Free Books For Moggers!
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So here's the deal. A few years back I wrote a novel entitled Long Way Back. It's the story of a guy who has a profound religious experience as a child and a profound tragedy as an adult, and how punk rock helps bring him back to life again. The ending of this book is the best thing I've ever written, and I'm really proud of the whole thing. It's a quick, easy read, and, I think, fun and uplifting. It's really a love letter to music--the music that saw me through not only the hormonal horror of adolescence, but also the existential horror of watching my late wife sicken and die from breast cancer. (This is the october tragedy I've coyly alluded to in my halloween music posts.) Like most writers, I'm convinced more people would like my work if they only knew about it. And this book in particular would really appeal to a great many members of the MOG community. It's not just about how music makes you feel better--it's about how music can change and even save your life. So anyway, this book will finally be coming out in paperback in the US in January, and my ulterior motive here is that I'm obviously hoping people will like and recommend it and that it will finally find the audience I think it deserves. Also, though, I'd really love for some people who would get the book on a deep level to read and enjoy it, and this is clearly a place full of people who love music as deeply and irrationally as I and my characters do. So send me a MOGmail with your name and address, and I'll mail you a free copy of my novel Long Way Back. (I've got editions from both US and UK publishers lying around, so I'll send you whatever I reach for first.) I'll even sign it for you. Bargain!(offer limited to the first 25 or so people who respond, or however many copies of this book I have in my house.)I'm including the Buzzcocks' "What Do I Get?" here because it figures prominently in the book and because I originally wanted to title the book "What Do I Get", but my publisher told me people wouldn't get it. (also, you know, what do you get? A free book!) Other bands that figure prominently are the Ramones and the Who.
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