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It must have been around 1957, I know I could not have been much more than five years old, when I saw my mom dancing around the kitchen for the first time. I remember that my dad, being of a sound religious mind at the moment, did not care too much for the sight. But my mom still danced. She said she loved rock and roll. The person that was making my mom dance was Elvis Presley—the King of Rock & Roll.
This began my introduction to music. Even though I am tone deaf and can’t carry a tune in a bucket with a lid on it, I still have my mom’s love of music in me. I love all kinds: rock, classic, country western, show-tunes, and so on. If it has a beat or a melody, I usually like it. I suppose that with my early indoctrination, it would be inevitable that someday I would write a book about music, or more precisely, the makers of music.
I have written and published all types of work, from short stories to poems to articles but this book is truly a labor of love. In it I show how that the creative process, besides the writing, playing, and singing of music, includes the choosing of a name. Most of the time bands pick their names as result of pure inspiration, but the names can be chosen out desperation as well. You just never knew—until now.
Be sure to read some of the letters/emails I received from some to the bands in this book. They are listed after ZZ Top!It must have been around 1957, I know I could not have been much more than five years old, when I saw my mom dancing around the kitchen for the first time. I remember that my dad, being of a sound religious mind at the moment, did not care too much for the sight. But my mom still danced. She said she loved rock and roll. The person that was making my mom dance was Elvis Presley—the King of Rock & Roll.
This began my introduction to music. Even though I am tone deaf and can’t carry a tune in a bucket with a lid on it, I still have my mom’s love of music in me. I love all kinds: rock, classic, country western, show-tunes, and so on. If it has a beat or a melody, I usually like it. I suppose that with my early indoctrination, it would be inevitable that someday I would write a book about music, or more precisely, the makers of music.
I have written and published all types of work, from short stories to poems to articles but this book is truly a labor of love. In it I show how that the creative process, besides the writing, playing, and singing of music, includes the choosing of a name. Most of the time bands pick their names as result of pure inspiration, but the names can be chosen out desperation as well. You just never knew—until now.
Be sure to read some of the letters/emails I received from some to the bands in this book. They are listed after ZZ Top! Read more
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What would YOU do if your favourite rock star asked to marry you? Charming, honest, funny and sometimes bitter-sweet, this novel tells the story of one young woman’s entanglement with a rock star.
Slapper. Slut. Adulteress. These are hardly words that Sophie Penhalligan would normally use to describe herself. And yet this is exactly how she is behaving, all things considered, even if she isn’t quite married to Tim yet. Aged nineteen, she travelled halfway across the country to honour an invitation by her favourite rock band, Tusk, to join them for the last gig of their tour. And now her past is coming to tempt her... How could Tim ever stand a chance against Dan, the charming, handsome lead-singer? How could she?
Sophie, now twenty-eight and a budding newspaper journalist, is happily embroiled in a relationship with Tim, her boyfriend of two years. Until recently, she was confident that Tim would eventually propose—probably as soon as he could get his act together. But just as Tim’s persistent inaction is beginning to cast a cloud over their relationship, Dan’s sudden reappearance turns Sophie’s world upside down. Thus unfolds a roller-coaster of events including an ill-fated trip to Paris with Tim, a night of unfulfilled romance with Dan, Sophie and Tim’s engagement party gate-crashed by Dan, and Sophie’s professional secondment to accompany Dan’s band on their revival tour—at Dan’s special request and very much against her will.
And then, one fine day in Paris, Sophie suddenly finds herself engaged to Dan while her erstwhile fiancé Tim is... well, doing whatever it is Tim does back in London. What is she to do now? Who wouldn’t give anything to meet their favourite star, let alone marry him?
Find out how Sophie gets into this impossible situation, and how she turns it around, in Sophie’s Turn, a modern romantic fairy tale. Sophie's Turn is the first part in the Rock Star Romance Trilogy Series. Part Two is expected for release in summer 2012.
What would YOU do if your favourite rock star asked to marry you? Charming, honest, funny and sometimes bitter-sweet, this novel tells the story of one young woman’s entanglement with a rock star.
Slapper. Slut. Adulteress. These are hardly words that Sophie Penhalligan would normally use to describe herself. And yet this is exactly how she is behaving, all things considered, even if she isn’t quite married to Tim yet. Aged nineteen, she travelled halfway across the country to honour an invitation by her favourite rock band, Tusk, to join them for the last gig of their tour. And now her past is coming to tempt her... How could Tim ever stand a chance against Dan, the charming, handsome lead-singer? How could she?
Sophie, now twenty-eight and a budding newspaper journalist, is happily embroiled in a relationship with Tim, her boyfriend of two years. Until recently, she was confident that Tim would eventually propose—probably as soon as he could get his act together. But just as Tim’s persistent inaction is beginning to cast a cloud over their relationship, Dan’s sudden reappearance turns Sophie’s world upside down. Thus unfolds a roller-coaster of events including an ill-fated trip to Paris with Tim, a night of unfulfilled romance with Dan, Sophie and Tim’s engagement party gate-crashed by Dan, and Sophie’s professional secondment to accompany Dan’s band on their revival tour—at Dan’s special request and very much against her will.
And then, one fine day in Paris, Sophie suddenly finds herself engaged to Dan while her erstwhile fiancé Tim is... well, doing whatever it is Tim does back in London. What is she to do now? Who wouldn’t give anything to meet their favourite star, let alone marry him?
Find out how Sophie gets into this impossible situation, and how she turns it around, in Sophie’s Turn, a modern romantic fairy tale. Sophie's Turn is the first part in the Rock Star Romance Trilogy Series. Part Two is expected for release in summer 2012.
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The Winners are a down and out band who find their road to stardom by riding rock-n-roll’s highway to hell. It all begins when their bass player, Jennifer (Jessica Paré), disappears with a mysterious vampire and reemerges with a sexual charisma that drives the audiences wild. Now, The Winners are topping the charts and blazing a bloody trail across North America with legendary vampire hunter Eddie Van Helsing (Malcolm McDowell) hunting them along the way. Who knew fame and immortality could “suck” like this? Read more
