Audrey Riccucci Parente

Hi Richard Shaia, nice to see your profiel. You're in Florida--others of us from class of '65 also. But I don't find Daade City on a map, only Dade City. Just checking to see how close or far you are from Sunrise, Florida, where I live.

Hi Mike, great chatting with you and HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Stay well. Audrey

Thank you Linda and anyone else involved in attempting to keep our class and the web contact together. Your extra work and efforts are appreciated. But three things -- Could you possibly reconsider scheduling a reunion at the end of October instead of earlly in the month? Second, please be aware life isn't so "altered" anymore in Florida as apparently it is in Torrington, Connecticut. We are enjoying mostly normal activity. Sad for those who seem so oppressed and pray for speedy resolve to the lingering troubles where you are. The third thing, the "announcement about life-altering circumstances" was rife with political ads and surveys. How is that occurring? Those are not appreciated. Ads are one thing, but in my humble opinion, politics should be removed from our reunion site. On the other hand, I offer you an ad for www.boldventurepress.com where you can find some fine reading...LOL Stay well my life-long friends.

Hope all of you are well and surviving these weird times. Also hoping some of you are readers and would consider browsing boldventurepress.com and perhaps purchase some of our more than 200 books published. Just an example, Zorro is the biggest and most exciting project we have tackled. The first Zorro story by Johnston McCulley was a serial published in a weekly fiction magazine in 1919. Over the next 50 years, more than 60 such stories were published. Then the fiction magazines faded away, but you can all remember ZORRO was picked up by Disney for a weekly tv show, and the author McCulley was a consultant to the show. Movies and comic books have continued. But because no one ever collected all the original stories, they were never reprinted. Our little firm did just that, collected all the original stories and published six volumes --ZORRO: THE COMPLETE PULP ADVENTURES. We were written up in the Washington Post and several magazines praising the accomplishment. We've also published many books in all genres, including fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, each a carefully planned project. We've worked with famous authors and even agents representing famous authors from "across the pond." If you like crime stories, check out Tony Black, a best selling author in Scotland. We print him in the USA. Check out Mike Farris, a fascinating retired attorney who handled the 50 Shades of Gray lawsuit and won $13+ million for his client in real life.His novels are intense. Or if you are a sci-fi buff, look at TJ Morris. Oh, sorry, I could go on and on, but I'd really just like to share with you the excitement I enjoy in reading new works and publishing them. The books are on Amazon too, but they rake off half our profit, so if you buy them from boldventurepress.com we can actually earn a little. So, stay well everyone, and keep in touch. My personal email is audreypmother@yahoo.com

Hi Gregory Ross, this is a photo from seventh grade at East School on East Main Street in Torrington. Is that you in the photo with Bobby Dalla Valle and Tom (Brown or Bruni I think?)

Still hard at work publishing great books and boldventurepress.com. Here's a series we got from an agent who represents a popular Scottish author. Tony Black's 4-book hard boiled crime series starring Inspector Bob Valentine begins with ARTIFACTS OF THE DEAD, A TASTE OF ASHES and SUMMONING THE DEAD, all which also got home-run reviews from Publisher's Weekly: "well-paced"..."the mystery satisfies"..."Readers will look forward to Valentine’s further exploits"...and "engrossing." The finish, HER COLD EYES presents a cover-up that "reaches to the highest echelons of society," says PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. The final tale will blow you away.
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AUDREY RICCUCCI PARENTE and ROBERT BOBBY BADO had Mini reunion at Moonlight diner in Fort Lauderdale Nov. 27, 2019 HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE

The true life of professional
author Richard A. Lupoff covers more than six decades, and is in itself a lesson on how to survive an ever-changing business. He tells of being a life-time fan of everything from pulp magazines to comic books, science fiction and mystery, and more. In “Where Memory Hides,” Lupoff regales readers with triumphs and tribulations from his extensive career. His credits run the gamut of fiction, nonfiction, mainstream publishing, and fan journals. In the 1960s, he penned All In Color For a Dime, a foundation-laying work for modern comic book fandom, and Edgar Rice Burroughs: Master of Adventure, a study of Tarzan's creator.

