Big Announcement, "Las Vegas, My Vantage Point."

In 1973 my best friend's father wrote and self-published a book about the history of Las Vegas and some of his experiences working there as a security guard titled "Play Like The Dealers Play". It is part history and part memoir from a man who mostly lived, and worked, in Las Vegas from 1945 until his death in 1998.

For many reasons, most of them having to do with money, the book never sold very well. When you think aboout it, in 1973 if you wanted to reach a lot of people you had to have money to pay for ads in magazines, newspapers and television. The point being, it was long before the internet.

A few years ago my friend and I were talking, and as has happened quite often we started talking about our fathers, men who never quite lived up to their potential. At one point int he conversation I said, "if they were alive and working today they would either be wealthy or locked up." The point being that with the internet it seems that the potential for reaching the world is unlimited. I believe that for our fathers that would have meant success.

A short time later my friend came to me with a copy of his father's book and asked if I thought we could do something with it, make it available as an ebook, self-publish with a print on demand publisher, or any other option. We first decided we needed to edit and do a little re-write, not much, just a little. We also decided on a new title, the working title is - "Las Vegas, My Vantage Point." For my contributions we have decided I will be listed as co-author.

So, now we, my friend and I, think we are ready to publish. We have set October first as our target date for an ebook through Amazon. Look for it and let me know what you think.

PS - The pictures posted last week are probably going to be the front and back covers.