Alli Marshall

How to Talk to Rockstars is a novel about uncharted territories: specifically, the territory of a journalist's dream as she hones a career interviewing rock stars while nurturing a secret desire to become more involved in a world she carefully keeps at a professional distance.

Her wish comes true when she befriends a musician whose haunting lyrics take her to the brink of personal and professional disaster.

Jude's music offers messages that resonate with her: stories about playing it safe, taking risks, and doing more than filing reports and adhering to duty and routine. Beyond those boundaries lie excitement and "An unpredictable land of adrenaline and adventure. It's the shine of the city as glimpsed from the low-lit suburbs."

More than the city shines, here, in a compelling saga readers will find enlightening, engrossing, and revealing: a synthesis of loneliness and emotion with its source in unexpected life connections.… (mehr)