Still in stores in New York, Chicago, and online.
Now in Austin, New Orleans, and central Mexico.
AUSTIN
NEW ORLEANS
GUANAJUATO, MEXICO
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Good books spreading south
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Tag Archives: historical novels
Gary’s Shelf in NYC
Finally got my own shelf at Quimby’s Brooklyn, NYC!
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In all the best cities
Now in all the best cities: New Orleans, New York, Chicago
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Psychedelic fiction
Get your psychedelic reading fix on with Hippies and Alice.
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Hippies free
Hippies is free this week. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MTGGWZV/
Go on. Do it. Release your inner hippie.
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Hippies TV
View the Twitch.tv episode (Yes We Cannibal) on Hippies here.
Go ahead. Click the cover below. Release your inner hippie.
Read it. Share it. Drop a rating on Amazon.
4.1 stars in 82 Amazon ratings.
Featured in radio interviews on KSKQ Oregon and WRBH New Orleans.
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Hippies won’t stop
More news on Hippies (which is still at 99c for a few more days).
Here’s a link to my latest radio interview: WRBH interview on Hippies
Feel free to share 🙂
Gary
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99c Hippies
HIPPIES 99c this week (US). Download and sink in for under a buck.
- 4.1 stars on 73 Amazon ratings.
- Selected for radio interviews on KSKQ Oregon (May 2020) and WRBH New Orleans (July 2021).
- Author is a Faulkner-Wisdom Prize finalist.
- Featured here in Book Reader Magazine.
Go ahead. Click it. Release your inner hippie.
Read it. Share it. Drop a rating on Amazon.
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Before you know it
I didn’t even realize it. Hippies is free again this week.
Follow Jazmine and Ziggy through their Age of Aguarius sorrows, joys, and wonders.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MTGGWZV/
Go on. Do it. Release your inner hippie.
Just be nice for the freebie and write an honest Amazon review, however brief 🙂
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Hippies in the yard
Here’s another small clip from my novel, Hippies. In this one, several characters of the two-house commune are being introduced as they play around in the yard. (The two houses are the Duck and the Island.) Had you the decency to read the book, you’d know about half of these characters from the previous chapter.
Duck common residents: Ziggy, Jazmine, Ragman, Stormy, Rose Petal
Island common residents: Tex, Hoss, Gina, Pepper
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Stormy paused, and Rag walked back into the elongated house, the Duck. Meanwhile, Gina and Hoss came out of the fat square house, the Island, from across the yard. Gina was a tiny, quiet thing, and Hoss a big, garrulous walrus of a man – perhaps too garrulous. Like Pepper, he did not know when to shut up, but with completely opposite results. She was all waspish wit, ready for a smack-down, and he was all love and trust and geniality, with a ready bear-hug for any stranger. Indeed, it was his affability that led him to think that a tray of pot brownies would be enjoyable for all at a faculty/student social his sophomore year. That he was expelled for such a kindness seemed a cosmic injustice, but he was good enough with the guitar to make a few bucks at cafes and on the street, and he did contract work at bigger music venues like The Warehouse, so he took it all in lumbering stride. Gina’s place in the Island was ambiguous, as the best anyone could tell was that she moved between the Island bedrooms of Hoss and Pepper, occasionally shifting to the couch if she needed her own space and no bohemian transients were in town and on it. Tex held the remaining bedroom in the Island and he mostly kept his room to himself.
“Hey, Stormy, where’s the Rag?” bellowed Hoss.
“He’s inside watching Rose Petal.” Rose Petal was Stormy’s two-year-old daughter. Together with Ragman, Ziggy, and Jazmine, this mother-daughter pair completed the permanent roster of Duck residents, at least for the time being. Of course, both the Duck and the Island had their parade of transients and hangers-on.
“Hahaha, that Rag,” roared Hoss inexplicably, shaking his head like a giant potato all covered with coarse, bushy hair.
He unclasped his guitar case, and he and Tex plucked out a few lines together. Then Tex strummed out the first chords of a song, and Hoss laid on with the notes. Hoss would sing this one, mellowing his voice to the sweet timbre of a Jewish cantor on a High Holiday.
A new day is coming, people are changing
Ain’t it beautiful, crystal blue persuasion . . .
In the pauses one could tell — Tex was good, but on guitar Hoss was master.
“My god,” Jazmine said. “Look at that crescent moon and Venus so bright. It’s like something planetary is really happening. A sign of something coming.” Everyone looked at the sky, a velvet blanket full of stars, no doubt, but with the moon and Venus most illustrious.
Stormy, spinning with her dress spread out as the song ended, chanted at the sky: “Gnomes of the earth, Nymphs of water, Sylphs of the air, and Salamanders of fire.”
“Where do you come up with this shit, Stormy,” asked Hoss cheerily, adjusting the guitar on his lap.
“Elemental spirits, baby, you can get ‘em from a book if it ain’t in your soul. Like Pepper says, don’t y’all ever read anything?”
“Hoss never got past picture books,” Tex quipped. Then he strummed another random chord while Hoss took a hit on the joint and sprawled back to look at the stars. But random as Tex’s chord was, Stormy knew what he was thinking, and as soon as he hit the strings again, she was singing along:
When the moon is in the seventh house
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
She sang it from a soulful, timeless depth, like it was no joke, and kept swaying, her carob skin gleaming a perfect blend of spiritual mystery and sensual presence.
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars.
This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius . . .
Under that Venus and that moon on that early spring night of 1970, a half dozen hippies believed earnestly, joyfully, that indeed a planetary change was coming. The tragic naivete of their idealism had not yet hit.
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