Pleased to announce that “The Nook at…
Pleased to announce that “The Nook at Caesars Palace” was published in the Inlandia’s Literary Journal anthology, “2012 Writing from Inlandia”, last week. “The Nook” is an advance excerpt from “Look Back in Love, memoir of A Naked Car Thief.” At the end of 1966, Stark Naked and the Car Thieves became the first rock band to play in a major Las Vegas strip hotel. Of course it wasn’t without controversey; we weren’t allowed to use our own name (too suggestive) and had to appear as the Big Spenders, and oh, we weren’t supposed to play songs that actually rocked, just sing our harmony and soft rock ballads. To top it off, one of the other five acts on the bill opening the new Nero’s Nook lounge, was our nemesis, the Checkmates Ltd., a group from our home state who had haunted us almost from the moment our singing group had become a band. Something had to give, and it did.
It was my first public reading and I was nervous, but thankfully the story was well received. I’m grateful to Inlandia for publishing “The Nook” in the 2012 anthology. It will help immensely as I attempt to bring the book to completion over the next few months.
