June 2018!!!

 Happy June 2018!!! Meaning It's Father's Day and the first day of summer. With that said, I wish all the father's a Happy Father's Day! Let's say a huge hello to June of 2018!!! I can't believe that good old summer is here. What's been going!?!? I'm writing a NEW BOOK, with hopes to be fished by this fall. I'm also getting ready for a huge road trip to Las Vegas for the mobworld summit, seeing family and friends. Wishing you all the very best in June. Enjoy the sweet start of summertime!

~Alexandra 

Q&A sit down for A Mafia Romance!

Yesterday, I did a fun Q&A sit down with A Mafia Romance blog on facebook and I wanted to share my answers with all of you. 

AMR: What prompted you to consider writing in the Mafia genre as opposed to other genres?
Alexandra:
I have to say that I grew up in Las Vegas. I'm a Vegas girl at heart. My family has been living in Las Vegas since 1956. I grew with tails about the Mafia my grandma best friend owns a clock shop next to the gold rush that was own by none other than the Las Vegas Mafia boss Tony Spilotro.
I was really got into the Mafia after I watch the movie CASINO that has Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Sharon Stone. I was inspired by the affair of Joe Pesci, and Sharon Stone's characters, sitting there watching the movie, wondering what if... If they were star-cross lover's? That how I got into the Mafia genre. I also was handed a once in a lifetime opportunity with Frank Cuttolla who was Tony Spilotro' Best Friend and right-hand man back in the day's when Spilotor ruled Las Vegas. 
***Note to the reader's Joe Pesic' character in Casino is base on Tony Spilotor 

AMR: Who is your favorite in Timeless Omerta? Why?
Alexandra:
I really feel Victor pain about not flowing in his father, Tony's footsteps in the underworld but life has other plans for him. How he always loved Adrian who was the daughter of Evelyn, his father's lover. I really enjoy writing his parts.  

AMR: In Pit Boss, Ricky is portrayed as a pit boss but in reality, he is head of Italian Mafia family. We don't see this angle for a “Boss” very much in the Mafia genre. Why a pit boss? 
Alexandra:
To find out this answer, you'll have to read the book! ;)

AMR: What do you want readers to know about you as an author?
Alexandra:
I was born with cerebral palsy. I always tell people that I may have CP but CP doesn't have me. I also a hopeless romantic, that have been writing since I can remember. When I was fourteen I got my own computer that wasn't for school work so I was always on it writing short stories and all of that.
Now I am working on bettering my writing style using colorful, picturesque words. I want to do much better.

AMR: I understand you have an interesting family history. Tell us about it.
Alexandra:
Oh yes, I do (but they are not my biological family) To me they are my family. I've met Frank Cuttolla at The Mob Museum and he took me right under his wing; As he helps me with my book Timeless Omerta, (then it was called Omerta  Affair.) Frank never forgot about me, while he invited me to this and that.  Frank happily came to my own family parties, like my 25th birthday party. Our friendship grew into a love that's shared with an uncle and his niece. I love ya, Uncle Frank... 
One night that shall stay with me forever. I was at a party at the old Las Vegas's Mob Attraction in the Tropicana. That night I met someone Ronald Fino, he was ex-CIA and FBI and he was there to do a speck about his unbelievable life. To not into painful details about my person's life, Ronald was there while I need a home really badly. That was two years ago I'm happily can say that I'm apart of his wonderful family as his loving daughter.  To me he is like a father that I never had, I called him my dad.
My dad, Ronald Fino, has a wonderful book out about his life that he had written title The Triangle Exit that now is a documentary coming out this August of 2018... Called Mr. Undercover. Make sure to watch it because I have a bit of a part in it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boblW8t4wCI&list=PL2H7SLQIeFP2_pfttM4rN2BiKqdcG47fG
***Note to add my Dad and my Uncle Frank help out big time with the movie Casino. My Dad helps out Robert De Niro to get ready for his part in the movie and Uncle Frank Joe Pesci out for his part in the move. Uncle Frank was always on the movie set of Casino. He had told me stories about him helping out the Martin Scorsese filming the movie.
I know for a woman that has cerebral palsy I do lead a fascinating life! Sometimes I wonder how did I end up living this life.  

