About The Author


Frank Conrad Musumici / Frankie M. Frank Conrad Musumici is an award-winning Singer/Songwriter and a Recording/Performing Artist whose career began in High School in Hoboken, New Jersey. Frank was co-founder, bass player and lead singer of The Vee Jays; Hoboken's first recording band with several singles (45 rpm) to their fame. The next 50 years found Frankie M. (his stage name) working on stage and in the studio with such notables as Rodney Dangerfield, Andy Kaufman, Joey Vann (of The Duprees) and Nick Massi (of the Four Seasons), The Drifters, The Duprees, The Dells, Johnny Maestro & The Brooklyn Bridge, the Elegants, and The Angels, just to name a few. Frankie's New York appearances included: The Don K. Reed show on WCBS FM, Dangerfields, Catch a Rising Star and Pips (in Brooklyn). Frankie organized and fronted Harborside; pioneers in the Doo Rock music style (solid Doo Wop vocal harmonies and driving rock rhythms). The band produced 3 albums plus a single: Solitaire, which won a best song award from The Akademia Music Awards. At present Frank can be found performing along the Jersey Shore circuit with his one man show or in a vocal duo with his beautiful and talented singing partner: Sherilyn Metzger Przelomski. Frankie has received nearly 100 recording and performance awards. From New York, Hollywood, Las Vegas, Nashville and even London, England. These included: The Producers Choice Honors: Outstanding Songwriter Award and Outstanding Solo Lounge Performer Award. To date, Frank has released over a dozen albums and nearly 50 singles. As an author, he received Best Inspirational Poem, Best Short Story and Best Fictional Book awards from The Akademia Literary Awards. Franks book:"Events of an Ordinary Life", was published by Austin Macauley Publishers, London. It won a Best Fictional Book Award from The Akademia Literary Awards Frank has been a licensed Private Detective for over 40 years.
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Events of An Ordinary Life Re-Issue

By Frank Conrad Musumici

Overview


A private detective's real case files. Supernatural transformations. Ordinary people pulled into the extraordinary. Events of an Ordinary Life is a genre-crossing story collection where fact and imagination blur. Drawing on decades as a licensed New Jersey private investigator, Frank Conrad Musumici turns fragments of real cases into a wide-ranging collection of short fiction, some rooted in his own files, some conjured entirely from his imagination. Characters are transformed in strange and unsettling ways. Everyday lives tip suddenly into the uncanny. Readers who love literary short fiction, supernatural and speculative tales, or detective fiction will find something built for them in nearly every story. Winner, Best Fiction Book, Akademia Literary Awards, 2021.
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Description


A private detective's real case files. Supernatural transformations. Ordinary people pulled into the extraordinary. Events of an Ordinary Life is a genre-crossing story collection where fact and imagination blur. Drawing on decades as a licensed New Jersey private investigator, Frank Conrad Musumici turns fragments of real cases into a wide-ranging collection of short fiction, some rooted in his own files, some conjured entirely from his imagination. Characters are transformed in strange and unsettling ways. Everyday lives tip suddenly into the uncanny. Readers who love literary short fiction, supernatural and speculative tales, or detective fiction will find something built for them in nearly every story. Winner, Best Fiction Book, Akademia Literary Awards, 2021.
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Book details

  • Genre:fiction
  • Sub-genre:Short Stories
  • Language:English
  • Pages:256
  • eBook ISBN:9798317835279
  • Paperback ISBN:9798317835262