Meet Mellow and his bandmates in ROCK STARS, Volume I: Astrojuggernaut, which you can download right now as a FREE EPUB by clicking the link here. Melokuhle Ndelu (stage name Mellow Cool) was a South African guitarist and vocalist who joined the English rock band The Force during the production of its fourth album and…
You’ll meet Huvalu and his bandmates in ROCK STARS, Volume I: Astrojuggernaut, available as a FREE EPUB download from this site beginning tomorrow, Feb. 14. Huvalu Svith is a Hrue (Centauri) keyboardist and vocalist. He designed and played keyboards for a number of successful bands and orchestras among the reef cities of Proxima Centauri b before a cultural…
You’ll meet Kit and her bandmates in ROCK STARS, Volume I: Astrojuggernaut, available as a FREE EPUB download from this site beginning tomorrow, Feb. 14. Kit (first designated Rina B-0014) is a Japanese-English drummer and singer. She applied for and received emancipated, non-citizen status in England five years after her activation at Apaachaa Saiensu in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture)…
You’ll meet Optimus and his bandmates in ROCK STARS, Volume I: Astrojuggernaut, available as a FREE EPUB download from this site beginning Saturday, Feb. 14. Optimus Hercules (born Oliver Ellsworth) was a British singer and songwriter who gained worldwide celebrity as the lead vocalist and pianist of the rock band The Force (formerly Prime). Regarded…
Imagine you’re lucky enough to win front-row seats to a Bruce Springsteen or Taylor Swift concert, but you, my friend, are not Courteney Cox. Halfway through the show, when you’re absolutely losing your mind with fan-tastic glee, the singer suddenly reaches forward to pull you up on stage to sing along into the mic. What…
You’ll meet Dash and his bandmates in ROCK STARS, Volume I: Astrojuggernaut, available as a FREE EPUB download from this site beginning Saturday, Feb. 14. Nafasat Dashti, known professionally as Dash, is an English bass player and vocalist whose parents were Pakistani immigrants to Manchester. He’s a founding member of the rock band The Force,…
You can watch the Astrojuggernaut teaser video below, or you can download it to your device for free by clicking the green “Download” button. YouTube link: https://youtu.be/DRd-Ds1hWK0
In early 2020, I was in my first year of teaching middle school, a job I applied for and accepted out of absolute necessity, and I was miserable. There were times I felt so far out of my element I thought I must be hallucinating the midlife career change. My wife and I tried to…
Over the next few weeks, you’re going to see a lot of promotional material in support of my book release for Astrojuggernaut. I’m very proud of the ROCK STARS series, so I want to make sure it finds as wide as audience as possible. In the old days, publishers financed elaborate promotional efforts including signing…
Publisher’s blurb for Astrojuggernaut: Benevolent aliens have arrived. Who better to serve as the solar system’s cultural ambassadors than its most beloved English rock band? After all, the members of The Force include a cephalopod keyboardist from Proxima Centauri b and an artificially intelligent drummer, so this isn’t their first interaction with nonHuman sentients. Bass…
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