When I sold my first book – lo these many, many years ago...

When I sold my first book – lo these many, many years ago – I had, as every writer does, a number of hopes and dreams and secret fantasies.

Maybe it'll be a best seller!

Maybe it'll win a prize!

And maybe – just maybe – I'll get to sing backup with the Rock Bottom Remainders.

The Remainders are the world's most prominent, and only, all-author supergroup, who've been rocking out at bookseller conventions and concert halls since the early 1990's. The band stars Dave Barry, Mitch Albom, Stephen King...