Ride A White Zebra

Ron Montana has written six published SF, mystery and mainstream novels, his latest being FACE IN THE SNOW from Bantam in 1992. He sold the movie rights and adapted this book to a film script in 1998. His short stories have appeared in many of the major science fiction and mystery magazines and hardcover anthologies. His first stage play, Community Property, enjoyed a 20-week run in the San Francisco Bay Area and he was the humor columnist for San Jose Magazine and the City Editor of the San Jose Downtown Post Newspaper for three years. He has written ten screenplays, several of which have been optioned by major producers over the last decade. In 1999, he and film collaborator Barry Schneider sold The Sailmaker, an epic multimillion dollar film, for a high six-figure amount. The project should be in production in 2000.He has acted in many films and has directed several stage plays, as well as scripting radio plays. Ron currently resides in San Jose, California, and has one other great love besides writing: riding his Peruvian Paso horses.4. Book DescriptionRIDE A WHITE ZEBRA is a novel about the realization of dreams. If our characters can succeed in selling a decrepit gray mule to the circus as a white zebra, metaphorically speaking, they can then count coup on a society that considers them to be non-contributory. The characters come together in the Mission Street District of San Francisco when Sally and Jack use Sidneys script, THE ATTACK OF THE GIANT FLEAS (possibly the worst script in the history of American cinema if THE BLOB is not considered), to con Blue Lou into a blackjack hustle to raise $25,000 to fund a fake production company. Lou has been an avid film buff since early childhood (his mother was a drive-in movie projectionist who hung his car seat next to the projector six nights a week), and he is a sucker when it comes to anything dealing with the silver screen. Getting himself involved in what to the casual observer would certainly be recognizable as a s