AMR: How many books have you authored and what are they in order of release dates?
Alexandra:
I am happy to say that I have five books and one screenplay out.

Timeless Omerta: With Great Beauty comes Great Danger (use to be title Omerta Affair)  that came out in July 2013

Wildflower - Came out in March 2014

Pit Boss An Screenplay - Came out in May 2016

Confessions of Us - Came out in June 2016

Pit Boss An Novel - Came out in November 2016

Troop 470 - Came out in November 2016

AMR: Do you have plans to release any of your books on other platforms such as audiobook?
Alexandra:
You never know about me. I'm hoping too, finger cross.

AMR: What releases do you have scheduled for the near future? 
Alexandra:
Working on a few projects. I hope to get one done before October of this year, well that's my goal as of now. 

AMR: What hobbies do you enjoy? 
Alexandra:
I love and enjoyed coloring, I love being outside, dancing like nobody is watching in my backyard. I'm a huge movie buff. 

AMR: What advice do you have for authors who are attempting to make a name for themselves in this business? 
Alexandra:
Follow your heart and your passion to write. Get involved with other fellows authors groups via FaceBook or your local writer's group. I always am happy to answer any questions that one might have. 

Thank you for having me and my book on this wonderful blog all week long :) 
Best Wishes, Alexandra Forry

Happy May Day! ~*~

Two years of living life in Wonderful Williamburg.

WOW, Time flys by fast when you are living a wonderful and sweet life in Williamsburg!!!

two years ago past midnight after a long flight across the USA. I first came here to live and now I don't want to live anywhere else, yeas I'm saying Williamsburg is where my heart. I so happy I had decided to move here and let me tell you all that it was last minute decision and I did not know anything about what Williamsburg has to offer. It was pure dumb luck that turns out to the BEST decide that I made for myself!

I've lived all over and I have to happily say that WILLIAMSBURG is the BEST place to live if you had a handicap!!!Because of the Arc of greater Williamsburg, our local news media is away reporters about what we are doing and now we have a special column in our local magazine about one of us with a handicap.

I have never lived in a town where they treated people like me like they do here.   

I want to list the best Places and Moments over the past two years.

1. The Arc of Greater Williamsburg~ They are just an awesome group to be a part of, so many fun memories that I had with my Arc Family. They help me change the way I look at my CP and other people with a handicap. 

2. Colonial Williamsburg ~ Oh I love downtown Williamsburg. It like going back in time. I recalled one amazing 4th of July, walking around, sitting in a bar having a drink with my dad, sitting on the grass and watching the fireworks goes off, I felt like I was back time witnessing the very first 4th of July in history!  

3. College of William & Mary ~ Though the Arc we have a great relationship with this outstanding college, that I came to love. Going to sports games and parties!!!!!! GO TRIBE!!!!!!

4. Jamestown Settlement ~ I've always loved the move Disney's Pocahontas as a little girl. Walking around when Pocahontas walked was purely amazing. Ever thought the movie's background landscape was not 100% true. I was bum out that the waterfall in the movie was made up.   

5. Busch Gardens ~ Whom can say that they have a world-class theme park that Seaworld own in their town? I'm also going to it this Sunday with my Arc gang!

6. The Watermen's Museum in Yorktown VA~ Love going there in the summertime with friends having a blast as the pretty sunset over the water.  

As for the very best thing that happens was filming my Dad's move, MR. UNDERCOVER!!!!!!

What I'm doing since Easter!?!?!

