The HBS Author's Spotlight SHOWCASES Robert Yehling's New Book: Voices.
Robert not only is a Author, Editor and Poet but he teaches creative and spiritual writing and conducts workshops around the country.
Voices
Author: Robert Yehling
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Music. Love won, lost, regained. Festivals. Tours. Legends. Welcome to Voices.
Legendary rock and roll singer/songwriter Tom Timoreaux, who like many began during San Francisco’s epochal Summer of Love, emerges from a long retirement with his band, The Fever. When his backup singer cannot tour, he brings on his estranged daughter, Christine. As they sing together and heal their relationship, The Fever tours to national acclaim—and Christine becomes a star. Meanwhile, in Italy, Tom’s long-lost “love child,” Annalisa, views a Fever concert streamcast and must decide whether to reach out to a man she thought dead. Voices is a father-daughter-daughter relationship journey set against a half-century of rock and roll, where love and healing are always possible and music speaks louder than words.
Notes about Voices by Robert Yehling
Rock music legend TOM TIMOREAUX is coaxed out of retirement by popular demand and by their superb label owner, JASON ROBISKI. Tom and lead guitarist CHESTER CRAVEN form one of the greatest songwriting-playing duos in rock history; they and their superstar band, The Fever, are both in the Hall of Fame. Furthermore, Tom and his wife, MEGAN, were well-spoken, now iconic symbols of the most creative and loving qualities that emerged from the ‘60s. As they reform on the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, when they began performing in San Francisco, Tom hires his daughter, CHRISTINE, to sing backing vocals. While practicing for their national reunion tour from Tom and Megan’s New Mexico hacienda, they begin working out a strained relationship, triggered by Christine learning she had an older sister, ANNALISA, lost to Tom and presumed dead decades before.
The Fever opens its highly anticipated tour at the Haight Street Fair in San Francisco, where Tom’s dreams of being a musician took flight. After playing, he learns that Annalisa is still alive—and has just watched a streamcast of the concert from her home in Venice, Italy. As the band tours the country, revisiting old friends, playing consistent sold-out shows, and reminiscing about the past 50 years of rock and roll, Tom and Christine draw closer as the spectre of Annalisa re-entering his life grows. Complicating the matter, but also making it possible, is Annalisa’s new relationship with the band’s handler and label owner, Robiski—who met her while vacationing in Venice.
Meanwhile, as The Fever’s new release catches fire on the charts, the band becomes the story of the summer concert and festival circuit. Christine emerges as a star following the band’s remarkable wee-hours set before 200,000 at the Cumberland Festival; with that, the band finds a younger audience and Robiski is forced to add dates. A raucous summer of touring follows, culminating in three shows and a record launch party in L.A.—and the surprise arrival of Annalisa. Tom and Annalisa reacquaint, beginning with a long talk during a grunion hunt on Venice (CA) Beach, while Tom cedes center stage more and more to Christine.
During a tour break, Tom informs Megan, Christine and Annalisa he will step away from performing after their concert schedule ends, despite calls for the band to embark on an Eagles-like perpetual farewell tour. The band resumes with a week in New York that hits an ominous note when Annalisa’s son, PAOLO, is hospitalized with a cancer relapse. She, Tom, Megan and Christine fly to Venice, Italy to situate him, then return for a final spin on the road that leads to Tom’s climactic show, in the San Francisco Bay Area, preceded by a moment he’s waited four decades to have . . . walking down Haight Street with Annalisa, recalling their few years as father-daughter during another time, the Summer of Love, before she was taken to Italy.
VOICES celebrates five decades of the popular music culture, rock and blues music in particular, in a novel that interweaves dozens of stories from the author’s forty years as a music writer with characters that exemplify the people, time, and style that defined a generation—and continues to be emulated by other generations. It is a celebration of the Summer of Love, of musical and artistic creativity, and the power of healing and relationship. This father-daughter-lost daughter story is the rock-and-roll novel and beach read of the summer, set to the backbeat of a legendary band on an unexpected reunion tour.
Author Genre: Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry
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Author Description: Robert Yehling is a multi-genre, multi-subject, hybrid author who publishes both traditionally and through publishing partnerships. He is the Independent Publishers Book Award-winning author of nine books (soon to be 10) and ghostwriter of six others.
His list includes: five poetry/essay collections - the latest is "Backroad Melodies", published in June 2013; two award-winning books on writing - "Writes of Life: Using Personal Experiences in Everything You Write" and "The Write Time: 366 Exercises to Fulfill Your Writing Life"; "The Champion's Way," a look at the 11 common characteristics of great champions and how we can develop them in our own lives; and "Voices," a novel that will be published in Winter 2014.
Robert is editor of "The Hummingbird Review," a theme-based national literary anthology featuring new poetry, essays, short fiction and conversation with established writers as well as dynamic new voices. The Spring 2013 issue focuses on "Writing in Hollywood."
Robert is currently under contract with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for "Just Add Water," the biography of international surfing great Clay Marzo, who lives with Asperger's Syndrome. It is due for late 2014 release. He is also assisting Stevie Salas, the Contemporary Music Advisor to the Smithsonian Institution, on his memoir. Stevie was the lead guitarist on Rod Stewart's Out of Order Tour.
Robert began writing stories when he was five. He started his professional career in 1976, at age 16, when he was hired as a sportswriter by The Blade Tribune daily newspaper in North San Diego County. He spent seven years in the newspaper business, followed by 15 years as a specialty magazine writer and editor. He has been a book author, editor and author consultant for the past 12 years. He teaches on fiction, non-fiction, memoir and writer's promotion topics at writers conferences throughout the country.
