City on a Star book 2: The Betrothal of Usk

With the end of the Galactic Matriarchy, Vir’ism has risen, centered on Hesperia, the City on a Star. But one leader, Mart Kell, is out of power, while another, the Great Father, Ay’r, is quietly retired.

On a small resort planet with a rainbow of rings, Ay’r Eise’nstein-Kell, a 16-year-old boy, air skates across the sands, dreaming of escape to the famed City on a Star. When the rulers of the galaxy-wide republic and their glamorous entourages arrive on Usk to celebrate a great betrothal, Ay’r finds himself thrust into their midst but even deeper into dynastic schemes and power manipulations he cannot understand. Except when they are revealed to be perilous to his freedom and to his life.

Abused and alone, he flees with few resources but knowledge into the unique dangers of The Great Salt Ocean of Usk. There, he will find all the adventure a boy could want. He’ll also discover the plight of the oppressed worker-species, the pamps, who have long awaited their Messiah, and he will discover who he really is: could Ay’r be The One?

Meanwhile, Kri’nni, heiress to the defeated Bella-Arth empire, escapes her long bondage and plots her return. Holt, the youngest son of the Great Father, a playboy known as “The Cadet,” flees the media circus of his life for a mission into the heart of the galaxy in search of a new source of the Beryllium ore that makes galaxy-wide communication and travel possible. What else will he find to reinvigorate the new Ib’r society?

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THE BETROTHAL AT USK by Felice Picano
Book 2: City on a Star trilogy
Kindle: B099MYM6WB / ePub: 978-1-951092-39-9
Print: 406 pgs • 978-1-951092-40-5
e-Book $5.95 • Print US$19.95
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Frightening Stories?

How about Felice Picano’s ghost stories? His book Looking Glass Lives? Or his much anthologized short stories—“Hunter,”Absolute Ebony,”Room Nine,”Uneasy Spirits”. and “Nightly Visitor?”

Then you will love Picano’s new novelette, “After Sunset in the Second Parlor Garden” just published along with 8 other scary pieces by other authors in the brand new collection Cutting Block: Single Slices Volume 1. On sale August 25th, 2017

Picano sets his very contemporary new tale in the high risk, winner takes all world of TV series today. When a newlywed couple of television writers move into a house in Beverly Hills that’s never been on the market, they are not prepared for those strange whisperings in the lovely little attached garden. -- And anyway what harm could a little gossip do?....

Cutting Block Single Slices, Volume 1, edited by Patrick Beltane
Kindle Edition $3.99, paperback edition $12.95
ISBN 978-0-9961159-2-6
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“A well crafted gateway to works of the strange, the unsettling, the terrifying, Highly recommended for readers who enjoy a bit of macabre with their literary taste."   –Bram Stoker Award winner Eric J. Guignard

Salvador Dalí, Jerome Robbins, Jackie Onassis. Gregory Peck, Mick Jagger—S. J. Perelman—I. M. Pei. Philip Johnson, Josephine Baker, John Lennon: they, and so many more who made New York City the center of the universe in the 1970s, all had one thing in common besides their adopted hometown—they shopped at a legendary palace of books, music and art: Rizzoli Books at 712 Fifth Avenue. There, Kennedys and Rockefellers mingled with tourists and “regular” customers under the watchful gaze of sophisticated employees, themselves a multi-talented, international collection of artists, scholars and rogues.

Nights at Rizzoli is the memoir of Felice Picano, an aspiring but near-starving young writer who in 1971 lucked into a part-time job at the stunningly elegant store via a friend. It metamorphosed into a life-changing experience, one that exposed him to some of the brightest lights in the world’s cultural capital. At the store, he himself became a key player on a stage that opened every night to a new drama that often featured romance, at times violence, and of course always the books and their readers.

And when his shift was over, in this post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS era, the handsome young bookstore manager stepped from one world into another, prowling the piers, bars and very private clubs of a different New York City.

Author: Felice Picano
224 pages, including 5 black & white photographs
Paperback ISBN 978-1-939293-67-1 • E-book 978-1-939293-68-8
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People and Places from My Past

Award-winning author Felice Picano returns with a new collection of memoirs, True Stories Too: People and Places from My Past, expanding his highly praised portraits and anecdotes to reveal histories of his family, friends, and lovers. In this new volume Picano also delights with wonderful new tales of the many places he has lived in and visited, including New York, California, Rhode Island, Germany, and Japan.

Author: Felice Picano
Pages: 278, paperback
Pub Date: June 17, 2014

ISBN-10: 1937627152
ISBN-13: 978-1937627157
Chelsea Station Editions $15.00
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“Felice Picano, as his name suggests, is both a happy and piquant memoirist. Gifted with a prodigious memory and an inexhaustible curiosity, Picano observes everything—Japan, Berlin, his own family—in a fresh and indelible way.”
          —Edmund White