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My Brooklyn roots and many of my experiences growing up in that famed and often defamed borough reside in my core. So many years and countless thousands of experiences after I moved out and moved on, images of places and people and bits of actual conversations from years in the past return to me in waves. They infuse much of my writing.
Let's dig a little deeper: within Brooklyn's 97 square miles is my old neighborhood, Bensonhurst, which serves as more than just the setting for my first two novels, THE OUTCAST PROPHET OF BENSONHURST and RETURNING TO THE LION'S DEN: LIFE IN AN ORGANIZED CRIME FAMILY. It is a background character, sometimes jubilant and buoyant, often cheerless and gloomy, but always affecting and often guiding the lives of the people in my books and stories. Yes, there’s a bigger world out there, and that’s where I live now, but I always return to my source.
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