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After landing on Earth in Stockton, California, Scott Cherney wore a lot of hats in his life and times, among them, a cowboy hat as a weekend gunslinger at the Pollardville Ghost Town, a western amusement park that housed sets from the William Wyler film The Big Country. He then moved over to the Palace Showboat Dinner Theater becoming a triple threat actor/writer/director of several melodrama/vaudeville stage productions. Cherney was also an award-winning stage actor with has appeared in such films as Omega Cop and Under Arrest. In 1987, Scott was the winner of the one and only Stockton Stand-Up Comedy Competition. Cherney is the author of the road rage novel Red Asphalt, a movie memoir called In the Dark: A Life and Times in a Movie Theater, the true travel tome known as Please Hold Thumbs: A Not So Round Trip to South Africa, a collection of comedy sketches entitled Now THAT'S Funny and the western comedy romance Song of the Canyon Kid. His plays include Song of the Lone Prairie, La Rue's Return (w/Edward Thorpe), Legend of the Rogue, Dead Tuesday (aka The Perils of Francois( and Murder: The Final Frontier (aka Star Truck: The Wrath of Comic-Con).

WELCOME HOME, CANYON KID. . . NOW REACH FOR THE SKY! When a straight shooting, guitar strumming singing cowboy known as The Canyon Kid returns to Dirt Clod, Missouri, he finds his hometown in the grips of a tyrannical “hanging judge” named Basil Kadaver and his evil co-horts, including the slinky gypsy seductress Nastassia Kinky and her half-witted brother, Two Gun Boris. To make matters worse, he also discovers that his childhood sweetheart and the lov eof his life is engaged to a known desperado who is the Judge has appointed town sheriff and is about to frame The Canyon Kid for murder. How's The Kid going to save the day, let alone croon a few tunes, with a noose around his neck?

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Category: Literature & Fiction; Humor & Entertainment

TRAFFIC CAN BE MURDER. . . See that car in your rear-view mirror? The driver wants to kill you. Don’t take it personally. You just happen to be in the way. In RED ASPHALT, the operator of the vehicle in question is a troubled medical courier in a triple threat cage match with his two biggest adversaries-everyday life and himself. His marriage to the woman he believed to be his soul mate is rapidly evaporating before his eyes. The book he’s been working on for over a decade is slipping through his fingers as he struggles to complete it. As these pressures grow, he compensates by conjuring up outrageous road rage scenarios in the multiplex of his mind. As his life, job and dreams simultaneously implode, his wild fantasies begin to literally bleed over into reality. Now with a gun in one hand and a steering wheel in the other, this distant runner-up in the human race feels empowered for the very first time. At least our boy’s finally found a purpose in life.

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Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

10th Anniversary Special EditionNow with MORE movies. . . MORE memories. . . . MORE words! Most people have a memory bank. This guy has a movie theater inside his head. IN THE DARK: A LIFE AND TIMES IN A MOVIE THEATER is Scott Cherney's anecdotal history of one of life's great pastimes: Going to the movies. This SPECIAL EDITION contains new and updated material chronicling the misadventures of a self-proclaimed film geek who grew up watching movies at the same time the movies were growing up themselves. IN THE DARK recalls such cinematic events as:The last days of the Saturday afternoon kiddie matineeExtra-curricular sex education classes on and off the screen at the drive-inSpaghetti westerns, James Bond films and Hammer horror flicksThe rise and fall of the skin flick (pun intended). and much, much more. ˃˃˃ "Cherney weaves a fascinating tale of his obsession with the silver screen. "-Joseph Fotinos AKA Legendary Horror Film TV Host Professsor Anton Griffin "A fun journey! " Actor/Director D. W. LandinghamThe SPECIAL EDITION of IN THE DARK is a funny, sometimes poignant trip down Memory Lane, now with more potholes than ever. Scroll up and grab a copy today before another ten years passes

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Category: Biographies & Memoirs; Teen & Young Adult

HAVE A NICE TRIP? SEE YOU NEXT FALL! Attending their daughter's wedding in South Africa promised to be the vacation of a lifetime. But first, they had to face the treacherous gauntlet known as modern day travel. Join this hapless, sometimes helpless couple as they brave their way through a never-ending obstacle course filled with such hazards as flight delays, the purgatory of layovers and an incompetent, uncaring air carrier that treats its passengers worse than their luggage. Waiting for them on the other side of the world are an honest-to-goodness safari with amorous lions and elephants with anger issues, a life-affirming visit to a South African school and an anxious bride and groom, standing patiently at the airport with a sign that reads: "WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG? " The answer lies within the pages of PLEASE HOLD THUMBS: A NOT-SO-ROUND TRIP TO SOUTH AFRICA, a true tale of turbulence and triumph

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Category: Travel

Evil always returns. . . and this time, it has a bad French accent! The deliciously wicked criminal Jacques La Rue arrives in New Orleans to exact his vengeance on those who sent him to prison. . . especially frail Southern belle Polly Montclair, proprietress of the French Quarter bistro Chez What. Standing in his path are the courageous, yet dim U. S. Cavalry officer Lt. Alan Wexstad and the whacked out witch known as the Swamp Crone. LA RUE'S RETURN is a hilarious riff on the classic melodrama filled with outrageous characters, breakneck slapstick action and a swashbuckling sword fight in the swamp thrown in for good measure. The cast consists of 4 men, 3 women. Performance rights are available. Let the good times roll!

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Category: Arts & Photography; Humor & Entertainment