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Behind the Book (and the Album): A Song for Katy Shayne

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By Jim Fusilli 
| Crimespree Magazine
In writing my novel “A Song for Katy Shayne,” I broke the number-one rule I advise all authors to follow – and in doing so, I went on an unexpected adventure that reconnected me to my earliest examples of storytelling. In “A Song for Katy Shayne,” an aging music critic is suddenly without a job. He’s adrift until a reader asks him to listen to songs composed by his sister Katy Shayne who died decades earlier – a suicide per police.
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A Flower is a Lovesome Thing

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By Jim Fusilli 
| Tidal Magazine
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Behind the Book: The Price You Pay

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By Jim Fusilli 
| Crimespree Magazine
THE PRICE YOU PAY is my most autobiographical novel to date. Previous novels NARROWS GATE and THE MAYOR OF POLK STREET are both set in a fictionalized Hoboken, N.J., where I was born and raised, and some minor events have a basis in fact. But those books are set well before I was born. They’re largely the product of research about the mob and the entertainment industry. In THE PRICE YOU PAY, what’s on the page is often akin to reporting with some tweaking.
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