Fiction

• Easy Come, Easy Go, Collected short stories including "Larry Lives," "Gators," "The Innocent Bachelor Friend." and "Sex Causes Cromosome Damage."
• "Call Me Wiggins," a contribution to  My Sherlock Holmes (St. Martin’s Press ), edited by Michael Kurland

Nonfiction

• The Ultimate Guide to Independent Record Labels & Artists (Pharos Books)

The Ultimate Guide . . .is a simple, handy access guide to astounding music available through independent record companies.

 The Ultimate Guide . . . presents the best, the most interesting, the most fascinating, the most unusual, the most noteworthy, the quirky, the sublime, and the obscure.
Explore the indies and find treasures of rock, folk, classical, world music , jazz, new age, and more.

Pianist Andre Watts said, "Norman Schreiber's book is a music lover's joy."
 

• Your Home Office (Harper/Perennial).

Your Home Office offers friendly,  authoritative advice on all the resources, hints and strategies that make a home\based business work.

"Schreiber offers homebased businesses an edge up by providing guidelines for organization and efficiency," says Booklist. "...An excellent business guide for a solitary work style."

New From
Topquark Press

Out of Order, a witty comedy of manners, is the delightful tale  of what happens when psychologist Michael Levine finds himself forced to investigate the dire and baffling goings-on in his building while navigating a tricky labyrinth of patients, tenants, cops, a new girlfriend (he hopes) and his randy, tormented mind.

Lies! Power grabs! Lust! Rivalries! Vendettas! Avarice! Secret crushes! Grudges, too, and everybody’s messianic sense of mission are all in a day's work when people share a grand pre-war co-op building in Brooklyn. 

At last - a salute to the gallant fighting men and women of America's co-ops and condos: game on!

Where To Order Out of Order

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CHAPTER ONE

Caution – Wet Floor

New York City napped until Andre Castellano’s scream shook it awake. Castellano, a porter at the Olmsted Court apartment house, was in the building’s basement. He had been dragging fat, green, stuffed garbage bags from the trash compactor room. He already had rummaged through the piled magazines and newspapers for a copy of that day’s newspaper. The best he could find was a pristine, unread copy of the previous day’s New York Times, dated April 23, 1982. 

Bulging bag in each hand, Castellano sang “New York, New York” as he worked.

The compactor seemed to hum in harmony. But then it started to sputter. It was choking on some chunky morsel again.

Wondering when the co–op would buy a new compactor or, at least, fix this one, Castellano dropped the bags.

There are two kinds of problems, he thought. Most happen when things are not what they seem. The rest are because things are what they seem.

He scrambled to the compactor’s base and threw a switch. The machinery’s whining and coughing stopped. The compactor’s pressing plate was stalled by the contents of a white plastic bag. Andre’s hand closed tightly on the bag. Something felt wrong —and wet. His hand jerked open. Blood was on his hand. Blood painted the inside of the compactor.

The plastic bag had been torn open, and Andre saw its contents — a portion of a human torso. Peeking out  from beneath was the head of the decedent, Herman Matterweil, president of the co-op. Herman’s eye seemed to gaze right at the porter.

That’s when Andre screamed. And that’s when he ran to the super.

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Brief  bio: Norman Schreiber got his start as a young playwright; he trained with Samson Raphaelson, Group Theater alumnus Wendell K. Phillips, and director Gene Frankel.  

When director Robert Downey, Sr. first clapped eyes on Norman, he cast him asthe homicidal messenger in Putney Swope,the uproarious, notorious  indie film classic.

5,896,399 gazillion magazine articles, short stories, three books, some plays and a rock musical later, Norman Schreiber writes about music, travel, media, photography, small business and pop culture, and is the editor of Travelersusanotebook.com.

Assorted Credits

Magazine writing credits include American Management Review, Amtrak Express, Camera Arts, Family Circle, Folio, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, Ladies Home Journal,  Photo District News, Popular Photography, Pulse, Smithsonian, Success, Travel & Leisure and Writer's Digest.

Editing credts include Strobe

Magazine Retailer, Events USA,  and Travelersusanotebook.com.

Norman also has contributed to  Mark Green’s Consumer Bible (Workman Publishing); The Complete Guide to Writing Nonfiction (Writer's Digest Books) and Digital Deli by The Lunch Group & Guests (Workman Publishing)

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