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It's About Time
It's About Time is a story of love, jealousy, and the spiritual power of music.
Woody Harper, a talented but troubled singer-songwriter, thought his life was finally on track after writing his first hit song. But the pressure mounts along with his fame. Woody, now living with his wife Stephanie and their baby daughter, struggles to write and record new music, tour with a dysfunctional band, and keep his cocaine habit under control. When Woody loses his daughter in a reckless moment, his life spirals out of control. Meanwhile, Ray Bell, the singer who once stole his song, sues for co-writing credit, igniting a bitter courtroom battle. As their personal and professional lives collide, both men are forced to confront their pasts—and each other—in an explosive finale.
Woody Harper, a talented but troubled singer-songwriter, thought his life was finally on track after writing his first hit song. But the pressure mounts along with his fame. Woody, now living with his wife Stephanie and their baby daughter, struggles to write and record new music, tour with a dysfunctional band, and keep his cocaine habit under control. When Woody loses his daughter in a reckless moment, his life spirals out of control. Meanwhile, Ray Bell, the singer who once stole his song, sues for co-writing credit, igniting a bitter courtroom battle. As their personal and professional lives collide, both men are forced to confront their pasts—and each other—in an explosive finale.
352 pages, Hardcover
Published June 24, 2025
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October 6, 2026
More twists and turns than really necessary. The faked suicide thing does nothing overall, only to garner sympathy for our antagonist only to eviscerate him come the trial in a way that feels uncomfortable after spending a chapter exploring how his life has downwardly spiraled. Stephanie’s past as a sex worker is only brought up to shame her. Everyone is a cornball. There are moments that are interesting, and have scratched at the surface of the tangled wires under the production and administration of music— how does the exporting and selling of music take the soul of the music away? Written to take place right before San Francisco topples into Silicon Valley hellhole, it starts probing at how art and human experience will be exploited or expanded by the upcoming technology boom. Couple things I did enjoy— The courtroom sequence exploring these tangled contradictions and messy rules applied to
something as amorphous as art is really compelling. I loved the descriptions of music obviously written by a musician, super interesting to get into the head of someone who can experience it like that, and try to translate it to text so the reader can too. The rest of it is kind of meandering gibberish.
something as amorphous as art is really compelling. I loved the descriptions of music obviously written by a musician, super interesting to get into the head of someone who can experience it like that, and try to translate it to text so the reader can too. The rest of it is kind of meandering gibberish.
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