It’s been a busy week. It looks like I’m a little closer to getting Uneasy Convictions signed. I’m now 28 pages into chapter 2 of Roll The Bones, and hope to have most of the chapter on paper by the end of the weekend.
In other news, I did a TV shoot for Equator HD on Wednesday down at Green Valley Ranch. GVR, of course, is the star of American Casino, which is running a marathon on the Discovery Channel tomorrow. The PR guy who facilitated the shoot there, David DeMontillion, is featured pretty prominently in American Casino–while he was setting up the area, he was actually stopped by a patron who asked, “Are you that guy on TV?” It was a bit surreal, because the person working for the casino to help the camera crew shoot the interview was actually far more famous than the subject of the interview.
A funny moment, which you won’t see on TV (unless I really pissed the producer off) was when I stopped, mid-answer, and did a double take. Off camera, some people were watching me, and this guy went to scratch his nose, but it looked to me for a second like he was giving me the finger. Funny stuff.
I also was part of a panel on casinos and families today on State of Nevada.
The big news for me is the fact that I am now officially a Playboy author. I signed a contract for an article about Howard Hughes in Nevada that will be in the January issue. I’m not going to give away all of the details, but this is a never-before-told firsthand account of Hughes that should raise quite a few eyebrows. I don’t know whether a visit to the Mansion is included in the whole deal (actually, I quite doubt it), but at the very least I can hope. It would, after all, make for a great post here.