Author Archives: David Bulitt

Writing CARD GAME was a ton of fun. Hard work, but I really enjoyed it.  My second book, BECAUSE I HAD TO, came a lot easier, despite its more complicated characters and contemporary story lines.  What I didn’t realize going in, however, was the amount of effort it would take to try to get CARD GAME out and to readers.  Between all the shameless social media self promotion, book store events, and emails to people who were kind enough to put their names on my mailing list, it really has become a part time job.  Thankfully, I don’t sleep much so after a full day in the divorce world, I usually spend my evenings pushing CARD GAME and writing my next story.

My favorite part of the process has unquestionably been the evenings that I have been able to spend with local book clubs and other groups, talking not only about CARD GAME and my own work, but also about what other books people are reading and enjoying.  The free beer and bourbon doesn’t hurt either.  I am looking forward to a few more book club events between now and the end of the year, while I hope to find a place in the market for “BECAUSE I HAD TO”.

DAVID BULITT will be among a few selected local authors to appear and speak at this year’s DCJCC Local Author Fair.

The event will take place on Tuesday, October 27, 2015 at 7:30 pm at the Washington DCJCC, located at 1529 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC.

The Fair is sponsored by the Jacob and Charlotte Lehrman Foundation with additional support from The Writer’s Center and the Johns Hopkins Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies.

Register for the event here:http://thejdc.convio.net/site/Calendar/1735465882?view=Detail&id=150822

Today marks Queen Elizabeth II’s 63rd year as the Queen of England, that nation’s longest reigning monarch. After all these years and despite not much to do, the Brits sure seem to love her. I thought it might be fun to look back at a few of England’s prior rulers who history does not treat so kindly:

Queen Mary I – they called her “Bloody Mary”. You figure it out.

Edward VIII – fell in love with an American, abdicated the throne, turned Nazi and moved to France. No good.

And, of course Henry, VIII. In case you missed all of the PBS specials and cable shows, here is a quick run through his wives:

1. Catherine – Too old. Too ugly. Henry sent her away. He later created a new church to grant an annulment when the Catholic Church wouldn’t. Why? Because he was smitten with…
2. Anne Boleyn – She was neither old nor ugly. Got her head chopped off.
3. Jane Seymour – Henry seemed to love her. In what might have been a bit of luck, she died soon after giving birth.
4. Anne of Cleves – Henry was convinced to marry her when he saw her portrait. Much like those a match.com and tinder photos, the portrait was, well, not accurate. The painter was beheaded, Henry’s marriage to Anne annulled.
5. Catherine Howard –First cousin of Anne Boleyn. Suffered the same unfortunate fate. Chop, chop.
6. Catherine Parr – the last of the six. She outlived Henry by a year. Lucky girl.

So, New Jersey is not getting sports books.  No legal gambling on sports events in The Garden State. The Atlantic City casinos, what’s left of them, are going to have to find some other way to avoid getting boarded up. My guess is that its going to take one long meeting with New Jersey’s Governor and floundering Presidential candidate, Chris Christie, for the Jersey power brokers to figure out that city’s problems. And, if they are going to do a sit down, there is no better place than the historic and iconic Tony’s Baltimore Grill.  Have the “guv’ spring for pies, plates of fried shrimp,a couple dozen meatballs and and all the cold Bud those characters can drink.  They’ll figure it out. Trust me.

Don’t forget to pick up your copy of CARD GAME and sit down at Tony’s with JB, Tom and all the boys.

In the last ten years, I have spent a lot of time, far too much some would say, sipping, mixing and talking about what has become my favorite spirit, American Bourbon. While there are a lot of bourbons out there, I like to think that there are more that I have tasted than those I have not.  Everyone needs a claim to fame, after all.

On a trip to Asbury Park, New Jersey earlier this summer, I fell in love.  No, not the Ashley Madison kind of love. Something different, deeper, more meaningful.  A relationship I know will last a lifetime.  My new girl, a woman for the ages, the Widow Jane. Dark and smooth, with a husky, Lauren Bacall way about her, the 8 year aged Widow Jane is the perfect bourbon to lean on late at night. A little chill in the air, nothing to hear but the crickets chirping. Spin a little Springsteen – I would go back maybe to the Wild and the Innocent record to get it all just right –  and sit back with couple fingers worth in a short glass. Don’t drink her fast, let the Widow linger a in your mouth a bit.  Trust me. You too will fall in love with the Widow.