~Me in my Easter Sunday best 4/1/2018~

I've have been to busy to post anything since Easter Sunday. I hope that each and everyone had a nice and peaceful Easter like I did. 🐤🐣🐥💐🥚🌷🌹🌸🌼🌻

That next Saturday was my birthday, I turned 28 years old! It was a very fantastic birthday with such wonderful Birthday Wishes and amazing gifts! 🎈🎂 I thank god for another year on earth with my beloved Family and Friends all over!!!! I got so many wonderfully different coloring books because they are like jewelry to me. Also, I raise some money for my Arc Chapter as a Birthday Fundraiser on Facebook. 😊😊😊

"My Beloved leader Bette-Faye with W&M Women's Basketball team"

At The Arc, we did something very cool, have our basketball camp at Kaplan Arena at The College of William and Marry! That was pure amazing playing basketball on a real college basketball court. I thought of my Grandma Forry. She was a HUG UNLV Runnin Rebels Basketball fan. She never missed a game when they play at home. I know that night she was smiling down at me from heaven knowing that I couldn't make a basket for all the tea in China. I've had a great time. 😉😉😉

Then I went to see the musical "Into The Woods" with my family last Thursday night. I just loved it. What a wonderful play, better the 2014 Disney movie if you asked me. I love going to see plays since I was younger but this was the very best so far. 🎭🎭🎭🎭🎭

Waiting to see the play!

On Easter, there was an announcement on Facebook that my father figure, Ronald Fino thatI'm beyond proud to call him my Dad, was the first one to be announced as a speaker at The Mob Summit in Las Vegas on June 15 to the 17. The best part is that I'm going with him!!!I am not planning on selling any books, Just going to have a blast!

On a FUN ending note.  I’m looking forward to my trip to Bush Gardens on May 6 with my Arc Gang!!! 🎡🎢🎠🎡🎢🎠

~Alexandra Forry 🦋

Happy Easter Weekend!

~*~ Happy Easter Holiday Weekend!!! ~*~

Let's celebrate with photos that I made or found on Pinterest. I love looking for Shabby Chic or Vintage pictures!!!! This Easter is low key at my home with my family. Dying eggs, 🥚 Eating lamb (for the first time),  Having fine wine 🍷 and ALWAYS watching a great movie!!! 🍿

Be Happy, Be Loving, Be Safe!!!!

🐤🐣🐥💐🥚🌷🌹🌸🌼🌻

"All the best at Easter!" 

"Today is PASSOVER! To my Jewish Friends here on here...Wishing you joy and many blessings
at Passover and throughout the year!" 

"This never gets old!"

"My babies up in heaven together this Easter."

"Oh, yeah HAPPY APRIL FOOLS!! I almost forgot!
Two Holidays on one day!!!"

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Birthday Dream

NEXT WEEK IS MY BIRTHDAY!~ 

This year for my 28 birthday, I decided to have this fundraiser to donate to something really special to my heart. <3 The Are of Greater Williamsburg is my 2nd family! the Arc has changed my life for the better, make me a better person. I'm busy at the Arc always going to sporting events like, Basketball, Baseball, Car-Racing, doing the one-mile walk for the Arc 5k! We are very involved with the community and the outstanding college students of William and Mary. We celebrate every Holiday together and just have blast! I really want to reach my goal and I hope that you might help me out! Thanks, Alexandra 🌷🌷🌷🌷🦋🦋🦋🌸🌸🌸

https://www.facebook.com/donate/213452866081175/

or more information about this outstanding group; go to...  

 

https://www.thearcgw.org/ 

Happy Late CP day 2018

Today is Cerebral Palsy Awareness Day and this my life story! 

My umbilical cord wrapped around cutting off the air circulation to my brain. The doctors told my family that I would never even talk, walk, or live a normal life. Little did they know. I started talking out of the blue, soon I began to walk on my knees.

I used a walker and a wheelchair when I was young, until one day at a park I was sitting on the grass watching all of my cousins play and then it happens like this, I got up on two feet and walked over to play. My whole family was blown away by this, some say it was an act of god.
 At first, I was enrolled at a special school for handicap kids, but then my parents took me out and I enter a normal school, where I used a walker all thru my school years because of my balance and the crowded school's hallway. While at an elementary school, I had a special desk, my teachers had to cut down my school work because I use up 3 to 5 times the amount of energy that people use without Cerebral Palsy. In middle and high school I was able to keep up with my school work and could sit in a normal school desk. 

