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Few things in global culture draw people together so obviously as music (and its close cousin, dance). We’ve gone banana-split crazy during the past six or seven decades for everyone from The Fab 4, MJ, Queen Bey, Bruce, Tay-Tay, The King, Adele, and that guy who coined the very term “Let’s go crazy,” Prince Rogers Nelson…totally freakin’ crazy

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Flat Branch Press is posting Deep-Fried America dispatches from me on a weekly basis at their website. You might-maybe should check it out. I’ll leave a link at the bottom. Here’s the first dispatch posted a few Wednesdays ago. The Magic Inside Music How a summer night in 1968 sparked a lifelong search for the […]

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Dare I write this? Maybe this is mostly an exploration of an idea. I know unequivocally what I personally find to be the most perfect song I’ve ever heard. You may say I’m full of shit. I can’t argue with that. No doubt there are hundreds if not thousands of perfectly perfect songs. It’s just […]

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I say this all the time, I hope some folks understand: if you are a music person, this book is for you. Also, if you know music people, especially those who love rock and electric blues, this is a perfect gift for them.

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I originally posted a version of this in 2013. Seems useful still, now these days of lost men and boys (not all of us, but maybe too many). Apologies for length. What’s a novelist to do? Here’s what I think about at some point of every day: What is going on in this world that […]

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What I do want to suggest, though, is that science fiction as a category needs to be a protected realm. So does fantasy.

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The record companies back then understood they could only partially make the call about what would work and what wouldn't. Artists ruled. So did their listeners.

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This will likely be the only hardcover version ever published. It contains an extended preface explaining the journey the decades long journey the book took to get to this point.

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This will likely be the only hardcover version ever published. It contains an extended preface explaining the journey the decades long journey the book took to get to this point.

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My next novel, Sound Effect Infinity, will release early this spring. I’ve been busy prepping it for print publishing by Flat Branch Press over the past few weeks. A special edition hardcover will have a soft launch in February. If you’re interested in ordering a copy, drop me a line, sign up to the right […]

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