The Cadillac News’s Marc Vieau spoke with author and hockey scribe Keith Gave ahead of an appearance at Horizon Books in Cadillac this Saturday at 1 PM, at which Gave will sign copies of his book Vlad the Impaler.
As you probably know by now, reforms to Michigan’s no-fault auto insurance laws have left the health care system for members of catstrophic car crashes in an incredibly difficult place, so Gave is attempting to raise money for the Konstatinov Special Needs Trust:
Gave, who has a friendship with Konstantinov, is donating a large portion of the proceeds from ‘Vlad The Impaler’ to the trust fund and wants to make people aware of it. So, back to how the second book came about.
‘The Russian Five’ became a best-seller in three languages and spawned a documentary by the same name that Gave was involved in.
The Detroit Free Press and former sports editor Gene Meyers reached out to Gave to help on their book, ‘Stanleytown 25 Years Later.’
“I agreed and told Gene I didn’t want to just cut and paste from the first book,” Gave said. “I wanted to give people some original stuff. I was going through old notes and things from the first book and was thinking to myself that this is really good stuff. I’ve got great excerpts from a lot of people and that’s when I decided I could put together another book. There were just so many more stories that needed to be told.”
