On Sunday September 12, 2010 at 4:00 pm The Gorgeous Glamourites and I preformed a dramatic reading of the first two chapters of my new novel, The Mermaid and the Sailor. Mermaid is the third and concluding book of the Glamour Galore Trilogy and you can read all about it on my new website 

An invited audience of over fifty friends gathered at Casa Romero Restaurant  for the launch party and imbibed Merrita cocktails and wolfed down delicious Mexican Antojitos. After the reading I sold and signed copies of the book which can now be purchased at all major on line book sellers, accessed by the order page on my website

You can also pick up a copy of Mermaid at Calamus Books   92-B South St. Boston, near South Station. I will be reading from Mermaid and the Sailor at Calamus on October 22, 2010 at 7:00 pm

Our reading got off to a roaring start with a grand fanfare created by Maestro Emeritus Ricardo Giglio running up and down the keyboard with scintillating technique reminiscent of his finest hours at Fenway Park where for eight years he amused the fans.

I naturally took the part of narrator employing a schmaltzy style of declamation that would have put a blush on any proper Bostonian but because my story is set in Ptown where every thing goes, I went over the top. You can verify the validity of this statement by checking out the video clip. 

The Gorgeous Glamourites had puzzled over and studied my script throughout the summer until they all had perfected the last nuance of characterization required for the full realization of the complex cast and I gotta hand it to them, this bunch really put on a show!

              Photo curtesy of Clint Hamblin                     From let to Right the culprits are

Cameron Lash reading, Rosalind Worthely — high society beauty, Al’s wife, investment angel for Glamour Galore Productions, mother of Janey and Georgie

Kilian Melloy reading, Val, Lilly’s “daughter” — Yellow Ducky pedi-cab operator, dancer in Glamour Galore Productions, Gyles lover

Craig Houk reading, Sergeant Stanisloff — officer of Provincetown’s Police Force, a Ptown native who thinks he has seen everything until Lilly is thrown in the clink.

Fred Atherton reading, Butch — Monique’s muscle man boyfriend and chauffeur, Betty the Bounder’s A A sponsor, always appears in one uniform or another

Iory Allison, Narrator — the author himself

Linda Markarian reading, Betty the Bounder — Lilly’s dresser and side kick, senior citizen of drag and hopeless slosh head.

Daniel Kimmel reading, Lilly Linda Le Strange — Diva Extraordinaire, producer, director and star of Glamour Galore Productions. AKA Albert Mellenoffsky, Al — Rosalind’s adoring husband, Marine combat nurse in Viet Nam, son of a pig farmer from Bumble Bee Arkansas.