The Muffia (28 page)

About The Author

Ann Royal Nicholas is an author (
Homegrown: The Terror Within
, published under the pseudonym Cialan Haasnic),
Royal Mack’s Teeny Tiny Wine Guide;
a journalist (
LA Times, Vine Times Magazine
), an essayist (“Of Wine and Men,” printed in Penguin’s
In My Mother’s Kitchen
)
an award-winning filmmaker (
Univers’l
), screenwriter (
Big Bang Theory
), playwright (
Villa Thrilla, Petting Zoo Story
) and actor. She’s a graduate of the UCLA Writers Program, former Managing Director of the Ojai Playwrights Conference, a mediator and single mom.

Find out more at annroyalnicholas.com and annanicholas.com

The Muffia By Ann Royal Nicholas

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and events are products of the author’s imagination; historical names and information, should either appear, are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, locations or events is strictly coincidental.

Copyright 2007 by Ann Royal Nicholas

Published by Bournos 2015

Los Angeles, CA

Paperback and Kindle editions first published by Water Street Press 2012

Printed in the United States of America

Cover Design by Fred Baxter

Interior format by The Killion Group

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ISBN No. 978-0-9907080-0-1

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