Elise Brianne is currently singing and strumming in a tiny high desert hot springs town in New Mexico and working toward recording her first studio album. A favorite, "Holy Now", was recorded in 2014 by Tom Bones in Staten Island, NY, with music and lyrics written by Rob Carey of The Headlocks. "All I Need" and "Drift Away" were recorded by Jeff Curtin of The Minstrels in Rochester, NY from 2007 to 2008, pre west coast wandering years. 

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by Joe Nelms

Christian Franco is embracing the despair of divorce, doing nothing to slow the implosion of his career, friendships, and relationships. He camps out at bars to pick fights, finding that getting his ass kicked allows him his only meditative moments, something he explores with sardonic zeal. Nine years of his childhood are entirely repressed, a consequence of his father killing his mother when Christian was eight. But as Christian is beaten to death in a bar brawl, his life flashes before his eyes and a long repressed memory resurfaces: the stoop of his childhood home, his father in the back of a cop car, and his mother being wheeled away on a gurney. Christian is resuscitated and comes alive with driving purpose. He must know more. What follows is Christian's increasingly desperate attempts to kill himself, be revived, and slowly piece together snapshots from his childhood to understand this rediscovered self-knowledge and find how it can help him rebuild his life and marriage. Alternating between calculated suicide attempts and heartbreaking memories of a happier time, Christian revels in the underbelly of New York City in a spectacular downward spiral. Nelms captures Christian's spectacular implosion in punchy, quotable prose, covering a Gotham from glossy Midtown offices to seedy Bronx dog fights. THE LAST TIME I DIED has the murky, teasing reality of Fight Club and the gleeful violence of American Psycho, but is entirely fresh, in a voice all its own. (Source: Amazon)

Purchase: The Last Time I Died

If you live in New York City, there may be a good chance you may run into Randy Kearse selling his books in the subway station.  

Purchase: Changin' Your Game Plan: How to use incarceration as a stepping stone for SUCCESS

Once deemed a menace to society by a judge who sentenced him to 15 years, Randy Kearse (author, motivational speaker, and entrepreneur) served 13 years, 6 months, and 2 days in federal prison. He returned home a new man with a new perspective, a fresh focus, and a strong determination to succeed. In a first book of its kinda, CHANGIN' YOUR GAMEPLAN is about the journey of change one MUST embark on in order to live a positive, productive, and successful life after prison. A no-holds-barred blueprint of how to succeed after one's street game plan fails and leads to incarceration. (Source: Goodreads) 

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