Strap in for today’s Big Idea, because we’re getting the band back together! At least, author Randee Dawn has brought us a fantastical band from Ireland. And with them comes some groupies, some gigs, and of course, some fae. Read on to see if The Only Song Worth Singing is touring in a city near you.
RANDEE DAWN:
Modern musicians, based on our pop culture renderings of them, are … well, kind of assholes. Want to create a character who’s simultaneously entitled, coddled, egoistic and (frequently) personal hygiene-avoidant? Get yourself a rock star. Based on portrayals on TV, in movies and often in books, the Rock Star™ model trashes hotels, terrorizes members of the opposite sex, eagerly experiments with inserting powders into nostrils – basically, they’re living clichés.
That’s not the portrayal I wanted for The Only Song Worth Singing, my new dark fantasy novel about a rock band on their first big American tour in the 1990s who are pursued, bedeviled and changed forever by several Irish fae…
Source: The Big Idea: Randee Dawn | Whatever
