CityLife Books

Former CityLife Editor and R-J staffer Geoff Schumacher recently posted a past interview with Vu Tran, one of our Restless City authors. Though Geoff and Vu have both since left Sin City for broader horizons and greater challenges, their conversation about writing, and the authors who have influenced Tran in his relatively young, but remarkable career, is well worth reading. It is obvious that we will be hearing much more about this Whiting Writers’ Award winner! For the complete interview, click here.

The first title published by CityLife Books will be available for purchase on Saturday at the Vegas Valley Book Festival. It’s $14.95.

Restless City is a serial novel written by seven respected Las Vegas authors, each of whom contributed a chapter. The novel, set in Las Vegas falls into the crime noir category, but the writers are not necessarily practitioners in that genre.

The writers are, in order of appearance, H. Lee Barnes, John H. Irsfeld, Brian Rouff, Leah Bailly, John L. Smith, Constance Ford and Vu Tran. Barnes and Irsfeld are members of the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. Tran recently won a Whiting Writer’s Award. Smith is a respected newspaper columnist and nonfiction author, while Rouff is a successful novelist and public relations executive. Bailly and Ford are award-winning fiction writers. Geoff Schumacher, editor of CityLife Books, served as coordinator and editor of Restless City.

If you would like to buy a copy of Restless City, drop by the Stephens Press (parent of CityLife Books) booth Saturday or Sunday at the Fifth Street School in downtown Las Vegas. The book also is available for purchase online at Amazon and restlesscity.com.

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The authors of Restless City will be assembling at 4 p.m. Saturday at the festival for a panel discussion about the writing of the novel and for a debut reading of the seventh and final chapter.