During the summer of 2007 when Vince Perritano was beginning his second tour in Ramadi, Iraq, between missions as a vehicle commander in a Marine Corps infantry platoon, he wrote After We're Free. He and his close friend, Michael Nauer, spent the next fourteen months revising the manuscript. Perritano had no training in writing beyond his public high school, which he wasn't paying much attention to at the time. Natural talent combined with hard work on the parts of Perritano, Nauer, and many others prevailed, and After We're Free has begun to prove itself as a literary landmark from the Iraq War.
On September 6th, 2008, the day of Perritano's end of active service with the Marines, After We're Free was published with Lulu and it experienced mild success, globally, with the free download of the ebook (eAWF). He is now at Columbia College Chicago studying creative nonfiction and fiction writing. Vince is working on multiple projects now, both in fiction and nonfiction, along with other concepts he is experimenting with. New material is on the way from his solitary travels through Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Palestine he has been embarking on since he finished his time with the Marines in 2008. Vince is now twenty-four years old.
He recently released After We're Free with Wheatmark to increase the book's availibility and reader's enjoyability. The new Wheatmark edition is available around the world, and the ebook remains free.