Raised in Southern California, Robert grew up surfing and playing all sports - which he still loves. He is also a competitive distance runner, with three Boston Marathons to his credit (2005, 2007, 2009). He lives and works in North San Diego County, Calif.
You can see the latest from Robert, and the many authors whom he profiles and mentions, on his two blogs (see links above) .
Author's Book List
Just Add Water
- A Surfing Savant's Journey with Asperger'sFrom childhood, it was obvious that Clay Marzo’s single-minded focus on surfing was unique, his skills otherworldly. But the deeper reasons for this obsession didn’t become clear until his late teens, when Marzo was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome.
Marzo was already a surfing phenom, winning the National Scholastic Surfing Association championship at fifteen, but it was tough for him to relate to his peers and fit in. Only while surfing did he truly feel at peace. Just Add Water is the remarkable story of Marzo’s rise to the top of the pro surfing world—and the personal trials he overcame in making it there. Unflinching and inspiring, it is a brave memoir from a one-of-a-kind surfing savant who has electrified fans around the world and whose story speaks to the hope and ultimate triumph of the human spirit.
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Backroad Melodies: New Poetry & Essays
In this new collection of more than 50 poems and essays, Robert Yehling (Shades of Green, The River-Fed Stone, The Champion’s Way) returns to a prime source of inspiration and fulfillment – the back roads. Blending challenge with adventure, and natural observation with awakening, he uncovers the textures, rhythms, loves, tears, laughs, and ever-renewing cycle of life off the beaten path – visiting a few cultural icons along the way. Backroad Melodies reminds us of those treasure-laden roads deep inside ourselves that we all too rarely explore. “With clarity of thought and mastery of word order, Robert Yehling alarms the conscience, stimulates the brain, tugs at the heart, and tickles the funny bone—all to excess.” —Charles Redner, poet, author, publisher of The Hummingbird Review “You're talkin' my language. And drivin' my landscape. The colors. The sky…” —Luis Alberto Urrea, American Book Award-winning author of The Hummingbird’s Daughter and The Devil’s Highway, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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Stroking The Media!
- How To Work From HomeHow would you like to be able to get more exposure to any product, service or band without having to spend a lot of money? What if you can get that massive exposure without having to spend ANY money at all? How about giving your online and offline reputation a boost? This book can not only teach you how to do that but so much more by leveraging the media. This is the guide to becoming newsworthy and getting FREE publicity you couldn't buy. Brian Wilkes goes shares many powerful strategies to give you an advantage over the competition. The key is becoming genuinely newsworthy so that the media regards you as a reliable source of information in your field, the “go-to guy” when they need a comment or analysis.
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The Champion's Way
It's the first thing they think about every morning and the last thing before bed. Their days, weeks, months and years revolve around it. They are champions on their most difficult, rewarding path that separates them from all competition. Self-perfection burns in their hearts. They aim to be the very best, and to win. Always. In this practical and captivating guide to athletic excellence, former US Ski Team conditioning coach Dr. Steve Victorson and sports journalist/coach Robert Yehling show how the best competitors on the planet get there. Through over 60 interviews, anecdotes and stories, and drawing from Victorson’s doctoral dissertation, the authors demystify the champion's way through 11 specific qualities that all champions master. The Champion's Way offers a path for anyone in pursuit of excellence. Only the greatest get there - but the possibility lies within each of us. For athletes, sports fans and those inspired to achieve their very best in any pursuit, this book will show a path that many have discussed, but few have revealed.
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The Write Time
After ten years of development, The Write Time: 366 Exercises to Fulfill Your Writing Life is complete! These incisive, story-driven exercises offer working writers—professional, academic and aspiring alike—a chance to polish their specialties while experimenting with new expressions. Other features: • Motivational quotes after every exercise • Author birthdays • Space to jot notes or self-prompts • More than 120 featured websites for writers • Western, Celtic and Native American sun signs
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The River-Fed Stone
THE RIVER-FED STONE follows the current of a season that flowed through love, settlement, inner journeying, great celebration, new and renewed friends, adventures in diverse landscapes, soul reclamation, deep loss, and contemplation of new roads. In this collection of more than 70 poems and 10 essays, author Robert Yehling utilizes poetic forms old and new to convey the polishing process that life provides souls committed to growth, when they will allow themselves to absorb and feel each experience. He also celebrates poetry itself, the oldest form of literature-and, along with music, the language that connects the seen and unseen worlds.
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Coyotes in Broad Daylight
otes in Broad Daylight brings together the timeless themes of community, nature, love, humor and observation, plus current social issues, in a collection of new poems and essays. Author Robert Yehling explores a world without the many masks of fear and self-trickery that we wear for acceptance and survival, a world in which we reveal our deepest selves and separate from the tricks the world and others can play on us. This collection also features a few selections written in previously forgotten Ancient Greek poetry forms, as well as a series of new essays that will challenge and entertain you.
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Shades of Green
The layers of life and heart intermingle with observations of nature's rhythms and tides on four continents in Shades of Green, Robert Yehling's first printed collection of poetry and essays in 15 years. Spanning nearly a quarter century, Shades of Green presents more than 60 poems and essays that capture moments experienced in castles, the Italian Alps, Machu Picchu, the Himalaya mountains, a homeless man's cardboard hovel, an Apollo astronaut's house, Hopi mesas, a dying youth's ping-pong table, the eyes of two lovers, and more.
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Writes of Life One
- Using Your Personal Experiences In Everything You Writethe crucible of human nature. Personal stories form the basis of most great literature-whether fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays or biography. Let's allow the magical, mystical storyteller within us to spin our thousand and one tales with complete freedom and abandon, and use our own walk as the authentic foundation for our writing life.
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