Well, thank you. Tony Mandolin is the name of my star actor in the series I write, the Tony Mandolin Mysteries. The genre is supernatural mystery or supernatural suspense, but with the amount of humor (I have an incurable funnybone) included in the stories it is probably closer to what Terry Pratchett wrote in his Grimes stories. Yes, I am published. Graphic Audio, a very good full cast audio publisher optioned the first 5 books for production into audiobooks late in 2015, but anyone who deals with publishers and producers knows that is more of a waiting game than anything else.
I have several favorite authors, but the top of the list would be Pratchett, Poe, Dickens, Heinlein, and Green, not necessarily in that order.
I would also ask, if anyone has the time, please wander by httpo:www.tonymandolin.com and let me know what they think of the writing.