New Piece on Learning Novel Writing v. Learning Bass Guitar up at The Weeklings!!!

Best thing about the Internet? You can take a swipe at a Pulitzer Prize winner and who's gonna tell you no?

That's pretty much how it goes down with my recent piece at The Weeklings where I tell my tale of how I learned bass guitar and compare it to the process of learning to write novels. Enjoy!

Yours in laying down the law,

Art

Watch the Book Trailer for Badge.



Buy Badge.

What AC/DC's Fly on the Wall Tour 1985 Taught me about Writing

One final essay from me for 2013. It's about getting crushed up front at an AC/DC show in 1985.

 Happy holidays.

Yours in laying down the law,

Art

Read the blurb of Badge.

Or read an excerpt of Badge.

My Latest at the Weeklings

Never afraid to grapple with the hard questions of our day, this week at The Weeklings I take on your reluctance to give in to the corporate rock of your youth. Come on people, it's only rock and roll (and you love it). 

Yours in laying down the law,

Art

Check out the Trailer for Stuck Outside of Phoenix the Movie, which premiered in May 2013.

Or try Stuck Outside of Phoenix in print form for just $10.

Or try Stuck for your Kindle for just $2.99.

My New Essay on Public Readings up at the Weeklings!!!

Wherein I manage to slag everything I'll be adopting in six months to promote Badge.

Speaking of Badge, I finished the final draft of it this past week (seven years in the making), and it's currently in the hands of its proofreader. I expect a proofread copy back in a week. Then I have to format it, Kel and I have to finish the cover, and it's off to the printer. I should have a copy in my greedy little hands by October, which means I'll be taunting you with it via the Internet during the last quarter of the year. Yes, torture is why I do this.

Yours in laying down the law,

Art

Check out the Trailer for Stuck Outside of Phoenix the Movie, which premiered in Tempe in May 2013.

Or try Stuck Outside of Phoenix in print form for just $5.

Or try Stuck for your Kindle for just $2.99.

New Stuck the Movie Review/New Piece

First of all, I hope you caught this wonderfully complimentary review of Stuck the Movie. These are the surprises that make it all worth it. Thank you, Michell Hillman.

Second, a new piece of mine is up at The Weeklings, which explores Facebook as increasing the divide between our personas and our real selves. Is your Facebook page you? Are you your Facebook page? What's the difference?

Yours in laying down the law,

Art

Check out the Trailer for Stuck Outside of Phoenix the Movie, which premiered in Tempe in May 2013.

Or try Stuck Outside of Phoenix in print form for just $5.

Or try Stuck for your Kindle for just $2.99.

Stuck the Movie Premiere Location and Time, Plus New Essay

Two things:

First, the premiere time and location of Stuck Outside of Phoenix the Movie has been announced. It is Thursday, May 2nd, at The Valley Art Theater on Mill Avenue in Tempe at 6 PM. There's a possiblility, no doubt tied to ticket sales, that there will be another showing later that same night. You know I'll keep you posted.

Second, my first piece ever at The Weeklings has me attacking--of all things--John Lennon's songwriting. Hey, go big or go home, I always say.

Actually, I never say that.

I have to go buy a suit.

Yours in laying down the law,

Art

Check out the Trailer for Stuck Outside of Phoenix the Movie, which will premiere in Tempe in early 2013.

Or try Stuck Outside of Phoenix in print form for just $5.

Or try Stuck for your Kindle for just $2.99.