Support this website! Go purchase Lords: Part One today! - By N.L. Belardes
The Lords of Bakersfield: that creepy Bakersfield urban myth that scares the bajeezus out of your next door neighbor needs to be talked about again in the form of my book: Lords: Part One. Why not? It’s good California literature from the Central Valley. Matildakay mentioned Lords: Part One was a hot potato in her blog today.
You know the neighbor who keeps talking in whispers about the underbelly of Bakersfield—the one who tells you they know someone who knows someone who was raped by a creepy evil man back in the day, or that their friend was murdered and they think it was a “hush hush don’t talk” execution style crime. You don’t know what to believe. So you read the local papers and they say: “Oh yeah, the rumor mill might be true.” And so you discover old N.L. Belardes wrote his own pesky version of the Lords of Bakersfield in the late 1970s, an urban counterculture tale darker and far more revealing than a recent moronic comment on this website.
Every once in a while I get comments from people who are shocked that I plug my own art on my own website. My own website… Do these people think I get paid to go out in the scene, snap photos and then write all the blog entries that I do? Dumb! And even if I did get paid, this is my own website. This is nlbelardes.com, not, iwriteaboutyouandignoremyselfasanartist.com.
I revel in a good ‘self plug’ when I get comments like those because it reminds me it’s time once again to let my good readers in on a secret: I am a novelist who also enters the world and reports on Bakersfield music, literature, sports, politics, theatre, fine art, and so on… and that I wrote a book that has stirred up some folks with a part two on the way…
You can get Lords: Part One at Russo's Books, Borders Books or online at noveltown.net
You know the neighbor who keeps talking in whispers about the underbelly of Bakersfield—the one who tells you they know someone who knows someone who was raped by a creepy evil man back in the day, or that their friend was murdered and they think it was a “hush hush don’t talk” execution style crime. You don’t know what to believe. So you read the local papers and they say: “Oh yeah, the rumor mill might be true.” And so you discover old N.L. Belardes wrote his own pesky version of the Lords of Bakersfield in the late 1970s, an urban counterculture tale darker and far more revealing than a recent moronic comment on this website.
Every once in a while I get comments from people who are shocked that I plug my own art on my own website. My own website… Do these people think I get paid to go out in the scene, snap photos and then write all the blog entries that I do? Dumb! And even if I did get paid, this is my own website. This is nlbelardes.com, not, iwriteaboutyouandignoremyselfasanartist.com.
I revel in a good ‘self plug’ when I get comments like those because it reminds me it’s time once again to let my good readers in on a secret: I am a novelist who also enters the world and reports on Bakersfield music, literature, sports, politics, theatre, fine art, and so on… and that I wrote a book that has stirred up some folks with a part two on the way…
You can get Lords: Part One at Russo's Books, Borders Books or online at noveltown.net
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Wednesday, April 12, 2006.
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good for you! Lords: Part One is great read... plug, plug, plug away! people doggin' you for self-promoting just don't know how to do it themselves - that's why they bitch!
smiles,
chingpea
OH BROTHER!
Shamelessly promote what is good, including your OWN stuff which rocks, NL. People, people, PEOPLE!
I think you need some Maui Waui...
Heee...
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