I wrote a book that I would enjoy reading, and while that might not seem like anything to you right off the bat, take a look at the books and authors on my reading list: Chelsea Cain, James Rollins, F. Paul Wilson, Preston & Child, Lee Child, Steig Larsson. Its a veritable who's who of the writing world. And no before you ask that question, I didn't copy any of them, but I did write a book that I felt belonged in their category. Maybe the title throws you, because I'm sure when you see it and you think, The Rock Star it's probably about some starry eyed groupie that falls madly in love with a Rock Star only to have her heart crushed, and you'd be very wrong about that. You see I grew up when we didn't have twenty four hour reality shows, twenty four hour news, and so many gossip magazines that nothing could ever be hidden. When I grew up there were rumors about rock stars that involved deals with the devil, back masking, hidden deaths, orgies, drugs, and all sorts of wild and crazy things that put those Rock Stars up on a pedestal of wonder and amazement to all the teens that followed them. So when I conjure the word Rock Star I'm thinking about a creature of wonder that comes out of his mysterious lair to whip the masses into his shamanistic ritual of excess and sonic bombardment. Not some teetering old man who you can't understand, or some thin armed little half-man bouncing about in some choreographed idiocy, or some talentless fool barking bad lyrics over an incessant beat. No none of that, but an actual Rock Star that's so good you think of him as either a wizard or a god. But the Rock Star is only one component of the story. There's also a burning body, a celebrity hunting vigilante, Russian killers, a sexy assassin, Gypsy Twins, secret groups, hidden homes, an agoraphobic hacker, a local sheriff, and a few FBI agents, one of who is severely damaged. I had one reader tell me that it was a constellation of characters, and it is, because some of them won't make it to the third book. But a whole bunch of them will. I approached this book and the two that follow it like HBO approaches a series, you have multiple characters who can pull the story in multiple directions, but at different points their stories will converge and overlap and explode and hopefully you'll be cheering for it when they do. Why is this a series of three books? For the same reason Peter Jackson had to make the Hobbit into three movies, he was having too much fun to make just one movie. I had too much action to stuff into one book and I was having fun writing it. I could have gone all Game of Thrones and left the book like I first wrote it at over a thousand pages, but that was just too long, and there were some natural breaks in the three novels. I'll let you know the first is out, the second is written, but needs to be edited, and the third is planned out. But these characters won't stop there I've planned multiple novels after that, so if you read the book and you enjoy some of the characters, you can look forward to them being around for a while. Which characters live, and which die, and who goes to jail, and who gets mutilated along the way, I'll never tell, because I know when I read a book I want to keep guessing right till the end.