QUEENSBOROUGH ROCK ON SALE FOR THREE MORE DAYS
Queensborough Rock Only $1.99 through December 16! List price is $6.99, and it’s a bargain at that price!
ROCK & ROLL, NYC & THE SIXTIES: ALL FOR $1.99 THROUGH 12/16
Click here to visit the Amazon Kindle page for Queensborough Rock (After December 16, the novel will sell for its list price of $6.99 for an e-book.) Take a trip back in time to NYC in 1971. The Sixties haven’t ended and rock ‘n’ roll reigns. Jack Bernstein wants to manage top […]
THE GREAT ROCK ‘N’ ROLL NOVEL IS ONLY 99 CENTS ON 11/21-22
QUEENSBOROUGH ROCK is offered as an e book to my readers and friends for two days at only 99 cents. The regular list price is $6.99. The rock ‘n’ roll novel you’ve been waiting for. It’s 1971 and young Jack Bernstein is a struggling rock ’n’ roll manager in New York City. Instead of a fancy […]
AT LAST, THE GREAT ROCK ‘N ‘ROLL NOVEL
Wednesday, 21 September 2022 07:35 GMTعربي Stephen Shaiken Noted Author, Releases His New Book“Queensborough Rock” Date 9/17/2022 2:10:24 AM(MENAFN– GetNews) It’s 1971 and young Jack Bernstein is a struggling rock ‘n’ roll manager in New York City. Instead of a fancy office in Manhattan, a flashy car, and backstage passes, he operates out of […]
SOUND FINANCIAL ADVICE FROM THE FABULOUS FURRY FREAK BROTHERS
Courtesy of iconoccatlon.blog.com In these turbulent economic times, it is imperative to recall the words of wisdom from The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Gilbert Shelton’s comic book characters of the Sixties: “Dope (weed) will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope.” It’s better advice than anyone […]
BAGELNOSE GOES TO COLLEGE : A Short Story About Life In Queens
This short story was posted about a year ago. Several readers have told me how much they liked it, so I decided to repost it at the top of the blog. I really like the characters Max Flugel, aka The Weasel, and Kenny Pelko, aka Bagelnose. I used then in a […]
BACK TO THE FUTURE WITH KEYBANGERS BANGKOK
Keybangers Bangkok, March 27, 2022. Photo by Stephen Shaiken It’s been three years since I last met face-to face with Keybangers Bangkok, the writing group that has always nurtured and assisted me in countless ways. Some faces are familiar, others are new. Writers come from just about every corner of the globe: Romania, England , […]
NOW MORE THAN EVER, INSPIRATION FROM DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING
MLK Memorial, Washington, DC (Courtesy Tampa Bay Times). “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
“A Shot in the Ass”: My Just-Published Short Story
I wrote this short story a few years ago, when living in Bangkok, and presented it to my writing group, KEYBANGERS BANGKOK. As usual, their input proved invaluable. I reworked it and showed it to the Tampa Writers Alliance, who liked it and persuaded me that it really fell within the historical fiction genre. Up until […]
WHAT MAKES WRITING “HISTORICAL FICTION” ?
Left to right: Salida, Colorado, once a booming mining town; Tutankhamen Exhibit, Paris, France; Sign where the Berlin Wall stood. (Photos by author). I recently submitted a short story to my writing group. It was fairly well received, with some very constructive critiques, the kind that make a story even better. What surprised me was […]