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Rick Zalon

Rick Zalon

About

Rick Zalon first developed an interest in telling this particular story while teaching (as a part-time adjunct) in a progressive “green” MBA program at the now-defunct New College of California in Sonoma County, where he encountered many of the controversies, contradictions, passions and unique personality types/disorders portrayed in “Coyote Point Casino.” Trained as a journalist in the US Air Force during the Vietnam era (he served as a public affairs representative and TV network liaison during the last two Apollo missions), Zalon worked as a financial executive in Silicon Valley, wrote the original business plan for Office Depot, consulted for a number of joint-venture companies in China, and survived stage IV non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. He currently maintains a small tax and consulting practice, coaches CPA exam candidates and teaches part time at Dominican University of California’s more conventional School of Business and Leadership.

New Alpha Rising: Ascension Part I

New Alpha Rising: Ascension Part I

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<p>Countless years ago, measured in thousands, the Gods came first. Monstrous creations were born of their frivolity. Like the Gods, some of the creations were peaceful, others not. Their duty to preserve the earth completed once more, however, the day came that the Gods had to leave earth. Unleashed and with loose regulation, the abominable creations left behind multiplied. In their midst, another conception came to be, and his kind would exist absolutely outside of the God’s purview.<br />Unmated, alone, and untrusting of others, Chatran was charged to go to a place and protect the father of a great child, yet unborn. This duty, however, was unknown to the most cognizant part of Chatran. Only the Beast, who resided within him, knew. As a result, the Beast led Chatran to Walhalla, North Dakota. Although his initial charge was to protect the father he found there, Chatran also gained a mate and Pack. With them, Chatran also found a new way forward, and started on a course that would lead to – New Alpha Rising: Ascension.</p>

Story Behind The Book

Based loosely on the real-life circumstances surrounding the restoration of the Miwok tribal group in Northern California-and subsequent efforts to launch a gaming establishment-Coyote Point Casino is the story of Jim McBride, a feckless adjunct professor who, faced with the elimination of his job, conveniently rediscovers his tribal ancestry and secures an endowed chair in his university's Native American Studies program. With the encouragement of the program's director Billy Littlefeather, a Brooklyn-born imposter and former TV western bit player, McBride becomes entangled in efforts to restore federal recognition for his tribe so that it can act as a front for shady casino developers. In the process, Jim gets involved with local and academic politics, a faded child star who latches onto trendy causes to resurrect her career, seriously conflicted environmental activists on both sides of the issue, and a significant archeological find that threatens to derail the entire enterprise. NOTE: All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. The recent release of this book and the grand opening of the GRATON RESORT & CASINO in Rohnert Park, California was ENTIRELY COINCIDENTAL (but quite serendipitous. . .)

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Reviews

If reality is 10, then Rick Zalon's Coyote Point Casino merely nudges the dial up to 11 to satirize contemporary academics and the moral squalor of interest-group politics. In need of a job, adjunct teacher Jim McBride stumbles into a Native American Studies department that's a wonderland of opportunity. Before you can say &quot;Ward Churchill,&quot; Jim is the head man of a once-defunct tribe and an item for Hollywood gossip columnists. It's all too absurd, yet, Zalon's precise narrative at times reads like a how-to manual for getting tribal recognition from Congress. McBride's character has echoes of Candide, and also Lucky Jim. It's wry satire--never over the top--and, I have to say it: Rick Zalon is not chopped liver!