New Gold City

A book announcement. The 1970s were the pinnacle years for conspiracy theories in America. Uncertainties about JFK's assassination got things rolling in the 1960s, but the stories got weirder and weirder the more we watched our great cultural heroes pass on into death well before their time -- Kerouac, Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, MLK, Jr., even Elvis -- to name just a few. For years it was said that no one ever saw The Doors' Jim Morrison's body after he died and that his grave in Paris was empty.  Conspiracy theorists had a field day when evidence of CIA misdeeds came to light during the Church Committee Hearings. No one had ever heard of Remote Viewing. The experiments performed by various military and CIA intelligence units on unwitting citizens using psychedelic drugs seemed like proof that the mysteries of LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin were more than psychological fancy.  As the 1970s gave way to the 1980s & 1990s, abandoned missile silos throughout the p...

And they also threw this in my face, they said, Anyway, you know good and well It would be beyond the will of God And the grace of a king. - Jimi Hendrix, “1983…(A Merman I Should Turn to Be)” Beyond the Will of God is a mystery coming out in Summer 2012. It ain't your run of the mill whodunit, though. Somehow everyone forgot all those conspiracy theories and weird coincidences that kept popping up in the late Sixties and all through the Seventies. More than anything, the music of folks like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Doors, and The Allman Brothers (even The Beatles and Elvis if you were paying attention) spoke to something deep and wild in each of us. Do you remember? Beyond the Will of God brings you back to that place, and offers a great deal of whacky ideas and provocative characters all related to a series of murders that take place in central Missouri during the heat of summer when the insects are buzzing and the air is thick with possibility once again. Here's how...