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Rock N Roll and Bad Poetry

By Katey Hawthorne

Sometimes, you’ve just got to let yourself write bad poetry.

True story: I suck at poetry. But there’s something soothing in trying to arrange scattered thoughts and words into a manageable, recognizable configuration. Or maybe it’s just trying to pare down the brain dump to its bare bones form that’s so therapeutic. Either way, even though every single attempt I’ve made at poetry in the last three decades has been horrid, I occasionally still let myself play with it.

And that’s where Zane Woodward, the hero of BACK TO THE SKY, my latest “Elementals” book, gets it. Except Zane is a little more serious about his poetry, and it comes with a melody. I confess that once upon a time I tried my hand at setting my unfortunate poetry to music—I told myself the music was all right, even though I never played it for anyone, which is probably telling. Zane also plunks out his melodies on an Epiphone Les Paul—which was (and, okay, still is) my weapon of choice.

His raggedy bits of lyric are scattered through the book, getting better and better as he meets and inevitably falls for Geordie Finsen, the strange blue-haired, point-eared housesitter-next-door. Love is inspiring like that, both when it feels good and when it hurts like hell, right?

I won’t tell you if Zane’s lyrics are mine or not—I mean, you can guess, because they’re pretty terrible. But they mean a lot to him, and get him through a lot of trials. That’s what music’s there for, right? It certainly was in the early rock n roll Zane idolizes anyhow. Starting with his first and oldest hero, Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Here’s a very, very appropriate song to that effect, in fact:

https://youtu.be/SR2gR6SZC2M

Legendary! Far more legendary than anything Zane will ever come up with… but I like to think that says more about my limitations than his.

Bad Poetry and Rock N Roll—all part of the experience of growing up, right?

BACK TO THE SKY:

Blurb:

Rather than spend his first post-college summer on the beach with a hot boy and a margarita, Zane Woodward goes home. While the lectures aimed at getting him to be more respectable like his lawyer father aren’t appreciated, Zane wants to be near his sister and his best friend—both of whom he’s convinced need him. Enter Geordie Finsen: the Buddhist, blue-haired, stacked house-sitter-next-door. Geordie has a penchant for parties, older women who can pay the bills, and younger men who can wear him out—and he may or may not be able to control the weather.

While Geordie and his philosophies start to disentangle Zane from his own expectations and hang-ups, they bring the two closer and closer, and their chemistry flares into a hot and heavy summer romance. But Geordie has hang-ups of his own, including an aversion to getting too attached to anyone or anything. When things get a little too heavy between him and Zane, his instinct to cut loose and run free is tested, and Zane’s plans for a perfect escape of his own might never get off the ground.

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Katey Hawthorne is an avid reader and writer of superpowered romance, even though the only degree she holds is in the history of art. (Or, possibly, because the only degree she holds is in the history of art.) Originally from the Appalachian foothills of West Virginia, she currently lives in Ohio. In her spare time she enjoys comic books, B-movies, loud music, Epiphones, and Bushmills.

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