It
probably deserves little mention to the readers of this blog, but
again I point out how vehemently my biography of Rudolph Valentino,
Affairs Valentino has
been lied about. Knowing I was marketing the book online, the “team”
as they referred to themselves began to load the internet with lies
about Affairs
Valentino, about me,
about my husband Renato Floris and many of our friends and business
affiliates. This was all in an effort to bury the book they did and
still do not want you to read.
Although
I have spent the past decade of my life defending us from these lies
and working to have the truth be known, it has been challenging at
best.
We
recently made the decision to record Affairs
Valentino (“The
Book They Don't Want You To Read”) on a designated podcast to ensure the book be forever disassociated from the lies. I remain passionate Affairs Valentino be known in a truthful light and I think, if it were possible, I would have walked door to door to hand out copies; "Johnny Affairs Valentino Appleseed"?
Above
all we are motivated to have the important content of the book be known and
the story enjoyed and as soon as possible. For that was always my
primary goal, to write an entertaining and documented book within the genre of narrative non-fiction.
David
Bret has spent years crowing that there is “homophobia dripping
from every page” and Tracy Ryan Terhune will tell anyone within
earshot that Affairs
Valentino is “Pure
Fiction” and if he is in a particularly aggressive mood he will
tell anyone within earshot Affairs
Valentino is “Pure
Trash Fiction.” Both of these men and their minions try and fail to
portray Affairs
Valentino, me and my
husband Renato as something we are not. The book is documented, a
labor of non-fiction with my sources always being made publicly
available. New sources such as Valentino's probate court records, the
testimony of the Ullman and Mennillo families, motion picture
archives in the U.S and in Italy, Campbell's Funeral Home, etc.
Fiction
is it not. I add we have just posted a link in the caption of each Affairs Valentino podcast installment which links to the 40 pages of end
notes of the sources I used to create the story and narrative. And I
say to Tracy Ryan Terhune that creating a scenario to contextualize a
narrative, does not make it fictionalized. If I were to write a
dramatic description of how I walked my dog this morning, it does not
mean it did not happen. I worked hard to make Affairs Valentino
truthful and interesting. The last thing I wanted to do was write a
long and boring report on all the documentation I found. Who would
read that? No one.
I
hope in sharing the recordings of the reading of my book, the truth
about the content will be more widely known.
Find
the “Affairs Valentino” podcast @
https://soundcloud.com/user-215352639
And
find your copy of our new book, Jeanne
DeRequeville's Rudolph Valentino in English!
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