I’ve written extensively about hard rock literature over at my book blog Slushpile.net. And I must admit that I’ve gotten a bit weary of the offerings from my favorite rockers. While I enjoyed Duff McKagan’s It So Easy and Zakk Wylde’s Bringing Metal to the Children, some of the other books have left me cold [...]

“Shortly after A Time to Kill was published in 1989, I was on the campus of Mississippi State trying desperately to unload a few of the books at $18.95 a piece. I had purchased a thousand copies, and had already learned the painful lesson that selling books was more difficult than writing them. –John Grisham [...]

Power Chord has scenes set in a number of locales around the country. Some are places where I lived as a child and in college. Other sites are places I visited in order to meet this guitar player or that guitar player. They range from small towns to big cities, from rural Oklahoma campsites to [...]

Be sure to ‘like’ the official Power Chord page on Facebook. During his quest to meet an array of guitar heroes, Scott took tons of photos of the musicians in concert as well as some quirky sites from the road. Where else are you going to be able to see a close-up photo of Steve [...]