My First Time: Philip Cioffari

My First Time: A Long Time Coming
Id waited many, many years before it happenedwhat I like to call, to borrow a term from baseball, a triple play. Mine was the literary/dramatic version. The year was 2005.

Its easy now that my fifth novel, If Anyone Asks, Say I Died from the Heartbreaking Blues , is being published to forget or minimize the time and effort it took me to get here. As Ive said, prior to the triple play I want to tell you about, Id been writing a long time.

Upon completion of my...