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by C. Steven Blue
Dear Agent/Publisher/Editor,
I hope you will consider my 65,000 word, coming of age memoir, Heartbreak Kid, a cross between The Los Angeles Diaries, After the Fire, and On the Road. This is a hybrid book, containing entwined prose and verse, along with some of my early artwork. It is the story of a disillusioned, blue-collar teen, struggling to grow up on the streets of Hollywood during the turbulent 1960s-70s. Like our own time now, it was a time of social unrest, the search for justice, and speaking truth to power. With an inside look at the L.A. Hippie culture, this is my unvarnished story of love, betrayal, and redemption.
In 1965, I was part of the first busing experiments of the Civil Rights Movement. But In 1966, just as I turned 16, my family disintegrated and I moved with Mom to Hollywood, where I roamed the streets of the glittering Sunset Strip at night. I worked as a DJ in a teenage nightclub, with the bands who would become the legends of my generation, like Sonny & Cher, Love, and The Doors. It was there I met my first love, Katie. I took her on American Bandstand, where I was a regular dancer. Then she betrayed me with my best friend—so I smoked my first joint under the Santa Monica Pier. Nothing felt like home anymore! I embraced the Hippie counterculture, as the streets erupted in protests. Betrayed by love from my teens through my twenties—losing my children, my sobriety, and finally my sanity, I struggled to recover, restore my optimism, find hope about the future of truth and love.
Retired from a career in stage production in Hollywood, I now focus fully on my own artistic merits. As well as being an author, I am an artist, musician, and performance poet. I am a micro-press publisher, with seven self-published books of my poetry, including one on the process of recovery (all, in both print and e-book editions). I have produced, hosted, and videotaped literary events in Oregon and California for almost 30 years. My current monthly literary series of four years, at Barnes&Noble, is on pause during the pandemic. All of these things have helped me build a strong online platform. My first chapter is included below.
Thank you for your consideration,
C. Steven Blue
[email protected]
**To read the first chapter of Heartbreak Kid, click HERE
**To see more promotional info about me, click HERE
I hope you will consider my 65,000 word, coming of age memoir, Heartbreak Kid, a cross between The Los Angeles Diaries, After the Fire, and On the Road. This is a hybrid book, containing entwined prose and verse, along with some of my early artwork. It is the story of a disillusioned, blue-collar teen, struggling to grow up on the streets of Hollywood during the turbulent 1960s-70s. Like our own time now, it was a time of social unrest, the search for justice, and speaking truth to power. With an inside look at the L.A. Hippie culture, this is my unvarnished story of love, betrayal, and redemption.
In 1965, I was part of the first busing experiments of the Civil Rights Movement. But In 1966, just as I turned 16, my family disintegrated and I moved with Mom to Hollywood, where I roamed the streets of the glittering Sunset Strip at night. I worked as a DJ in a teenage nightclub, with the bands who would become the legends of my generation, like Sonny & Cher, Love, and The Doors. It was there I met my first love, Katie. I took her on American Bandstand, where I was a regular dancer. Then she betrayed me with my best friend—so I smoked my first joint under the Santa Monica Pier. Nothing felt like home anymore! I embraced the Hippie counterculture, as the streets erupted in protests. Betrayed by love from my teens through my twenties—losing my children, my sobriety, and finally my sanity, I struggled to recover, restore my optimism, find hope about the future of truth and love.
Retired from a career in stage production in Hollywood, I now focus fully on my own artistic merits. As well as being an author, I am an artist, musician, and performance poet. I am a micro-press publisher, with seven self-published books of my poetry, including one on the process of recovery (all, in both print and e-book editions). I have produced, hosted, and videotaped literary events in Oregon and California for almost 30 years. My current monthly literary series of four years, at Barnes&Noble, is on pause during the pandemic. All of these things have helped me build a strong online platform. My first chapter is included below.
Thank you for your consideration,
C. Steven Blue
[email protected]
**To read the first chapter of Heartbreak Kid, click HERE
**To see more promotional info about me, click HERE
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