Length:
75,000 Words

Genre:
Anthology of Chicago-based Short Stories

Sentence:
Whimsical, haunting, riveting, and erotically charged tales of life in and around the Windy City.

Blurb/Logline:
When author/editor D. J. Herda left Chicago, he took a big part of the city with him.  Now he has unleashed it in all its wild-and-wooly, sexually charged, hit-and-hit-harder glory.  These tales are hauntingly vivid, running the gamut from Crime and Punishment to Humor and Coming-of-Age in the Windy City. 

Synopsis:

(Note: To sample some of the stories, see below)

1/ The Fisherman
2/ The Tenants
3/ The Union
4/ The Great Duplicity Affair
5/ Double Jeopardy

Bio:
D. J. Herda is an award-winning, full-time professional writer/journalist with more than 40 years of writing and editing experience.  He is author of more than 80 published books and several hundred thousand short pieces, in addition to several screen plays, stage plays, and audio and video scripts.  He currently serves as president of the American Society of Authors and Writers (http://amsaw.org), is a member of The Author's Guild, and is a former member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the Washington Press Club.

Miscellaneous
Former ghost writer for Ronnie Schell, Lawrence Welk, Art Linkletter, etc.  Former ghost writer/photographer for Sammy Davis Jr.  Scriptwriter for educational and consumer cable television, in-flight airline, etc. 

Film: 
This story was written visually, with strong character and scene elements and naturally occurring dramatic breaks.  Its dialogue is hip, pointed, quirky, and humorous, and the scenes contain good descriptive passages for visualization purposes.  Several producers have expressed interest in seeing the book. 

Additional:
Herda is one of the best fiction writers working today.