“Not Just a Gun But Dancing,” is a must read, a tale of late-night visitation and sleeplessness by Sylvie Simmons, the award-winning writer and author of best-selling Leonard Cohen biography, “I’m Your Man.” In “Not Just a Gun,” all of the men who have ever shared the narrator’s bed, or her life, come to her ghost-like and she sees them clearly, “all who wanted to be brave and tried but couldn’t.”
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By recording artist, producer, and songwriter Jesse Harris, “A Camp Story” is about the confusing adolescent love lessons of some young campers. Harris is the real deal, not only an amazing songwriter (he won a Grammy for his song “Don’t Know Why,” recorded by Norah Jones) but an excellent writer of short fiction too.
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In the second installment of “Cold Weather” by former Golden Palomino and novelist Lori Carson, Owen Ash, musician turned marijuana dealer, gets out of the hospital and soon finds himself living with the enigmatic Dahlia — until she disappears. Part mystery and part dog-loving, musician’s rumination, in “Cold Weather, Part Two,” things get complicated.
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“Jacob,” by writer and songwriter Gee Henry, is a story about a man who wakes up with a dark feeling that he can’t shake or name: “Something was missing and had always been missing.”
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Songwriter, producer, and recording artist, Matt Keating has written “The Piano,” a creative non-fiction piece about a very special discarded piano that seems destined to belong to him, despite his misgivings. It all begins with a voice in his head that tells him to “turn left.”
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“Seventies Gold,” by writer and Moth StorySLAM winner, Elizabeth Trundle (who recorded for Caroline Records as Boo Trundle) is a work of fiction about the trials and tribulations of a girl named Katchie. Wry, nostalgic, and poignant.
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The first installment of “Cold Weather,” about Owen Ash, a musician turned drug dealer who gets into some serious trouble in Part One, by writer and musician Lori Carson.
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United For Opportunity is proud to release, for the first-time on ebook, a New Expanded Edition of Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful of Gitanes by Sylvie Simmons, the award-winning rock writer and the New York Times Best-selling author of I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen. Originally published in 2001, long out of print and never until now available digitally, A Fistful of Gitanes was the first biography in English to capture Gainsbourg in all his gleeful outrageousness and contradictions, and counted Gainsbourg’s longtime partner Jane Birkin and legendary novelist JG Ballard among its avid fans.
Simmons’s work will stand as the definitive take on a dizzying genius. This new edition, which includes an expanded discography, will be available digitally in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and Japanese is available exclusively through Amazon.com here.
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