of $2.99 and since it was a Mafia book I decided to get it. Well let me tell you what! It was so amateurish and poorly done that I could not believe it! I mean words were mispelled more often than when I am drunk blogging.
So if this mook can do it maybe I can too!
"Laura Bush's Diary" coming soon!
22 comments:
One of my jobs is proofreading. Send me an advance copy and I will proofread it for you. I will find your "mispellings".
Spinelli's gotta have some good stories. Could you reach across the Giants/Packers divide to collaborate?
I know.
I have in mind a vampire mafia book.
We can make millions I tell ya!
Thanks Sixy. I might take you up on that.
I am making one up to send to a producer from BBC that we had worked with on the show.
He was interested in pitching it to HBO.
You never know. Stranger things have happened. (Honey Boo Boo)
Honey Troop Troop. I could play one of your moonshine-swillin' cousins. Type casting, don't you know...
"Dreams from .."??
There's even a typo on the cover.
You're thinking small.
A vampire mafia book in Space with a serial killer who knows who really killed JFK and a feminist heroine would be huge.
I think I see where you got the idea for a vampire mafia book.
Blood of My Father => The Bloodfather.
You're a very good writer, paisan. I would give you all of the stories I have from 30 years. For decades I NEVER spoke about my cases. My clients expected and deserved confidentiality. Add the fact that I'm an introvert and it was quite easy. I have written more here than I ever have talked about. I have files and videotapes going back to the Reagan administration. When we added onto our house in the early 90's we added a basement annex w/o windows to store my shit. It's almost full.
How about a stutterer, transgender, OCD, vampire, mafia hitman?
Think Gregory Scarpa as the guy nd.
I knew him in real life. And his son.
C-c-c-cut h-h-h-her l-l-l-loose!
I'm not one of those guys who blows his stack without a reason, but I had one, a good one, one of the best reasons in the world and one of the oldest -- a dame.
Start like that and you can't miss.
And it was written by an Oirishman!
Although Laura Bush's Diary posts aren't my favorite, they reveal the best and worst of TY, marking the unleashing of a weird flow of words, thoughts, perversions and oddities, with enough touch points to makes the story and characters seem close to real.
In the same corny/sincere vein as "I hope you dance", I hope you write. More of whatever is swirling around that wants out or is waiting to be unearthed. If the Laura BD posts are any indication of depth, the pit/well from which to draw appears bottomless.
"Innocent Blood" -- Vampire/mafia movie from the '90s, directed by John Landis, featuring a very naked Anne Parillaud.
Trooper, Scarpa was a rat bastard. You may want to talk w/ my bride more than me. She had many killers on her caseloads and when she worked @ the Federal MCC in Chicago had Joey "The Clown" Lomabardo on her caseload. She liked him, said he was a real gentleman to her and surmised her last name helped in that regard. His family was from Bari, same as my grandfather. Lombardo is still alive and quite the character. I think he's good for double digit hits. He was part of the Teamster pension fund Allen Dorfman Vegas shit, portrayed in the flick, Casino.
"A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you're talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who's gonna come along in that time? Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all fuckin' night."
The first thing I noticed about him was his face, pockmarked like a cheese grater, only without the little hardened flecks of cheese hanging on here and there. And it wasn't metal. The broad on his arm had the kind of eyes that make you look at them and wonder if they rolled back in their sockets when she ate anything that had horseradish in it.
No charge.
Sixty, Great line. I've seen the flick about 10 times. When we lived in KC I used to go to the Italian grocery store where the FBI first picked up via wiretap about the skim. Nick Civella was the KC boss. We move to Chicago and my bride gets Joey The Clown on her caseload. Just makes the movie more enjoyable.
windbag, Is that quote from Casino?
nd, no, just random crap I spewed out. I thought about trying to make it worse, but decided it wasn't worth the effort; it was crappy enough already. Anybody is free to develop the story line, if they're so inclined.
The face like a cheese grater is a ballbust I'll use some day.
Hitting someone in the face with a cheese grater is one hell of a weapon.
windbag, I use one of those rotary ones..just not the same for your purpose.
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