Intro to a 1999 piece on country genius Marty Stuart. From “Big Boy’s Big Rig,” available here. NOTE: Since I began posting the daily “From the Little Writing Room Above the Garage” posts, I’ve been getting messages asking if there was a way to slide a couple bucks into the tip jar. The answer is…View post
Thank you for all the pre-orders of Big Boy’s Big Rig. This is a fraction of the ones I’m signing this morning. They’ll be shipping in the next couple of days. Thank you! Get your paper copy here, get the Kindle version here, and all other eBook versions (including Apple Books, Kobo, Overdrive and more)…View post
Man, they killed Big Boy. From the book “Off Main Street,” available here, and referencing the title of this mini-book, available in paper and eBook format here. NOTE: Since I began posting the daily “From the Little Writing Room Above the Garage” posts, I’ve been getting messages asking if there was a way to slide…View post
Intro from the mini-book, available in paper and eBook format here. NOTE: Since I began posting the daily “From the Little Writing Room Above the Garage” posts, I’ve been getting messages asking if there was a way to slide a couple bucks into the tip jar. The answer is yes, and there’s a link below…View post
In the 1990s, when he was a magazine freelancer hustling books off a card table at craft fairs, the mall, and out of his car trunk, Michael Perry self-published two books: Why They Killed Big Boy and Other Stories and Big Rigs Elvis, & the Grand Dragon Wayne. In 2005, after the success of Perry’s book Population 485, Harper…View post