Enchanted

Things We Lost in the Night #1.2, #1.4, #1.6, #1.8

by Larry J. Dunlap

COMING IN SPRING OF 2018! In a magical engagement in Hawaii, Larry finds that danger lurks beneath the exotic beauty of the island of Oahu. A near death drowning experience and a dramatic night of love and romance immersed in island magic are burned into memory. He is compelled to confront sex traffickers, and he and his friends learn firsthand of the horrors of the Vietnam War he barely avoided. As the band seeks elusive fame in their recording career, success continues in the Flamingo and International, famous Las Vegas resort hotels. Larry’s chance at a forever-marriage with his new wife blooms with the birth of their young son. With a chance to record the theme of a new major movie, it seems nothing can stop Stark Naked and the Car Thieves’ delayed ascent to the top of the Billboard Charts. But, when disaster strikes, it is sudden and catastrophic. He is driven to the edge of sanity trying to save his dream marriage and his imploding band — before the music ends forever.

ENCHANTED WILL INCLUDE:
SONGS OF LOVE & WAR, ALMOST PERFECT, CHASING THE MUSE, and RIDING WITH ELVIS and conclude the Things We Lost in the Night Memoir.

440 pages, Paperback

Published June 1, 2016

About the author

Larry J. Dunlap is the author of the recently completed THINGS WE LOST IN THE NIGHT, A Memoir of Love and Music in the 60s with Stark Naked and the Car Thieves in two volumes: NIGHT PEOPLE: Book 1, followed by ENCHANTED: Book 2.

"Though I'd always wanted to be a creative writer from my youth, my writing career didn't begin until late in life as a pencil-for-hire, technical and training writer for Fortune 50 companies in the 1990s. In the 1970s, the years following my memoir project, I spent most of the decade working in Hollywood as a personal manager, publisher, and Sunset Boulevard recording studio owner/operator. While actually seeking a way out of the music business in the 1980s, I developed a love affair with early computer gaming that led me to co-found The Games Network, Inc., the first all-digital broadcasting cable network, followed by several years in video and film production and post-production.

My favorite project has been imagining a galactic empire as a backdrop for an online game system. In the mid-2000s, I designed what I considered to be an innovative gameplay and delivery system and gathered together a highly talented art and programming team to develop a breakthrough graphical multiplayer online strategy game called IMPERIAL WARS. Since I didn't have the resources initially to develop the game, it gave me a lot of time to work on a history of the empire and develop ideas and concepts for a trilogy based on a specific time in this history. For my latest project I have begun work on the first volume, working-name, IMPERIA, and roughing out the two following books. I've been a huge science-fiction fan since the golden age of sci-fi in the late 1950s and early 60s. It's hard not to be intimidated by the incredible authors in this genre between then and now but I'm excited by the challenge.

At various moments over the years, I have published short stories, been a rock music review columnist for a California lifestyle magazine, and authored and drawn a published music-based cartoon strip named Frets. I author fiction and creative non-fiction project from a wonderful little hideaway near the ocean in Southern California where I count my blessings and share my life with my wife Laurie and our pet Chilidog."

Find out more at http://larryjdunlap.com

Below I'd like to invite you to read the first seven chapters of the two books of Things We Lost in the Night, a fast-moving romance-filled ROMANCE-FILLED memoir of a young singer and his friends search for success in the 1960s music business of California and Las Vegas in an easy to read online format in the link below.


Here are the first seven chapters of NIGHT PEOPLE FREE at the link below:
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and here are the first seven chapters of ENCHANTED FREE at this link:
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Reviews

[BooksCoffee · Rating 5 out of 5]

In this electric, surprisingly moving memoir, Dunlap takes up where he left off in Things We Lost in the Night and recalls his final years as a member of Stark Naked and the Car Thieves band.

Dunlap talks about Elvis and Streisand’s glory days in Las Vegas; the raw beauty of Hawaii, the insecurities, fears, and hopes of his band and their struggle with finding their original voice. Along the way, come his own struggles, his fractured relationship with his wife, his heartache, and a growing sense of despair as the band’s hopes of attaining recording success shatter.

With its bracing honesty and captivating prose, the memoir also serves as an interesting study in the 1960s music business of California, Las Vegas, and Hawaii.

Dunlap is an informed narrator, and this exciting, passionate memoir will appeal to readers whether they’re fans of memoirs or not.

[Kristi Warren · Rating 4 out of 5]

All the questions that left the reader wanting more at the end of Night People are answered as the story of Stark Naked and the Car Thieves reveals the personal sacrifices paid to chase a dream. This must-read for music fans will not disappoint.