He emails:<\/p>\n
To everyone interested in my career,<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n
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<\/a>.<\/p>\n You may find out more about Breakshot and my other books at MRVBooks.com<\/a>, and pre-order autographed copies of Breakshot (signed both by Gallo and I) by e-mailing Sales@MatthewRandazzo.com.<\/p>\n Friend me at www.facebook.com\/mrvbooks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" He emails: 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 … Continue reading