Coming soon:
The Summer of Love — and the end of the world.
Haight-Asbury, San Francisco, August 5, 1967. Five hippies form a band they call Rock 'n' Roll Universe. All they want to do is get high, make love, make music — and get on the cover of the Rolling Stone. But when they encounter a Very Strange Fellow in the Golden Gate Park, very strange things happen, and mind-boggling forces propel the group into a cosmic battle for the very fate of the universe.
Rock 'n' roll made them. And only rock 'n' roll can save them.
Rock 'n' Roll Universe is in part a homage to and pastiche of one of my favorite books, The Butterfly Kid, 1975, by Chester Anderson. It is also in part autobiographical. I lived some of the events fictionalized here in the summer of 1967. But I'm not saying which.
I'm indebted to Julie Hyzy, Renee Stern, Jen Scholes, Amy Hanson, and Honna Swenson for their shrewd editorial insight in helping me write this book.