How
did Omerta Affair come to be?
"It should have been so sweet. Everything was in place. We were given paradise on earth, but we fucked it all up." -Frank Cullotta
Living in Las Vegas, Nevada, I had grown up with all of the stories from family and friends about how the mafia kings and queens were living the high life before greed, envy, destroyed them from within. As I started to dig into my city’s past, I became fascinated with the affair between Tony Spilotro and Geri Rosenthal, and it started me thinking, what if they were star-crossed lovers? How would it turn out?
Tony Spilotro and Geri
Rosenthal: Date unknown
This was all at the back of my mind since I was working on another project at the time. One night I was very bored, so I decided to try my hand at writing a Fanfiction to the 1995 movie Casino--a short story on my interpretation of the Nicky and Ginger’s affair. Then I thought to take it forward a generation and let their children (Ginger's daughter and Nicky's son) sift through the intrigue that colored their parents' lives.
I called it, Journey to the Past: A Casino Fanfic (That’s not up anymore)
I was spending all of my time researching and writing this Fanfiction. All of my family and friends just loved the story. By then I had three chapters on Fanfiction and a fourth chapter ready to go. My family felt it should continue in book form. Journey to the past no longer described the content of the manuscript, and then I found it! Omerta affair! It was the perfect fit for the storyline. What a fabulous experience this has been! It is a marvelous journey that continues! - Alexandra
