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The Funniest People in Music, Volume 3: 250 Anecdotes    by David Bruce
Price: $1.00 USD. 25960 words. Published on October 30, 2011. .

A sample: Even very good musicians can have an off night. A team of musicians led by jazz saxophonist Branford Marsalis once mightily messed up “April in Paris.” After they had “played” the song, Mr. Marsalis announced to the audience that they had just heard “April Embarrassed.”
The Beatles In Cleveland: Memories, Facts & Photos About The Notorious 1964 & 1966 Concerts    by Dave Schwensen
Price: $4.99 USD. 46460 words. Published on November 19, 2011. .

Two of the wildest concerts in Beatles and rock'n roll history. Includes never before published photos of The Beatles and eyewitness accounts from promoters, opening acts, deejays, fans and others. A concert by The Beatles was not just about the music, but also the emotions stirred by the most influential group in the history of popular music. Foreword by Bill Harry, founder of "Mersey Beat."
King Trevor    by Susan Helene Gottfried
Price: $3.99 USD. 77750 words. Published on March 30, 2012. .

When Mitchell hatches a plan to turn Trevor into the official King of ShapeShifter, it sounds to Trevor like bunk. However, the Big Idiot hires the best architect around—the brother-in-law he’s never met. Trevor can’t help but smell secrets that awaken the person he used to be. After all, there’s nothing Trevor Wolff likes more than intrigue -- except a chance to square off against Kerri.
Achieving Apollo    by Rachael Leslie
Price: $1.99 USD. 54520 words. Published on April 6, 2012. .

The dreams and visions that haunted rock star Bert Myers as a child have returned, and they've brought strange visitors who make claims about who Bert truly is. He must decide whether to continue his life as a rock guitarist or to accept that he is Apollo and join his Olympian family in saving Mother Earth from the sickness caused by the presence of the Titans.
Outside Looking In    by Pete Mitchell
Price: $2.99 USD. 29590 words. Published by Derwent Press  on June 2, 2012. .

Life has its price, and one way or another; we will all pay for it. In 1966, I went to see a clairvoyant called, 'Madame Faye.' Her prediction of the death of president J.F. Kennedy brought her worldwide recognition. For me she predicted, “You will be successful with your music, but only after a long hazardous journey, and you'll have to sacrifice everything for it."
Tender    by Mark Childress
Price: $2.99 USD. 181820 words. Published on June 25, 2012. .

Stephen King: "Mark Childress's novel, TENDER, is a little more than just a fine novel; it is a big, all-American, Technicolor dreamboat of a book, as vital and as intense as anything I've read in the last 10 years. Childress's understanding and love of this new music lends Tender the sort of piney woods authenticity I associate with such American classics as Elmer Gantry and All The King's Men."
Heart Song    by Sarah J. McNeal
Price: $0.99 USD. 14240 words. Published by Publishing by Rebecca J. Vickery  on June 28, 2012. .

Facing death might change Gideon’s life... Gideon thought he had the perfect life as a musician with a beautiful model as his girlfriend, until he was diagnosed with breast cancer. Ashamed and afraid he may die, Gideon hits bottom when his girlfriend dumps him for a “real” man. Hope comes in the form of his father’s ghost and a person he has just met. Can he beat the odds and survive?
The Minstrel Boy    by Laura Vosika
Price: $3.50 USD. 165590 words. Published on July 4, 2012. .

On a misty night in the Scottish Highlands, Shawn Kleiner, modern American musician, and Niall Campbell, devout medieval warrior, both fall asleep in the same castle tower, seven centuries apart. They wake up in each other's time. In The Minstrel Boy, Shawn's girlfriend Amy seeks answers in historical records. What she finds is not answers, but more questions.
Harry Houdin: "The Great Polynational Mimic"    by Tom Interval
Price: Free! 4800 words. Published on September 30, 2012. .

Introducing Harry Houdin—one of the most versatile performers you've never heard of. Born decades before the great Harry Houdini, he toured Australia and New Zealand between 1860 and 1863 with a one-man act featuring drawing-room magic and international impersonations done to song and dance. Students of magic history will enjoy this first formal work of research on the "polynational" entertainer.
Transit.    by Jacob Steele Sandomire
Price: Free! 610 words. Published on October 27, 2012. .

A proem about the tube, the subway, all the adventures you'll have, all the people you'll meet, or see, throughout several weeks of wonder, maybe years of perspective, all fit into the thimble that the universe came from. Where upon you can give them the old finger and fly off the handle.