I was bullied at school, One day some boy throw a hard golf ball at the back of my head. one girl kicks the back of my chair in the middle of history class in 8th grade, just because of my cerebral palsy. Let put an end to school bullying!! Also, teacher and teacher aids were bullies to me as well. Tell me that “I can’t do anything when I grow up.” I also had a learning disability too I have four Special Ed classes in middle school. Yet I loved going to school. 

Growing up with Cerebral Palsy was hard on me because people always made fun of me or people treated me like a baby. I was Homeschooled in high-school years missing all of the rites of passages. I was not happy that my parents homeschool me at all. I used to think that I was the only one with Cerebral Palsy. I was abused in every way that that is possible BUT SOMEHOW I MADE IT THROW IT, WITH THE HELP OF GOD AND MY ANGLES that gave me power and lead me to my beloved home in Williamsburg!!! 

All my life I have always wanted to be an author when I grew up because I always had a story up in my head. With The help of some of my dear friend’s, I’m happy to say that I have romance books out on Amazon.com!!! It's all began on my 22 birthday, I went the newly open Mob Museum and to my shock, Frank Cuttolla was there signing his book. I meet him and told him that I want to be a Mafia-Romance and he told me that if I need help just let him know. I said okay thinking he has better things to do than helping me a young CP girl at the time. I found him on Facebook weeks later and we began to talk, he always inviting me to this and that. I base my fist book Timeless Omerta off on Tony Spilotro’s reign as the Las Vegas Mafia boss, in the 1970s. He had it all, running the Crime underworld. He could have any woman he wanted in Las Vegas, instead, he became romantically Geri Rosenthal. At first, it was a Casino FanFic that I was witting and putting online for free, but my family and friend told me it was way too good to be a fanfic. After I was done with my book Frank hooked me up with some people and that how my book came to be. Now he’s Uncle Frank to me. ❤ I have some pretty astonishing friends & family who love me for me.

CHEER'S TO CEREBRAL PALSY DAY 2018!!!! 🍾🍾🍾 


"ANYTHING WONDERFUL CAN HAPPEN NO MATTER IF YOU HAVE CEREBRAL PASTY OR NOT."

#GoGreen4CP

Inside and finding Blessed to be Unwanted

Let's stared off with Blessed to be Unwanted book Summary

 by Author Candace Webb-Henderson!

Blessed to Be Unwanted is an inspirational account, which highlights the heroism of one woman’s love for children and humanity during and after WWII. It is a true story written by Candace Henderson, the daughter of the baby who was handed over to strangers on a street corner, at only five days old - A testament to how an unwanted child can leave a legacy by following her dreams and living her life to the fullest. In the end, love prevails through many challenges and a triumph over her fears, grief and loss – and the world is a better place because of her. 
Blessed to Be Unwanted offers hope to go after life in a big way! Why live small when someone who has experienced the same feelings and discovered lots of happiness can inspire you?

Okay, my readers, it's more than a story. One day I was chatting with my cousin on my father side of the family one day and she went on to tell me this; "Have you heard of Aunt Joan? (Joni) She was a sibling that they didn't know they had until years later---I just found another cousin's Candy Webb Henderson & Connie Mitchell---they are my twin cousin's I didn't know I had either---Candy just wrote a Book also---about her Mom's story and Your Great Grandmother Iva"

If you know me at all FAMILY MEANS THE WORLD TO ME.  So I looked it up on Amazon.com and have to this because it was about my Great-Aunt and my Great-Grandma. I felt like I need to read this because I remember when I was around 15, My grandma Joyce told me that she has a sister that her mother gave away.

 I got in touch with Candy and she sends me my very own copy of BLESSED TO BE UNWANTED and I've received my copy last night and when I open this book up to the page that had a picture of my own grandma as a little girl on it! I was moved to tears since she passes on in 2011 and I never got to kiss my grandma goodbye.

Looking forward to reading this book. Thank-You Candy!

~Great Grandma Iva, Grandma Joyce with her brothers ~