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My bios of Johnny Cash and Andy Warhol are out!

Both are listed as "In Stock" on Amazon and I have my author's copies, so it must be true! Here are the covers (and the back-cover copy) for each: Johnny Cash: The Man in Black When country music legend Johnny Cash took the stage at Folsom State Prison in 1968, he solidified the public's perception of him as a rebel who followed his own path. Born in Arkansas during the Great Depression, Cash endured poverty, the death of his older brother, and a difficult relationship with his father. He turned to gospel and country music to express the pain, and after many years of struggling, his songs of hardship ...

Posted by Edward Willett at 13:17, August 23rd, 2010 under Blog | Comment now »

Short story sale, and an end to Warhol!

I just had an email tonight that I've sold a short story, "Waterlilies," to Space & Time Magazine. Yay! It's the humorous tale of an artistic nanotech apocalypse. (No, seriously!)And another big Yay!, plus a sigh of relief: tonight I emailed my children's biography of Andy Warhol to Enslow Publishers. I had to put on a big push this past few days to get it done by the deadline, which was today (and was already an extension on the original deadline, which was the end of October). I can't tell you how pleased I am to send Andy out the door. Having immersed myself in his world for the last little while, I suspect I would ...

Posted by Edward Willett at 4:06, November 13th, 2008 under Blog | Comment now »

Looking ahead to 2008…

...it appears I will be writing two more books for Enslow's American Rebels series, for which I wrote the Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin biographies: one on Johnny Cash and one on Andy Warhol.Should be fun!Now I should really finish the two pending Enslow books I have to write...

Posted by Edward Willett at 15:41, September 13th, 2007 under Blog | Comment now »