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R.J. Stowell

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Born

in Passaic, NJ, The United States

Website

https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B07BN2P4VP?ref_=pe_1...

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Fiction, Contemporary, Music

Influences

Steinbeck, Didion, Hemingway, Capote, Raymond Carver

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Before I was born, my parents flip-flopped across the country, and finally, when I was 8 weeks old, they settled in the San Fernando Valley. The story of my life can best be found, lots of details, in my (fictitious) memoir, Jay and the Americans, which is mostly true - like a resume; some stretchers, as Mark Twain would say. Jay is available on Amazon.

My mother was a backup singer for the likes of Burt Bacharach and Ray Conniff. My father painted rock 'n' roll billboards on the Sunset Strip. Despite the broken home - whose wasn't? - I grew up pretty okay.

I have lived in L.A., New York and Paris, and I currently live just outside Philadelphia.

I write a rock 'n' roll history/review blog called AM at https://10-am.blogspot.com/ that gets mor ...more

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What’s the best thing about being a writer?

R.J. Stowell The confidence instilled in a writer that boldly implies that what we write matters.

That's some stuck-up confidence there.…moreThe confidence instilled in a writer that boldly implies that what we write matters.

That's some stuck-up confidence there.(less)

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R.J. Stowell Don't stop.

I remember an episode of the Partridge Family in which Keith writes a symphony. His girlfriend's father is a classical music critic. When …moreDon't stop.

I remember an episode of the Partridge Family in which Keith writes a symphony. His girlfriend's father is a classical music critic. When Keith asks his opinion, the man asks Keith what he would do if he told him that the symphony wasn't any good.

Keith replies that he would quit writing symphonies.

The man responded by telling Keith that if that was the case, he was never meant to write symphonies.

Always keep in mind that Edison's lightbulb failed a thousand times before he had any glimmer of success. What if he had quit? Everything experienced before we succeed is practice.(less)

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RJ Stowell is the author of Jay and the Americans, a fictional memoir, Miles From Nowhere, and its