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New York Goodreaders:

Hie yourself to the incomparable BookCourt in Brooklyn for my event celebrating the publication of What You Want Is in the Limo.

The fun starts and 7 and lasts till???

http://bookcourt.com

Keep up with the latest on What You Want Is in the Limo--and whatever else presents itself--on my Twitter page:

laurelcanyon2@twitter.com

What You Want Is in the Limo officially launches today after relentless toil on its behalf by the staff at Spiegel & Grau and Random House and their many elves throughout the publishing firmament. I’ll take credit for the reporting and writing, but in the end it was a collaboration, as are the best creative endeavors.

Seems hard to fathom that the handsome artifact being loaded onto the front tables at the Fifth Avenue Barnes & Noble a couple blocks from where I write this started three years ago with my idle notion to write something about the rock and roll backstage culture of the early 1970s.

That inchoate “idea” was sharpened in several unsentimental conversations with my literary agent, Daniel Greenberg, who stopped muttering “I can’t sell that” when we finally decided that following three seminal bands, at the peaks of their careers, in the star-crossed year of 1973, might be a better way to get at what I was trying to say.

It was a labor of love, or something close to it, to write about the dancing days of the summer of 1973 and that fleeting moment when the cultures of the 1960s and 1970s briefly commingled before separating for good.

I hope you enjoy What You Want Is in the Limo and look forward to hearing your impressions.

Welcome!

Michael Walker

New York City, 7-23-13

Listen to a rebroadcast of ace political commentator and rock fiend Michael Smerconis's interview with me earlier today on Sirius XM at 6 p.m. and 12 a.m. EST on Sirius Channel 124. http://www.siriusxm.com/potus

Hello, New York City Goodreaders!

I'll be appearing at a launch party/reading/shindig for my new book, WHAT YOU WANT IS IN THE LIMO, at the peerless Book Court, the best damned bookstore in New York, on Thursday, July 25 @7 p.m.

I'll talk about 1973 and the magnificent music and unfettered debuach of that seminal year in pop culture, which witnessed the invention of the modern rock star.

It'll be fun, promise. Hope to see you there!

In the meantime, you can follow my exploits during my New York City promotional odyssey on Twitter at laurelcanyon2@twitter.com

Michael Walker

July 25, 2013 7 p.m.
163 Court St., Brooklyn, NY, US
www.http://bookcourt.com



What You Want Is in the Limo: On the Road with Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, and the Who in 1973, the Year the Sixties Died and the Modern Rock Star Was BornWhat You Want Is in the Limo: On the Road with Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, and the Who in 1973, the Year the Sixties Died and the Modern Rock Star Was Born

Hello, Goodreaders--

Hope you enjoy 'Laurel Canyon,' which has spent seven months on the L.A. Times bestseller list, is currently in its 11th printing and continues to receive worldwide acclaim.

The 'Laurel Canyon' e-book is now available on Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, Apple iBook, Sony Reader and Kobo. Find it here:

http://amzn.to/hN7YhP
http://bit.ly/awMErH
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I invite you to explore my website, http://www.laurelcanyonthebook.com, where you'll find lots more about the canyon past and present, including my original audio interviews with Graham Nash, the Byrds' Chris Hillman and more.

You can also follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurelcanyon2

Please feel free to get in touch if you have questions or want to talk about the canyon, rock and roll, pop culture, the phases of the moon...whatever.

Thanks for reading!

Michael Walker
Laurel Canyon, USA