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ALL PENS BLAZING – A ROCK & HEAVY METAL WRITER’S HANDBOOK VOLUME II

Publication Date: TBC 

As the title suggests, this is a follow up to All Pens Blazing. It’s going to be another mammoth paperback tome. There’ll be just as many big names and just as many great stories. I’ve got a list of interviewees and I’m pretty sure most of them will want to take part. Any recommendations please email me…

 

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ROCK ‘N’ ROLL MERCENARIES – INTERVIEWS WITH ROCK STARS VOL II

Publication Date: TBC 

I won’t go in to too much detail because you can probably tell what this book is going to be about. I’m really getting in to this print on demand business. You can do basically anything you want as long as you think it will sell albeit in relatively small numbers. It’s be of similar size and quality as the first volume, with just as many interviews and there’ll be a bonus chapter of interviews with rock scribes.

 

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IT’S MY LIFE

(STORIES OF EXCESS BY A FADED 80s ROCK STAR TURNED TRIBUTE SINGER) 

Publication Date: TBC

***A CANDID BOOK ABOUT AN EIGHTIES HAIR METAL BAND***

This fictional rock memoir tells the story of Johnny Cannon, an Alice Cooper tribute singer who was once in a band called The Druids, one of the most exciting and distinctive bands of the hair metal era. They released two albums (The Flight Of The Druids and Kingdome Come) and toured the UK, Europe, America and Japan. Vividly recalled and explicitly written, this “mock rock memoir” is filled with hilarious anecdotes, candid diary entries and is also a handy historical document of a bygone era. They may all be cliches but that doesn't mean they never happened! Hair metal was big business in the eighties until grunge exploded and consequently it became universally derided and a “thing of the past.” Many bands lost their record deals, folded or suffered constant line-up changes and were reduced to playing in tiny clubs. Johnny Cannon was there and he can tell you everything. Johnny Cannon tells the history of The Druids and the hair metal genre from the early eighties to 1991 when everything changed.