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To everyone interested in my career,
I have been waiting a very long time to announce this new book deal. I have just been signed along with Mafia icon and Howard Stern regular Johnny Fratto for the debut release from Igniter, the new HarperCollins imprint founded by #1 New York Times bestselling authors Neil Strauss and Anthony Bozza. The provisionally titled Godfather Knows Best: How To Live Like a Wiseguy Without Ever Breaking the Law is slated for international March 2010 release and will tell the story of how Johnny Fratto grew up a Mafia prince as the son of legendary Mafia godfather Luigi Fratto, only to remake himself as an adult as a Beverly Hills PR guru and beloved regular on the Howard Stern Show.
I cannot exaggerate the importance of this gig for me professionally. HarperCollins, which is part of the Fox entertainment empire, is the world’s most cutting-edge and commercially inspired publishing company. To work for HarperCollins under the umbrella of two literary superstars like Strauss and Bozza is as good as it gets for a writer.
Also, I had my highest profile publication ever earlier this month when an article I co-wrote with ex-gangster Bill Cutolo Jr. appeared in The New York Daily News for an audience of over 600,000 daily readers. You can read the article here: http://www.breakshotblog.com/nydncropped.jpg
Finally, we’re only one month away from the hardcover release of my next book, Breakshot: A Life in the 21st Century American Mafia, co-written with legendary Japanese-American gangster Kenny "Kenji" Gallo. In a whirlwind criminal career that began as a teenage drug smuggler for Pablo Escobar, Gallo became the most controversial gangster in modern American Mafia history as the playboy Asian-American criminal mastermind who outwitted some of the most dangerous criminals in New York history as an undercover FBI operative. For those who didn’t see it, I have attached the first of very many magazine and newspaper stories on Gallo from the May issue of Giant Robot Magazine.
You may find out more about Breakshot and my other books at MRVBooks.com, and pre-order autographed copies of Breakshot (signed both by Gallo and I) by e-mailing Sales@MatthewRandazzo.com.
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