Virtual Velocity – An L.A. Story

Virtual Velocity
150 Pages
ISBN 978-1684333523

Virtual Velocity is the story of the curious creation of pop phenomena, Jake Jenkins, America's most renowned and successful literary novelist. Spanning six decades, through three interconnected stories, Virtual Velocity follows Jake from a sixteen-year-old learning about literature and women, to frenetic rock journalist, to struggling literary novelist, to world-famous author.

Journeying through LA's rock and literary worlds, it is also an homage to the city, tracking its internal and external changing landscape and its cultural shape shifting. Virtual Velocity explores the complicated and often mystifying intersection between fame and art.

Anthony Mora

About Anthony Mora (Los Angeles, California Author)

Anthony Mora

Anthony Mora, whose works have been compared to Salinger, Fante and Nabokov, began his career as a rock journalist and magazine editor – and boy does he have stories to tell. Some of those stories inspired his latest novel, “Virtual Velocity, An L.A. Story”.

His first novel, “Bang! A Love Story” was published in 1990. Soon after the book’s release, Anthony adapted “Bang!” as a play. The original production starred Linda Cardellini and played in both L.A. and New York. “Bang!” was followed by the play “Modern Love.” Although he never thought of himself as a playwright, Anthony found himself entranced by the theatre. He served as the playwright-in-residence at The Sidewalk Studio Theatre in Burbank, California. Now, seven plays and twenty years later, his second novel has been published.

In addition to “Bang” and “Virtual Velocity” Anthony, who has been featured in: USA Today, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The BBC, CNN, and other media, is the president and CEO of Anthony Mora Communications, Inc. and the author of the non-fiction books “Spin To Win” and “The Alchemy of Success.”

Originally from El Paso, Texas, Anthony has lived in Los Angeles since the age of thirteen, and uses the city of angels as the setting of his latest novel. He became a body surfing fanatic at fifteen and still does so whenever he’s able to sneak away.

“Ricochet,” a play adapted from a chapter of “Virtual Velocity: An L.A. Story.” will premiere in Los Angeles in 2020.

You can find Anthony at https://www.anthony-mora.com/ and follow him at https://www.instagram.com/anthony.mora.writer/ and https://www.facebook.com/anthonymorawriter/.