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For Anyone Who's Ever Wanted to Make it in the Music Business ...

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Rob Hirst, Midnight Oil
"Loved it. I felt I knew almost all the seedy, manipulative, gold-digging music biz characters - but fortunately only on a two-faced air-kiss kind of basis ... Funny, astute, honest. And totally relevant to today's Aussie Idol generation of rock/pop/rap wannabes."

 

The Age

"Euan Mitchell, author of the independent bestseller Feral Tracks, knows his rock’n’roll … and this laid-back, ironic take on the Australian music industry in the ’90s captures the spirit of the time. It’s fast-paced and grungy, full of backroom intrigue and colourful characters."

Sydney Morning Herald

"Euan Mitchell does a nice line in laid-back prose. His second novel, Making Noises, tells its story with unpretentious relish ... This is a satire on political opportunism ... but it is both warm and irreverent; it wants young men to find a point to their lives."

John Archer, Hunters & Collectors
"In the same way that Spinal Tap is not a fiction, neither is Making Noises. The stuff in both stories really does happen."

Available through all good bookstores:
RRP A$23.95, NZ$29.95, ISBN 978-0-9757979-2-1.

Euan Mitchell's second novel, Making Noises, was launched by John Archer (Hunters & Collectors). The launch featured a performance of the song from the novel by Sean Kelly (TISM), Alan Brooker (Paul Kelly & The Dots) and Jack Howard (Hunters & Collectors). Thanks to Kieran Butler, you can view part of their performance by clicking on this link to YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5pIq2IdLqs

Making Noises: story intro
Marty is a rock musician on the wrong side of thirty who needs to change his tastes in music, women and cities. Billy is fifteen, talented and in prison.

The two are thrown together by the fast-talking former politician, Perce ‘Perk’ Harrigan, whose powerful friends have handed him the plum job of launching the Oz Rock Foundation. Oz Rock uses taxpayer dollars to promote Australian bands and quietly lift the Prime Minister’s youth vote.

Harrigan and his sultry but fascist assistant, Ingrid, need to ‘spin’ Oz Rock into orbit despite the cynics. They enlist Marty’s help to manipulate Billy to the top of the music charts. But their greatest enemy may not be the one publicly calling for Harrigan’s head.

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Updates to Self-Publishing Made Simple
by Euan Mitchell
For updates to the second edition of Self-Publishing Made Simple: The Ultimate Australian Guide, please click on the Non-Fiction link (above left), then scroll down. This is the bestselling book in its field and is now available in all good bookstores, writers' centres, the Australian Society of Authors, or buy online at a generous discount via www.bookworm.com.au

The Single Gentleman's Dining Club
by Tony McMahon 
Details about Tony McMahon's very funny debut novel, The Single Gentleman's Dining Club, can be found by clicking on the Fiction link (above left).

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