This month I am publishing my two book series about my wild rock and roll character Skye Wright, a character I’ve written stories about for years.
You can read an excerpt here:
http://needlepictures.com/tbd/2022/04/24/fast-and-frightening/
In this work I precede each chapter with a quote. Oftentimes it’s song lyrics, and other times it’s other writers, sometimes my friends and sometimes famous writers.
I also have Easter Eggs in my work. That is, references that only certain people will get. Sometimes they’re references that just about anyone could spot, like a quote from the television show The Young Ones, but oftentimes they’re references that only friends or colleagues would spot, such as the manager of an anarchist cafe being a friend’s cat, or a club named after a friend’s nickname.
One of the quotes preceding a chapter:
Were all equally broken, damaged,
And clueless individuals
Dani Dassler – PR
From Dani Dassler’s excellent punk novel PR. It’s the perfect quote for the scene!
As for Easter Eggs, in previous works I’ve named streets, clubs, and businesses after friends, or their bands, or any number of other familiar monikers. It comes in handy when I need a name for a street or a cafe. I also had a bookstore named after a friend’s surname in a previous work, one that was run by “A Norwegian who keeps telling the same jokes over and over again.”
Sources that are quoted in the chapter headings:
Bands whose lyrics I quote:
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Descendents
Arlo Guthrie
Das Untergangskommando
Bowling for Soup
Nena
Pinhead Gunpowder
Black Flag
Devo
Spitboy
The Replacements
Cobalt 60
Pixies
The Clash
Crimpshrine
Green Day
Blitz
Fang
Dead Kennedys
Descendents
Stiff little Fingers
Pet Shop Boys
L7 (Twice. The only source that I quote twice.)
Quotes from musicians:
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Mitski
Nick Cave
Lou Reed
Bob Dylan
Frank Sinatra
David Bowie
Joan Jett
Pat Benatar
Leonard Cohen
Writers I quote:
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Bobbie Ann Mason
Roddy Doyle
Mark Twain
Dani Dassler
Sir Francis Bacon
Ernest Hemingway
Herman Melville
John Steinbeck
Brenda Cooper
Pablo Neruda
Jack Kerouac
Kristin Hannah
Ben Jonson
Simon Warwick Beresford
Charles Bukowski
George Orwell
Oscar Wilde
Dorothy Parker
Maya Angelou
Helen Keller
Douglas Adams
Terry Pratchett
Ernest Hemingway
CE Hoffman
Emily Henry
Jeane Westin
Lemony Snicket
Other figures who are quoted:
- Mahatma Gandhi
George Carlin
Henry David Thoreau
Richard M Nixon
Charles Kingsley
Bob Ross
Margaret Mead
Albert Schweitzer
John Madden
Cicero
Euripides
Quotes from television shows and movies
- The Marvelous Mrs Maisel
The Young ones
Repo Man
A partial list of Easter Eggs in my two book series:
(FYI – Not tellin’! If you want to find any of these Easter Eggs you have to read the books and find them for yourselves!)
– A cafe named after a friend
– A restaurant that has a name suspiciously close to a diner in Rockridge, California.
– A dog named after friend’s pit bull
– A band named after a friend’s business
– A club named after a pair of friends, one whom is no longer among us
– A friend’s fictional punk band headlining at a club
– An artist and musicians warehouse named after a friend’s band
– An art gallery named after a artist friend’s moniker
– A boot camp trainer with a red-nosed pitbull that are strikingly similar to a trainer and pit bull that I know
– A bar named after a long lost friend, including a singer of teh house band that suspiciously resembles her
– Two bands named after friends’ novels
– A friends band playing at a show
– A club named after a friend’s nickname
– A band named after a friend’s roller derby team
– The name of a fictitious restaurant that was in a friend’s novel
– A bar with a beer garden with a name suspiciously similar to a Berkeley beer garden
– A quote from The Young Ones
Stella Maris is the sequel to my previous novel. Even though it can be read by itself, check out what Skye was up to before her adventures in Stella Maris!
https://www.amazon.com/What-Hell-Ever-Happened-Rozhenko-ebook/dp/B08WC4DK6G/
