"All the virtues of old-fashioned story-telling. . . " -Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Sweetheart Season v??????R1994, Laurie Moss left Texas and headed west, determined to make it big as part of an L. A. rock and a single-minded drive to succeed, Laurie's career takes off-helped along by a leading rock journalist willing to tell her whole story. And what a story it is including everything from the big breaks to the brutality of the music industry. But there's more to Laurie's rise to fame than a colorful chronicle of the contemporary music scene. It's an epic tale of talent, fame, and woman's struggle to make it in a male-dominated business-in short, it's a story you won't soon forget.

"Lewis Shiner (December 30, 1950, Eugene, Oregon) is an American writer.Shiner began his career as a science fiction writer, identified early on with cyberpunk, and later wrote more mainstream novels, albeit often with magical realism and fantasy elements. He was formerly a resident of Texas (and a member of the Turkey City Writer's Workshop), and now lives in North Carolina.Several of his novels have rock music as a theme or main focus, especially the musicians of the late 1960s; for example, and the great never-recorded albums of The Doors, Brian Wilson, The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix in Shiner's 1993 novel Glimpses. Say Goodbye: The Laurie Moss Story (1999) focuses on a fictional up and coming female musician and her subsequent fall back down. Slam (1990) is immersed in skate punk and anarchist culture, and is a rocket ride tale of a guy that just cannot win. Perhaps because novels with music as a major theme are not generally considered mainstream genre material, his work has frequently been overlooked. Shiner is currently (Fall 2005) working on a new novel.