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ISBN 978-0-7643-4338-4 Ghosts and Ballyhoo Memoirs of a Failed L.A. Music Journalist Thomas Wictor 80s Redux Your Favorite Musicians Today Mike Hipple, Foreword by Dave Holmes ISBN: 978-0-7643-4338-4 $19.99 US | £18.99 GBP | $28.99 CAN PB • 272 pp. • 6" x 9" (152 x 229 mm) 59 images Biography & Autobiography / Music AVAILABLE: NOW 9 780764 354960 5 2 9 9 9 ISBN:978-0-7643-5496-0 US $29.99 A nostalgia-infused deep dive into the stories of 40+ favorite acts of the decade. A nostalgic collection of portraiture and interviews featuring not only your favorite artists from the 1980s, but also artists you should know. The influence of ’80s culture is undeniable, perhaps most popularly in music. So what are the musicians who built the sonic landscape of the ’80s up to? Photographer Mike Hipple seeks to answer this and other burning questions with 40+ influential performers of the ’80s, including Lol Tolhurst from the Cure, Cindy Wilson from the B-52s, Robyn Hitchcock, punk pioneer Alice Bag, and Kristin Hersh from Throwing Muses. Join Hipple on this fan’s journey to three countries and all four corners of the US to get an intimate look at these hitmakers’ stories. Some are still releasing critically acclaimed records and touring, some could be the rock star that lives next door, and at least one is living a bohemian lifestyle in a 100-year-old farmhouse. Complete with a deft foreword by television personality and Esquire ’s L.A.-based editor-at-large Dave Holmes, this is the perfect book for fans of the eighties. ISBN: 978-0-7643-5496-0 $29.99 US | £27.99 GBP | $42.99 CAN HC • 144 pp. • 8" x 8" (203 x 203 mm) 84 color images Photography / Subjects & Themes / Portraits & Selfies Music / History & Criticism AVAILABLE: NOW A how-to manual for exorcism and achieving clarity and happiness at great personal cost. A chronicle of Thomas Wictor’s 10 years in the Los Angeles music industry and his quest to free himself from the past. Ostensibly a memoir, Ghosts also asks—and possibly answers—provocative questions about fate, destiny, and life after death. The book is structured as a collection of anthologies rather than a continuous narrative; the seven anthologies detailing Wictor’s failed career are separated by six interludes with the “Collateral Ghost,” one of the most brilliant, yet unsuccessful, musicians who ever played—former Frank Zappa bassist Scott Thunes. Thomas Wictor’s experiences include multiple failures across multiple spectra and an endless series of coincidences that always returned him to the notion that there is a Plan. Losing nearly everything he loved gave the author clarity, enabling him to see patterns of guidance and sustenance visible everywhere once he was no longer blinded by rage and negativity. This clarity exorcised Thomas Wictor and brought him peace of mind, which allowed him to transform the anger over what he lost into gratitude for what he once had. Written with profane humor and no self-pity, Ghosts and Ballyhoo includes previously unpublished articles, excerpts from interview transcripts, personal correspondence, and photos. Mike Hipple is a freelance photographer based in Seattle, Washington, and has worked with clients ranging from US News and World Report to Microsoft to Philips Technology to Sunset Magazine . A graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia, he has won numerous awards for his work. Thomas Wictor is the author of five books. A failed music journalist, failed military historian, failed novelist, failed ghostwriter, failed biographer, failed poet, failed essayist, failed rock musician, failed photographer, failed voiceover actor, failed copyeditor, failed technical writer, failed editor of the world’s first online newspaper, failed ladies’ man, and failed ally, he is the planet’s only expert on World War I flamethrowers. He lives happily by himself in Southern California. 22 FEATURED TITLES: SCHIFFER MUSIC