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July 16, 2015

NIGHT PEOPLE – ON SALE NOW thru JULY 23 – $2.99

NIGHT PEOPLE Book 1 – Things We Lost in the Night, A Memoir of Love and Music in the 60s with Stark Naked and the Car Thieves ON SALE NOW for the next week – July 16 thru July 23 for $.299! GET YOUR COPY NOW!  


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Published on July 16, 2015 12:04

July 8, 2015

NetGalley Features Night People

I’m pretty excited to see that NetGalley has featured NIGHT PEOPLE, Things We Lost in the Night on their main page. Hope that augers well for the book’s future.


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Published on July 08, 2015 19:34

June 18, 2015

Author Interview with Sophia Tallon

First of all, tell us a little about yourself! I’ve lived my life in several improbable incarnations. My memoir, Things We Lost in the Night, A Memoir of Love and Music in the 60s with Stark Naked and the Car Thieves tells about my years in music as a singer/musician/performer, and a bit about where I was raised in Indianapolis, Indiana. After those six years contained in two books, NIGHT PEOPLE, which is being released […]

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Published on June 18, 2015 10:51

June 3, 2015

NIGHT PEOPLE LAUNCH PRE-ORDER SALE!

FRIENDS AND FAMILY PRE-ORDER SALE FOR KINDLE BOOK – $2.99 It’s almost here! NIGHT PEOPLE, Book 1 – Things We Lost in the Night, A Memoir of Love and Music in the 60s with Stark Naked and the Car Thieves, goes public on June 15th. The print paperback will go allegedly go on sale at the same time, though we’ll see how accurate that is. I’ve still got some free ARC books for anyone who […]

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Published on June 03, 2015 16:55

May 7, 2015

Congratulations to recent book giveaway winners

I've run two short giveaways for Night People, Book 1 of THINGS WE LOST IN THE NIGHT, A Memoir of Love and Music in the 60s with Stark Naked and the Car Thieves. Almost 900 people who entered the drawings and all of the winners either have their books or in the case of the latest, are on the their way.

I've just started a third giveaway that will run five days starting next Saturday, May 9th running through Midnight of Thursday, May 14th. I prefer to run shorter contests so more people get chances at the book. Hope you'll take this opportunity to receive your signed ARC copy of Night People, Things We Lost in the Night, A Memoir of Love and Music in the 60s with Stark Naked and the Car Thieves.
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Published on May 07, 2015 13:18 Tags: book-giveaway, contest, hollywood, las-vetgas, love, memoir, music-of-the-60s, san-franciso-bay-area

May 4, 2015

Why You Should Write A Five-minute Book Review

Here’s why you should take 5 minutes to write a book review. Because you liked the story. Because it helps the author. Because it might lead to the author writing and publishing another story  which you might like as well or better. Because if you don’t, you may not find another book by an author you like. Or a  similar one, in the same genre or writing style. Have you ever had a favorite TV […]

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Published on May 04, 2015 11:51

April 7, 2015

LA Times Festival of Books ARC Give-away

Larry and Andrew will be at the LA Times Festival of Books on Sunday on the USC Campus to give away promotional copies of Things We Lost in the Night, Night People. We’ll be in the Greater Los Angeles Writers Society (GLAWS) Booth 953 from 12:20 to 2:00 pm, Sunday afternoon, the 19th of April. The event is free, though parking is not. Please drop by and see us if you plan to be there. […]

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Published on April 07, 2015 11:14

April 6, 2015

DOWNLOAD FREE BOOK

During this pre-release ARC review stage of THINGS WE LOST IN THE NIGHT, A Memoir of Love and Music in the 60s with Stark Naked and the Car Thieves, Book 1: Night People is free to download.

At http://larryjdunlap.com/book/things-w... the free ARC Kindle and Epub files are available for download. If you need instructions on how to get the file into your eReader, they are at the bottom of this page.

As you probably know reader reviews have the power to make or break a book. All I ask is that if you enjoyed the book, consider reviewing it on Goodreads at http://tinyurl.com/pyleqxn and by passing along this download site or copies of the book files.
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Published on April 06, 2015 16:17 Tags: free-arc-ebook

March 8, 2015

The Power of the Pill in the late 60s

“She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry” Mary Dore’s documentary of The Women’s Movement 06 March 2015 | By Reverend Irene Monroe I’ve always contended that the Pill was one of the main contributors to many if not all of the upheavals of the 60s, not just the women’s movement that got started then. When Margaret Sanger, who felt that women should be allowed to pursue sex with the same sense of abandon as men, combined with […]

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Published on March 08, 2015 12:27

March 2, 2015

YouTube Videos of Stark Naked and the Car Thieves’ songs

(Update from post in March 2011 – larryjdunlap.com/ljd-blog) An amazing thing has happened on YouTube. One of the things we all mourn is the loss of one the first music videos ever, which we did in Hawaii for “Look Back in Love” in 1968, the song was supposed to become our first big, national hit. Not only did it feature the band, but also the Hawaiian girl I met there and later married, (Things We […]

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Published on March 02, 2015 03:58