Deborah Grabien's Books
Sep.17.2012
When the Fog City Geezers sign a recording contract with Fluorescent Records, band founder JP Kinkaid makes an unusual decision: to record a live show as their first CD.
Climbing into a tour bus named Magic with the band and his wife, Bree, he's expecting no more than the usual glitches and problems that happen when any band hits the road. What he's not expecting is a sudden series...
Apr.16.2012
The conclusion of Blacklight’s exhausting Book of Days tour finds guitarist JP Kinkaid recuperating at home in San Francisco. As JP’s local band, the Fog City Geezers, plans gigs at Marin County’s 707 Club, the club is put up for sale. Blacklight, seeing an opportunity to preserve a classic venue, acquires the majority stake.
But the minority ownership comes with strings attached...
Sep.15.2011
The release of Blacklight's double CD, Book of Days, looks like business as usual. The relaxed tour showcases a revolutionary new set design, as well as Bombardiers keyboard ace Tony Mancuso along as a guest. No one can predict what happens next: the CD goes multi-platinum, generating the need for a very different kind of tour.
At first, everything seems fine. It takes a while...
Apr.21.2011
When JP Kinkaid is asked by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominating committee to suggest an inductee under the"Early Influences" category, he has no hesitation in naming his childhood idol, delta bluesman Farris"Bulldog" Moody. Bulldog, alive and living in the southern Ohio town of Ofagoula, meets with JP - and the two form a deep and immediate bond. With the...
Aug.15.2010
Newlywed superstar guitarist JP Kinkaid and his wife, Bree, head off to London for their honeymoon. The trip should be idyllic: take care of personal business in London, record a few songs, relax. Their honeymoon gets sidetracked when legendary director Sir Cedric Parmeley enters his 25-year-old rockumentary, "Playing in the Dark" into competition at the Cannes Film...
Mar.23.2010
After being abandoned in Golden Gate Park by owners who no longer want her, Dark must quickly learn how to take care of herself. Befriended by a racoon, Rattail, and Casablanca, another feral cat, Dark quickly learns her place in the park's hierarchy, and discovers who she can trust--the Warms (nice people who feed the ferals every day)--and who's to be avoided--the Cores (homeless...
Sep.15.2009
While My Guitar Gently Weeps opens with Blacklight guitarist JP Kinkaid at home in San Francisco, and engaged to his long-time lover, Bree Godwin. Blacklight's tour has been rough on JP; a heart attack in Boston and a significant ramp-up of his multiple sclerosis have left him more physically fragile than usual.
With the tour over, JP is relaxing by sitting in as second guitarist...
Jul.08.2008
One legendary band on a sold-out American tour. One sleazy biographer digging up old secrets and opening old wounds. One ageing guitarist, with a crippling illness and a twisted past. One woman who will do anything to keep her hold over him, and another who will do anything to protect him.
The last thing the members of Hall of Fame rock & roll band Blacklight need to hear is...
Dec.10.2007
In San Francisco, it's mid-October, darkness comes early, and a killer who strangles pregnant women is just claiming victim number six. Homicide chief Cassy Chant is running the manhunt for the serial killer the cops call Captain Nemo. The team, including Cassy's right-hand man Detective Inspector Jim Delgado, have been hunting Nemo for nearly ten weeks. Nemo's getting more brazen...
Nov.13.2007
It’s summer in England, and---with nothing urgent demanding their attention---Ringan and Penny are planning a quiet vacation alone together. Their plans change when Ringan’s niece, fourteen-year-old violin prodigy Becca, is dumped in their care while her parents deal with an emergency abroad.
Ringan has no idea what to do with a teenage relative. Penny points out that Becca is more...
Oct.01.2006
When Penny Wintercraft-Hawkes gets a call from her older brother Stephen, she's delighted to learn that he and his wife Tamsin have returned from Hong Kong, and are finally planning to build their dream house, a reproduction Elizabethan manor, on their London riverside property. Since Penny's longtime companion, traditional musician Ringan Laine, is an expert on period architecture...
Oct.01.2005
When Ringan Laine and his band, Broomfield Hill, are invited to the prestigious Callowen House festival, he accepts. There's one catch: Callowen is haunted, by a very famous ghost. And that ghost, Susanna Leight-Arnold, is the subject of one of England's most famous ballads. After two close encounters with ghosts, Ringan and Penny are relieved to know that no exorcism is required...
Dec.10.2003
Haunted by the ghosts of characters memorialized in their songs, a pair of lovers must uncover the truth behind the ghosts' deaths.
When Ringan Laine, British folk musician, becomes the owner of a restored eighteenth-century cottage, he discovers right away that the cottage and the ancient barn on Ringan's property are haunted.
Ringan and his longtime lover Penny, researching the...
Jan.04.1990
In a future not very far from now, poet Julia Reynard believes herself the only survivor of a global plague. Pregnant and isolated in the English countryside, she's soon to realise that there are others - but that most of them are children, too young to be affected by the disease. And she begins to understand that the radical change that has come to the world, beginning with the...
San Francisco's Golden Gate Park is a thousand acres of trees, open ground, lakes, waterfalls, and biking trails. During the day, the park is full of people. It's a popular destination, for locals and tourists alike.
But when the sun sets out over the Pacific, the park becomes a different place. A whole new world emerges, the night world that the thousands who pass through the Park...
About Deborah
Deborah Grabien is a cook, guitar player, cat rescuer, traveller, and all-around rocker chick. She also writes a little: she's the author of the Haunted Ballad series (St. Martins Minotaur), six standalone novels, and the Kinkaid Chronicles, the first of...
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Causes Deborah Grabien Supports
EMILY's List (early member), Amnesty International (member on two continents for thirty years), Animal Welfare causes (we rescue feral cats), NARAL and...