Downing book deal announced
After posting yesterday about hard rock books, I saw an announcement about yet another new release. According to Blabbermouth, former Judas Priest guitarist K.K. Downing will release a memoir in September of this year. His co-author on the project is noted rock writer Mark Eglinton. Downing was one of my favorite interviews for my book…
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Just can’t stop the hard rock book train
There once was a time when book and magazine editors proudly said, “Metalheads don’t read.” But we now know that to embarrassingly incorrect as books by hard rock musicians continue to appear, and sell pretty well. Observers of the genre also continue to come up with new topics and perspectives for memoirs, essays, and critical…
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How do you get rid of books?
Most book lovers confront the possibility of being crushed by their libraries at some point or another. Depending on your space and your finances, it might just be a pile of four or five texts in the corner or it might be a wing of the house that is going to collapse under the weight…
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Wolff teases easter egg in megaselling book
As if Michael Wolff hadn’t already made enough money off Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, he’s just guaranteed some new sales. Or, at a minimum, some people flipping through their existing copies again. In an appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher, Wolff claims that President Donald Trump is having an affair…
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Vance will not run for Senate
On Friday, multiple outlets reported that author J.D. Vance had announced that he would not run for Senate in Ohio. As just one example, here is the way that CNN covered the writer’s statement. Propelled by the success of his book Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and a Culture in Crisis, Vance became…
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