Looking for unsigned authors - Reveille Records - New venture

[Bill]

Hello guys,

I represent Reveille Records, a small independent record label specializing in punk, indie, and alternative music. Our main focus so far has been working with artists to get their music up for sale digitally and on vinyl. But we are currently looking into opening up a side-division of the label and open it up to authors. Our focus would be on digital publishing and very small print runs (at least at first).

We are now taking submissions for the project. Anyone can submit their story, we'll read it and if we like it pass it around to a few other people to get different perspectives and then move forward from there.

Since we are a "punk rock" music label we are trying to gear our books towards those types of readers. I am an avid reader myself and the problem I often run into with "punk rock" in literature is that it is often described with a lot of hyperbole. Our aim is to choose stories that include punk/indie/alt music in a very subtle and honest way. So, no cutting, giant mohawks, and obsessive drug use. Not to say that these do not occur in the culture, but not at all to the extent that writers/media make it out to be.

We have a very specific audience that we are trying to cater towards and because of that we have some guidelines as to what we are looking for:
- Must be complete/near complete
- Must be a novel (no short stories please)
- Must include above mentioned musical genres in some small way, but does NOT have to be about music at all. i.e. It can be a sic-fi novel with a protagonist with a "punk" mindset or a teen fiction novel that deals with issues that teens whom may be into these musical genres are into.

You can SUBMIT your stories to this address: contact [@] reveillerecords.com

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[John]

My novel Hezbollah is about three middle-aged women reflecting on their past with a punk band that performed in a tragedy-stricken concert tour in the mid-90's. The major female protagonist, Debbie Munson, is a hardcore legend being enticed by a local NYC band for one last club tour. Her concerns over her age are ridiculed by everyone who assures her that her looks and attitude are 'to die for' by punk chicks half her age. Debbie's confidence returns just as rumors surface about a reunion gig in Palestine where the ill-fated event occurred. Debbie and her friends are forced to ask themselves whether they can stay the course one more time. This novel is a tribute to the Blank Generation and an unforgettable look at the Grunge Era that ruled and reigned over the 90's rock scene.

[John]

Hezbollah is a coming-of-age novel tracing the lives of three women throughout three different stages of their lives as they and their closest friends contemplate a last-chance opportunity to recapture their faded fame and fortune. Tina Rivera, Isabel Carmona and Deborah Munson are the female protagonists whose past, present and future define the storyline of what might be hailed as a postmodernist classic.

R&B legend J.C. “Continental” Lincoln is dying of AIDS. He announces that he wants to stage a reunion performance at the Valley of Megiddo in the Middle East, the scene of the greatest underground concert of all time. In doing so, he is planning to sell the never-released video of the show for $100 million, with which he intends to finance the reunion show. News on the Internet goes viral, reaching the members of his opening act Hezbollah well after the fact. The grunge band members, twenty years older and scarred by life, are all in financial need but question whether they can draw from the fountain of youth one last time.

Part One focuses on Tina Rivera, the legendary percussionist who is secretly fighting a losing battle with muscular dystrophy. Zeke Cohen, her longtime lover, is as violently opposed to her participation in the project as he was to the concert two decades ago. She is torn between giving their relationship one last chance, and rejoining her friends for a last payday that all but she desperately needs. Most of her flashbacks focus on the early days as an iconic hardcore band before they were discovered by Lincoln after the breakup of the group. Her bittersweet memories fuel her undying loyalty as she defies the odds despite her terminal illness.

Part Two reflects on the life of Isabel Carmona, who with her future husband Johnny was the First Couple of the Hezbollah entourage. Married with an only child, she spent the last twenty years trying to reconcile her macho spouse with their homosexual son. His dreams of training a world boxing champion has left him disillusioned and bitter over two decades of failure. Their loyal friend, Roth Almontaser, is just as skeptical as Isabel of the band’s chances to return to the stage after so many years of inactivity and personal disappointments. Isabel’s flashbacks take the reader back to the Peace in the Middle East tour twenty years ago. It relives the storybook rise, the astounding triumph and the tragic ending that created their legend but marked the beginning of a descent into obscurity for most of them.

Part Three follows Debbie Munson as a budding NYC punk rock icon, Jerry Kevlar, offers the services of his band as her backup in a series of gigs to prepare her for her return to the concert stage. She realizes that she has become more than a muse to him as he is unable to hide his adoration of her. Her nihilistic spirit is rekindled by the impossible dream as she begins a campaign to beat all the odds in making the concert become a reality. Yet she resists Jerry as violently as the ravages of time as she epitomizes the anarchy and chaos that made Hezbollah the centrifugal force of the legendary concert.

This is an unforgettable tale of three different women facing unique conflicts though inextricably brought together by bonds of their past, common goals of the present and hope for their future. For rock fans, students of women’s issues and causes, and adventure lovers alike, Hezbollah is a novel not to be forgotten.