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Author with local roots reveals fatherโ€™s mobster history


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BOOK SIGNING


There was this one bookstore in Del Mar that I browsed every week.ย  The owner was a sweet New England woman. Her collection and arrangement likened toย  going into a candy shop as a little girl.ย  Over stuffed chairs, benches and a roundtable for readings and workshops were not unused. People spent hours in her salon of literature. Right next door was the Pannikin Coffee House that catered to loyalists of aromatic coffee, pastries and slouching.ย  I ordered coffee, sat outside on the walkway and read the book I had just bought.ย  Almost every time I bought a book the cashier commented, ‘ I love that book, or that looks interesting. ‘

At that time I was working on one of the first drafts of my book.ย  Iย  browsedย  every new display title, imagining someday my book would be sitting upright on a table. I remember the day I drew up enough courage to tell the owner about my book.ย  She raised her brows and smiled, ” Well, you’ll have to do a book signing when it’s published.”

After a year or two, she quit asking how my book was coming along, and I quit going into the bookshop.

Today twenty-three later, I am signing my book at La Posada Hotel.ย  This is why I am remembering those days in Del Mar, when the dream of completion seemed light years away. ‘You have to dream baby’ Carlitos Way.

Cradle of Crime #BookReview


Title:ย Cradle of Crime Author:ย Luellen Smiley Print Length:ย 264 Publication Date:ย November 19, 2016 Sold by Amazon Digital Services LLC Language:ย English Formats:ย  Paperback, Kindle Goodreads Genreโ€ฆ

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BASKING WITH BOOK SIGNING PALS AND GALS. PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF TONY BONANNO OF SANTA FE.


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La Posada Resort & Spa- 330 East Palace Avenue Santa Fe. NMย 

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CELEBRATE WITH LOCAL AUTHOR LUELLEN SMILEY

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Book signing & Q & A

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This eye-opening memoir, twenty years in the making chronicles Luellenโ€™s journey into her fatherโ€™s criminal past, beginning ten years after his death in 1982. Luellen is the daughter of Allen Smiley – Benjamin โ€œBugsyโ€ Siegelโ€™s best friend and business partner for ten years. Allen was seated next to Bugsy the night he was murdered. Luellen discounted her fatherโ€™s Mafia association until she was forty years old. Awakened by an identity crisis, she cut through her silence and used government surveillance records, newspaper articles, and FBI files to discover her fatherโ€™s legacy.

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POST PUBLICATION


 

One week ago I published my first and not the last book.ย  It is in the past, and yet not.ย  Instead of checking PM, tweets, facebook, emails and text a few times a day, your voices on the digital wire are a continuum of exultation. A writer doesn’t accept their work until those reviews come in.ย  An enormous hug and kiss to all of you who have expressed approval.

Just know that every time one of you writes about my book, I think of when we met, the memories we made, and the immortality of what I 54795916_high-resolution-front-cover_6490467remember.ย  As I said on the acknowledgment pageย  in the book, without you I wouldn’t have walked through the archway to my ancestry.

There is a mystical rainbow over this book. For the first time, my father’s relatives are learning about their abashed cousin, uncle, grandfather, and friend. I feel the river of change taking me into the current. It will be myย  ride because I am ready to steer on my own.