Hello Readers :)
I wanted to apologize for my recent hiatus from posts. I have been very busy in the last several months working with a group of great individuals to launch a brand new pool magazine. It's called Sneaky Pete Mafia Magazine. The Sneaky Pete Mafia community started out as a group on Facebook and was founded by Garret Troop.
I was first approached by Garret the weekend of my Grandma Betty's passing. It was not a good time for me as I was dealing with some very heavy emotions and just didn't feel like the timing was right. I came highly recommended to him from someone I didn't know very well, TV Mike with the Onsite Pool Network. I met Mike in Houston for the WPBA Regional Tour Championships, OSPN was streaming the event and we had a couple good conversations about life in general and the pool world.
My first thought when Garret approached me to be the Editor of this new magazine was "I just don't know." I wasn't sure if it was the right time or if it was something that I could do, but I tentatively told him that I would work with the group and help them launch. He gave me total control over content and in the last few months I have come to embrace the idea. The primary goal of the Sneaky Pete Mafia (SPM) is to get players what they need to take their game to the next level. Whether it be product reviews, instructional articles, inspiring interviews with both old and young players, or road stories to remind us of all the great times to be had, SPM Magazine is blazing a trail in a media saturated pool world.
We have a great team together with a mutual respect and understanding for what we want to do. I am lining up interviews with some amazing pool players. Our first issue featured two of my interviews, one short Q&A piece with Billiards Education Foundation (BEF) Junior National participant, Eric Roberts and then one longer interview I had with Johnny Archer "The Scorpion". I am very excited to see where things go and for the second issue I have lined up interviews with Darren "Dynamite" Appleton and rising pool sensation Briana Miller. If you ever have ideas about interviews you would like to see, please don't hesitate to shoot me a message at editor@sneakypetemafia.com.
Sneaky Pete Mafia Magazine is a proud support of the BEF and will be contributing 5% of all ad space sales to their foundation. The youth of the sport, and our world in general, are the foundation of the future. By supporting them, we support ourselves. I truly hope that you enjoy our magazine. You can check it and future issues out at www.sneakypetemafia.com. Thanks for being patient with me. I will post the interviews to my blog when the following months publications are released.
Cheers! SOS
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