The Comic Book Killer and Marblehead are among his best-known novels. His short story 12:01 PM, filmed twice in the 1990s, added a new sub-genre to science fiction and spawned a legion of imitators. He also offers insights of writing, and haggling with agents, and literary criticism of authors such as Dashiell Hammett, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and many others.
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Exciting new contract for BOLD VENTURE PRESS with a renown UK author from Scotland. Random House publishes him across the pond but BOLD VENTURE PRESS publishes his books for the first time in North America: Audrey Parente
Tough mysteries and serial crime novel lovers will never get enough of TONY BLACK, and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY says so. Of the first US novel release ARTIFACTS OF THE DEAD: DI VALENTINE, by this popular Scottish author, PW said: "Strong supporting characters enhance the well-paced plot." https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-070676-27-2
Within a month, the next edition A TASTE OF ASHES! with Detective Inspector Valentine will be out, and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY has already given it a thumbs up. https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-080792-72-6
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READERS, thank you for helping the hard work offered by Publisher Rich Harvey at BOLD VENTURE PRESS to pay off. The book list has topped 150, and the months ahead will be bringing a new wave of even more marvelous reprints and new titles from seasoned authors you should not miss. Sign up at boldventurepress.com for our email notifications to keep up with what's coming.
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The Sharon Playhouse managing director Robert Levinstein (right) and the playhouse artistic director Alan Wager (far left) with Rich Harvey, Bold Venture Press publisher, and author Audrey Parente are preparing an exhibit at the equity theater in Sharon, Connecticut, once owned by author Judson P. Philips. Original photos and materials used in Parente’s authorized biography “ONCE A PULP MAN: The Secret Life of Judson P. Philips as Hugh Pentecost,” were donated to the theater and to the Historical Society of Sharon for future exhibits.
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SAVE YOUR 2019 DATE FOR PULP ADVENTURECON South in Fort Laudredale for February 9. pulpadventure.com THE FORT LAUDERDALE GRAND HOTEL, 4900 Powerline Rd, Ft Lauderdale
OH, COME ON DOWN, LOL EVERYONE WANTS TO GET AWAY TO FLORIDA IN FEBRUARY!
Pulp Adventurecon is a one-day retro show, held annually in two locations: Fort Lauderdale (February) and Bordentown, New Jersey (November). The show hosts collectors and vendors of rare pulp magazines, vintage paperbacks, golden age comic books, movie memorabilia, and related paper collectibles. Guests include CAPTAIN AMERICA ARTIST Allen Bellman and caricaturist Capt. Cartoon, Dick Kulpa publisher of CRACKED magazine, and creator of Bat Boy,
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The show emphasizes material that originated between 1900 and 1959, the years that encompass a significant portion of the "pulp era," "golden age comics," "retro," and including "pin-ups" like Bettie Paige.

Bold Venture Press wants you to meet Jane Talley. She didn't get a $30 million advance for her book, and she's not going on a rock-star book tour. But on JANUARY 8, 2019, for the cost of a $9.95 paperback or e-book digital download, Jane Talley will begin to make the world better, with less violence and bigotry.

*A WAKE UP CALL FOR AMERICA … AN ANSWER TO VIOLENCE REDUCTION … LET’S GO!

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In retirement, Jane Talley shares her years working within a welfare system she says has systematically and purposely dismantled the Black American family.

"Uncle Sam Makes a Poor Baby Daddy" exposes the tragic misdeeds of the United States Government on a population of people, resulting in fifty-plus years of destruction of black families across the country.

Talley's observations pull back the curtain to reveal a methodical put-down of the black male in society and the resulting impoverished life styles imposed upon single black mothers and their children.

