Read Mario Puzo at the Ski Slopes

Publishers are impressed with characters that are attractive to readers. As a publisher, Las Vegas allows me to go a short distance to watch people interact with each other. Mario Puzo loved watching the gamblers in Las Vegas. He wrote about the mafia. Hunter S. Thompson became famous after his trip to Las Vegas. Hunter published Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Screenplay writers win awards and call me from Santa Barbara to collaborate on a novel. They want to write with me, but there is also this addiction to risk. The San Barbara writers want to gamble at the blackjack tables. I have written in Prague, Paris, New York, and San Francisco. Authors have paid my way to Greece, Egypt, and Israel to help them lay out their pages. There are less distractions in Las Vegas for writers that don’t get addicted to the lifestyle surrounding gambling, nightclubs featuring pole dancers as well as rounders where the writer stays up around the clock jumping from one casino to the next for 72 hours straight. Writing means isolation. Editing is a lonely job. New York City is full of distractions. Las Vegas offers less if you don’t live in a casino all day. Los Angeles authors spend their days in traffic. There is less comfort in Las Vegas than San Francisco. The cool fog brings breezes into town over Mount Sutro that meander down Geary Avenue, Market Street, and downtown events carry the publisher away. Writers don’t want to sit in the office when they can walk around outside in San Francisco. This isn’t the case for Las Vegas. The work gets done. There is nothing to do under the sun but edit, proof read, and write, so publishers like me get four books done each month. Here in Las Vegas we meet our deadlines. But now that I am married, I work at the expense of excluding my children. Children can’t stay inside all day. Children can be victims to the sun’s vicious rays.

Mario Puzo on Amazon:

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