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Rock and Roll Voodoo (available Soon)
Honey and Leonard
The Hitchhike
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Jesse and his band, The Divebomberz, navigate the dangerous waters of rock and roll, south of New Orleans on the bayou. The voice of Voodoo comes to Jesse and guides him through the bar brawls, drug wars, fires and hurricanes of a band on the road.
A Voodoo priestess takes him under her wing. She escorts Jesse through the graveyards and back in time to the healing fires of Marie Laveau and into the middle of a Voodoo slave uprising in colonial Haiti. Death haunts his dreams and visions as the Muse fights to save him from the dark side of love. He learns to deal with club owners, recording studios, lawyers, temptations of the flesh and his own thrill-seeking need to be the center of attention. As the band evolves into playing clubs like Tipitina’s with Professor Longhair, Dr. John and Aaron Neville, Jesse discovers that Voodoo is about much more than telling fortunes and sticking pins in dolls. Preorder Learn More... Honey and Leonard fall in love in their seventies. When Leonard's sole heir tries to keep them apart, the couple flee to France in violation of court orders and a criminal investigation.
Their story becomes international news as they elude police, private investigators and the press. They become the Bonnie and Clyde of love. Leonard is in the early stages of Alzheimer's and Honey thinks her love will cure him. She is in the difficult process of discovering that love does not conquer all. Or does it? Preorder Learn More... There was a time, not long ago, when you could walk to the highway, stick out your thumb and catch a ride with a total stranger. Those were the days when sex was safe and rock and roll was the soundtrack for the revolution. Young people from all backgrounds hit the road with nothing but packs on their backs to find enlightenment and somehow end the war in Vietnam.
When I left on my journey I wasn't sure if I was an intrepid explorer or just another fugitive from justice. I had no idea I would end up meeting John Lennon, hitchhiking through the Iron Curtain, working on a collective farm in Hungary, living on a nude beach in Greece, nearly dying in a storm at sea, smoking opium in Iran, finding my soul in the music of Afghanistan, smuggling turquoise over the Khyber Pass into Pakistan and nearly dying from dysentery and the dagger of my Argentinian lover in India. I also had no idea that the women I would fall in love with along the way would change my life forever. Preorder Learn More... |