I had a good talk with my editor during lunch. Between bites of albino Velveeta heartbun tamales I pointed out to him that he’s become more than an editor to Books of Blues. He’s become part of the story. First off that means that I’ll have to share a higher percentage of profits of the [...]
Welcome to Nat Finn and DB Fraizer’s How to Publish a Book of Blues. Hopefully, where we combine Plan A and Plan B together in hopes that someday our lifelong dreams of publishing blues books become a reality. Plan A: To write about our adventures in getting our drafts edited and published. This includes trials, [...]
Back in the 1990′s, I got my cousin to listen to a abstract, coffee house hip-hip band from New York named Soul Coughing. Back in the early 2000′s, my cousin came to visit me when I lived in a place my world dubbed The Corn Crib. As we were playing Cornhole in The Corn Crib, [...]
I didn’t know how bad my bad day was until my supervisor told me the news: “Did you hear?” “Hear what?” “Your boy, LeRoi Moore, died today.” It was August 19th, 2008. I was groaning over an ex-girlfriend’s birthday and over the thoughts that she was in the city (Chicago). Petty, figuring I haven’t seen [...]