Posts Tagged ‘Pepperland’

Pepperland – Live at The Tattered Cover – May 2013

Monday, January 21st, 2013

Pepperland – my new novel, slated for a May 2013 release date, will shake, rattle and roll into Denver’s LoDo District with a live, in-person authorial appearance at one of the great American bookstores–The Tattered Cover. Can’t get much better than that. If you’re anywhere in the western third of these United States in late […]

Pepperland coming Spring 2013…

Thursday, October 18th, 2012

News flash!  Pepperland – the novel – will be published in the spring of 2013 by Running Meter Press, an imprint of Big Earth Publishing of Boulder, CO!  Paperback and ebook. Let’s rock. Think the Ramones meet Jane Fonda meets Bill Gates. What? Pepperland is a noir love letter to the magic of music, the […]

Area man reads novel excerpt

Friday, February 5th, 2010

So here’s a little bit of Pepperland, read on the evening of February 3, 2010 in Chicago at the Reading Under the Influence monthly session at the Sheffield.  If you’re anywhere close to Chicago, you oughta go sometime. Pepperland is set in Chicago during the winter of 1974 and it’s about the intersection of rock […]

The novel “Pepperland” considered

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

(Since this post, which was written in January 2010,  Pepperland, you’ll be happy to know, is now finished.  It rocks. Release date: May 21, 2013.) So the review copy of Barry Wightman’s still unfinished novel of the intersection of rock ‘n roll, technology and love, Pepperland, showed up on my groaningly chaotic desk, tossed there […]