After more than 40 years as a professional writer, I decided I had run out of things to say. I asked myself, “What am I good at besides writing original content?”
The answer was obvious and simple: editing and proofreading because that is what I have done almost every day for more than 40 years. Only now I wanted to do it for someone else, and of course (since I am not a Communist), get paid to do so.
It started back in the mid-1970’s after I was released from military service in the United States Navy and had gotten married. I had always wanted to be a pro athlete, but because of a lack of exceptional talent, I became a sportswriter instead.
In 1976, I got my first gig as a sports columnist for the East Villager in Lower Manhattan. Since then, I have written for the New York Tribune, Ring Magazine, the Times-Herald Middletown Record, Penthouse Magazine, the Cyberboxingzone, and Travelgolf.com. I have also written 48 books, fiction and nonfiction, including bios on Muhammad Ali, Whitey Bulger, Jimmy Hoffa, Virginia Hill, Bonnie Parker, Crazy Joe Gallo, and the murder of Martha Moxley.
From 1982-86, I was elected as the Vice President of the Boxing Writers of America, and also the International Boxing Writers Association.
In 1986, I was honored by Ring 8 as the Boxing Writer of the Year, and in 1987, I received the same honor from the Association For the Improvement of Boxing.
In 2013, my 5-part series "Mobsters, Gangs, Crooks, and Other Creeps," finished runne