One More Week Until the Launch of Greg Scarpa, Legendary Evil The interior proof is in great shape; the formatting looks great; and the book is 524 pages cover to cover! The page count includes bibliography (18 pages), endnotes (146 pages), and index (20 pages). The launch date is still set for Tuesday, July 22nd....Read More

Top Ranking for Scarpa Bio in Newly Released Organized Crime Biographies! Even though the book is currently only available for prerelease orders as an eBook, this week, Greg Scarpa, Legendary Evil reached #1 on Amazon’s “Hot New Releases” of  organized crime biographies. Not a bad start. The release date is still set for 10 days...Read More

A Chance to Promote My Upcoming Book on “True Crime Talk” Last week I had the pleasure of being a guest on True Crime Talk, a podcast that is the brainchild of my publisher, WildBlue Press. We spent about an hour talking about my new book, Greg Scarpa, Legendary Evil. If all continues to go...Read More

Greg Scarpa, Legendary Evil to be Released on July 22nd! If all continues to go well, Greg Scarpa, Legendary Evil will be released on July 22nd. It is currently available for prerelease order on Amazon in its eBook form and will soon be available for prerelease order in hardcover and paperback too. I started this project...Read More

The Last Phase in Manuscript Prep for Publication After a week of serious time in the chair, plugging away at each of my editor’s changes and comments, I was able to send the latest version of my Greg Scarpa biography manuscript back to my publisher, WildBlue Press. Lots of meticulous work and not much else...Read More

The Next Phase in Getting My Book Ready for Publication Phase II of the editing process of my Greg Scarpa biography manuscript is underway at WildBlue Press. This phase is characterized by a focus on line edits. Honestly, I had to look up what line edits are. Turns out, they’re about what they sound like....Read More

The True Crime Publication Process to Date Phase I of the editing process of my Greg Scarpa biography manuscript is complete. I turned the manuscript around today by responding to my editor’s solid substantive suggestions and keen, professional eye for minutia. We’ll soon see what phase II at WildBlue Press looks like. So far, so...Read More

Re-entering the Publication Process It has been more than a year since I completed the first draft of my Greg Scarpa biography. I received an offer of publication a couple of months later. I declined the offer for reasons of my own, reasons that had nothing to do with the prospective publisher. Two weeks ago,...Read More

Reupping “A Nick Temple Christmas” The Christmas season is upon us, so it’s time to once again post an original bit of Nick Temple I composed while stationed in Berlin during the early 1980s. I wrote this bit while working in subsystem Echo at the Field Station’s intercept site on Teufelsberg. It’s one of about...Read More

Uncles My brother sent me the picture below this morning. It’s a picture of my father, the man on the far right, and his four brothers. It was taken in the late 1960s. As far as I know, it’s the last photograph of them all together as my Uncle Pete, the man seated in the...Read More