North London, 1976. The longest, hottest summer on record. There are strikes, the water is running out and the kids hate their parents. Which bunch of idiots would think it is a good idea to start a band? Stench, Aroma, Smell, Haze and Fart might not have the sweetest nicknames in town, but these five have just finished their O-Levels and are on a mission to take their fledgling little band and get themselves a half decent gig. Songs are good, playing is getting better, Smell's voice is … [Read more...]
Bargain Book: Fall Of The Flamingo Circus by Kate Rigby
This book is bargain priced from 12/11/2014 until 01/04/2015 “Fall Of The Flamingo Circus is the story of a strong and independent girl’s childhood and adolescence, her desperate battle to make something of the fearful hand dealt to her. Through her eyes we see the realities of poverty in England – hunger and junk food, boredom and noise at home, snobbery and notoriety at school – and the fear of a brutal father…over the years we watch Lauren’s voice grow in power and imagination, as her life … [Read more...]
Maximilian and Carlotta Are Dead by Scott R. Larson
In the summer of 1971, Dallas Green and Lonnie McKay made a spur-of-the-moment decision to leave their hot, dusty farming town and head south to Mexico in Lonnie's 1965 Chevy. They told each other they were going down there to find a friend who had disappeared a few years before, but the truth was that what they were really looking for was an escape from work, the draft, the war, and the prospect of having to finally grow up. Scott R. Larson has drawn on his own memories of growing up in the San … [Read more...]
Red, White & Blues by L.V. Sage @LVSage1
Diverse characters & events intertwine to make up the fabric that is Red, White & Blues. America & the Vietnam War, free love & drug use, and the brotherhood of an outlaw motorcycle club all lead to everlasting bonds. Mike & Lucas Blackhorse, Ojibwa brothers from Wisconsin, take radically different paths only to end up together. Morgan Stewart & John Clark step from the fields of Vietnam into the Souls of Liberty Motorcycle Club where their need for a brotherhood … [Read more...]
Audio Book: Feels Like the First Time by Shawn Inmon @shawninmon
Feels Like the First Time is actually two stories, book-ended together. In the first, two young people in the 1970's meet, become friends and fall in love, in a story as old as time. Eventually, the two are separated by forces beyond their control and don't see each other again for many years. The book-end tale shows what happens when those two young lovers meet again, completely by chance, or fate, thirty years later. Does the enduring power of first love last forever, and can it … [Read more...]
Interview with Author – Kate Rigby
Author Bio: I’ve been been writing for over thirty years. I realized my unhip credentials were mounting so I decided to write about it. Little Guide to Unhip was published by Night Publishing in 2010. It's due for an update when time permits. However, I’m not completely unhip. My punk novel, Fall Of The Flamingo Circus was published by Allison & Busby (1990) and by Villard (American hardback 1990). Skrev Press published my novels Seaview Terrace (2003) Sucka! (2004) and Break Point … [Read more...]
Book Excerpt: The Marijuana Gods by Doug Shear
About your Book: It's the summer of 1971. The Vietnam War rages on. Nixon declares the War on Drugs. Jim Morrison dies in a bathtub. And I set off hitchhiking with Nixon, my closeted gay, openly black friend, in search of a mythical Utopian commune in Maryland. We have no money, no map and no idea of where to go. All we possess is a deep faith in the benevolence of the Marijuana Gods. Join us on a psychedelic journey of free love and cheap sex, wild dogs and escaped criminals. Stay … [Read more...]
Book Excerpt: Feels Like the First Time by Shawn Inmon @shawninmon
About your Book: 1975: Shawn meets Dawn, his one true love, when she moves into the vacant house next door. Many people spend their life searching in vain for happiness, but he was lucky; finding it at the tender age of fifteen. 1979: Shawn and Dawn are forbidden to see each other. Feeling he is harming her by being in her life, Shawn walks away from the love of his life, apparently forever. 2006: after decades of sadness and mourning the girl that got away, Shawn has a chance meeting with … [Read more...]
