Projects #2 Revise The 211 Club Novel version

One of the longest running projects in my portfolio is The 211 Club, a novel I wrote years ago under very difficult circumstances. It was represented by an agent at one time, then she retired and past me to another agent, who I foolishly fired.
Then I made a left turn off the book-length fiction path and down the road toward film—I had been accepted into RIT School of Photography, Film, Video and Animation. And I decided that screenplay was the place I wanted to be. After that came the Film Division at Columbia University, so I stopped writing books.
The screenplay version did okay, it was optioned for a while by a well-known production company, got me a manager in Hollywood, and taught me a few lessons along the way about how things worked out there. It never got made, though.
And, in possibly one of the most satisfying moments of my writing career, Eddie Bunker read the novel version. He spent all night one night reading it and called me the next morning. He said "it's great, man, you are a real writer."