Jackie Kennedy Onassis once said, “If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life.”

Even though it’s my sixth book that was published last week, I still feel I’ve done something wonderful. Why? Because my first five books were fiction, and “The Raffel Ticket: Betting on America” is the first book of nonfiction I have produced.

For the past two years, I’ve had two identities. One is as a novelist who makes things up. That’s my life as a Superman where I have the power to create fictional realms where truth, justice and the American Way (usually) triumph. The other is my life as a journalist. Like Clark Kent, I write about what’s going on in the real world. He does it as a news reporter; I type it on my laptop where it appears as an essay in the weekly column

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