Talley, a pastor’s wife, mother and grandmother, offers solutions and hope. She suggests not relying on government or government programs for change, but on innovative strategies created by blacks for blacks based on Christian principles. Contact boldventurepress@aol.com for a Talley interview.

If anybody happens to be in Webster, Mass., on Oct. 27, stop by and meet
a new author published by my company BOLD VENTURE PRESS.

**In commemoration of the year-long Mickey Spillane centenary, BOLD VENTURE PRESS releases a newly revised and expanded edition of PRIMAL SPILLANE edited by Max Allan Collins and Lynn F. Myers, Jr.
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**This expanded collection is packed with 40 fast-moving short-short stories by the creator of Mike Hammer from 1941 - 1942, with never before reprinted material added since the original 2003 release — and this new edition carries a newly discovered, previously unpublished story by Spillane.
**Before Mike Hammer, P.I. made his explosive debut in I, the Jury, author Mickey Spillane (1918-2006) toiled in relative obscurity, writing short-short stories as filler material in Golden Age comic books. Their purpose to fulfill a postal requirement, these stories were the literary boot-camp for the future king of hard-boiled fiction.
**In this collection you’ll meet high-flying soldiers, a prospector exploring a Lovecraftian mine-shaft, a light-fingered con artist, an overworked cub reporter, a hapless exterminator, and many others.
**Readers have the opportunity to see a master develop his craft. Primal Spillane collects the earliest short stories bylined Mickey Spillane — Each story moves fast, and concludes with the trademark Spillane “socko finish.”
**Max Allan Collins is the author of the New York Times bestseller Saving Private Ryan. He is also the author of the Nathan Heller historical detective series, four novels about Eliot Ness and a number of true- crime novels. A multiple Shamus award-winner, an Edgar nominee, and an award-winning screenwriter, Collins wrote the syndicated comic strip “Dick Tracy” from 1977 through 1993. He lives in Iowa, where he is also an accomplished filmmaker. Road to Perdition is a series of fictional works written by Max Allan Collins.

The latest book I've had a hand in is Awesome Tales #7 Winter 2018 issue, with The Strange Adventures of Sherlock Holmes has found a new niche. The book is on sale on a cliff-top Connecticut castle, once the home of the late famous actor William Gillette. He played the Baker Street detective 1300 times on stage, in the first silent films and then in early talkies. After the actors' death, the castle and grounds became a state park and popular tourist attraction.

Awesome Tale #7 is now on sale in the gift shop at the castle.

The little $6 tome contains five new Sherlock short-stories and a historical article about the castle.
CONTENTS:1) "The Incident of the Wild West Witch" by R. Allen Leider ... Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson tour the U.S.A., and confront an unearthly menace during a stop in Tombstone, Arizona!
2) "The Long September Night" by Robert E. Waters ... Jack the Ripper is just a terrible memory in Whitechapel, but a woman comes to Sherlock Holmes claiming the monster still roams the night.
3) "A Pardonable Offense" by John L. French
A safecracker makes a deal with Sherlock Holmes and learns about honor.
4) "A Study in Evil" by Gary Lovisi ... Has Sherlock Holmes finally crossed the line and resorted to murder?
5) "The Yellow Thread" by DJ Tyrer ... Holmes and Watson confront a man determined to spread madness.
6) "The Man in Sherlock’s Castle" by Audrey Parente ... William Gillette portrayed the inscrutable detective on stage, and created a castle worthy of the Baskervilles.
Illustrations by Ed Coutts, design by Rich Harvey

HI THS CLASS OF '65. THERE WAS A LUNCH REUNION AT MOONLITE DINER IN FORT LAUDERDALE ON OCT. 9, 2017, BETWEEN BOBBY BADO AND AUDREY (RICCUCCI) PARENTE. PLEASE, IF ANYONE COMES TO FLORIDA, LOOK ME UP. audreypmother@yahoo.com 386-679-9801