Coerte V.W. Felske

Coerte V.W. Felske was born in New York City and grew up in Manhattan and Quogue, Long Island. He attended Bronxville High School and received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College. He did his graduate work in film directing and screenwriting at Columbia University. The Shallow Man, originally published in 1995, was his first novel. His second novel, Word, came out in 1998 followed by The Millennium Girl in 2000. In 2010 the independent online literary imprint The Dolce Vita Press was founded in conjunction with Amazon.com to publish and distribute Felske's books. The imprint's inaugural publication was Scandalocity published in 2012. Special author's cut anniversary editions of both the acclaimed Word and The Millennium Girl were released in 2014 followed by The Shallow Man: 20th Anniversary Edition in 2015. Felske's southwest psychological drama The Ivory Stretch was released in 2016. Three Sleeps to Double Happiness, Felske's sixth original novel, is slated for a summer, 2018 release accompanied by a book reading and signing tour in in the U.S. and Canada. The Dolce Vita Press was established to enhance contact with the readership as well as offer the author the creative freedom to incorporate the talents of top photographers, graphic artists, and book jacket designers. The DVP label derives from the Italian term "dolce vita," which translates to the "sweet life." Felske was influenced by Federico Fellini's cinematic masterwork, La Dolce Vita, which tells the tale of a decadent group of glamorous partiers, nightclubbers, and exotic women as they navigate their way through Rome's high society, all pursued by a playboy paparazzo. The author has often referred to his literature as "dolce vita fiction," stories about nightclub impresarios, serial womanizers, fashionistas, fortune hunting women, entertainment business hopefuls, and scandal sheet writers entrenched in a similar dolce vita circuitry; in essence, characters living modern versions of that illusory 'sweet life' depicted in Fellini's film.