I have written my first short story for publication, for the annual Las Vegas Writes project's upcoming seventh volume, "The Anarchy of Memories." 
The editor is former Review-Journal writer and editor Geoff Schumacher, and the other writers are Scott Dickensheets, Sonya Padgett, Jessica Humphries, Drew Cohen, C.J. Mosher, Erica Vital-Lazare and Helen H. Moore. 
My story is a futurist's satire about a giant bedbug wreaking havoc on the robot population of Las Vegas.
And on today's podcast episode of the "Doug Elfman Show," I quiz Schumacher extensively about his favorite novels and authors, good books about Vegas and the mob, and we wonder which kinds of books political conservatives write better than liberal authors. 
Schumacher himself wrote "Howard Hughes: Power, Paranoia & Palace Intrigue," and Sun, Sin & Suburbia: The History of Modern Las Vegas."
And he's director of content at the Mob Museum. "The Anarchy of Memories" comes out October 16 at Writer's Block, 1020 Fremont St., during the Vegas Valley Book Festival.
Find out more about Geoff at geoffschumacher.com and themobmuseum.org and I'm always at DougElfman.com.