• Atmosphere Press (June 6, 2022)
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American, Michael Ventura became a world-wide sensation at 18 performing the old standards and love songs by the celebrated crooners.

His life became a roller coaster of acclaim, love, and loss. But when his grandfather needed him, he came back to Aurelio’s vineyard near Siena, Italy where as a 10-year-old, he first met feisty Sophia. In Siena My Love, we experience Michael and Sophia’s successes, failures, and disappointments. As adults, they are on different career and relationship paths until Michael returns to Tuscany.

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That terrible night in 1980 is Annie Roling’s “baptism by fire”. As the new ER administrator, she tackles the chaotic aftermath of the murder of the music icon, media madness, missing evidence and the suspicious death of a John Doe in the very next room. She becomes ‘Vigil-Annie’, an amateur criminal investigator, risking her life, her daughter’s safety and her career to solve this and future crimes.

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Leave Six Inches is the humorous story of a boy growing up in Brooklyn through his adolescent years in the 1950’s Happy Days. It follows Tom Romano, a first-generation Italian American in a Catholic High School, as he navigates the mystery of life that males have always found a puzzlement…. Females.

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Censorship has played a major role in determining the images of Irish republicanism that have been presented on screen, thereby influencing contemporary views of Irish nationalism. This work analyzes how the censorship process has developed since 1909 in the United Kingdom and the United States and examines the portrayal of the Irish on film and television. It further explores how this censored material has perpetuated stereotypes of Irish republicans and the impact these stereotypes have made on contemporary culture.