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# Jason Warburg

Music, Fiction, Dreams

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- [The Truth About Fiction](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/the-truth-about-fiction/) - Some say that people who write fiction are just really good liars—but fiction writers don’t lie; they just find new ways of telling the truth.
- [Can of Worms, Opened](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/can-worms-opened/) - One of the things that made me want to interview musicians in the first place (a story told in My Heart Sings the Harmony) is that I enjoy reading the resulting interviews so much. Ditto for author interviews, so it didn’t take much convincing for me to sit for an interview about Never Break the
- [Twelve Months, Cover to Cover](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/twelve-months-cover-cover/) - The year gone by was full of milestones small and large: gains and losses, advances and retreats, triumphs and struggles. It was a year worthy of a novel, though I didn’t write one during it. Instead, while hunting down lyric permissions for the completed novel-in-waiting (coming in 2015), I tinkered with three different ideas for
- [The Bookshelf Diaries (an occasional series): Fountain, Sedaris, Connelly, Caillat](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/the-bookshelf-diaries-an-occasional-series-fountain-sedaris-connelly-caillat/) - After a recent outing to Bookshop Santa Cruz, the stack of books at my bedside grew to resemble Jack’s beanstalk. There is only one solution to this problem: read, man, read.On our book-shopping adventure, I found myself gravitating to literary fiction, novels that have won both awards and the praise of the sort of critics
- [Embrace the Chaos](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/embrace-the-chaos/) - I am the sort of person who believes there is a correct way to load a dishwasher. (Back to front; don’t @ me with that “anywhere you want” anarchy.) I am also the sort of person who rebels against rules that I find arbitrarily restrictive. (The Oxford comma is great—except when you don’t need it.)
- [Let It Go (If You Can)](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/let-it-go-if-you-can/) - I’m a fan of the serenity prayer; in order to keep moving forward in this life, you have to learn to let things go. Which makes it embarrassing when I can’t.
- [It Starts With Love](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/it-starts-with-love/) - Think about someone you love. Imagine them standing right in front of you. Now think about why you love them. Is it their empathy? Their integrity? Their curiosity about the world? Maybe it’s the way they’ve been there for you when you needed them. Maybe it’s the way they always seem to know the right
- [End Matter Matters](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/end-matter-matters/) - “Liner notes junkie” is an appellation this writer wears like a badge of honor... whether a book is a novella or an epic, I always read the acknowledgements.
- [Stumbling Forward](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/stumbling-forward/) - The Adventures of Lucca & Tirah: Into the Great Wood is a 28-page full-color illustrated storybook for early readers (ages 6-9) by me and Angela Caldwell.
- [Kismet](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/kismet/) - So: Mom wrote children’s books; grief paid a visit; and I did what came naturally—I began to write. The next visitor to show up at my door was kismet.
- [Wrestling With an Ocean](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/wrestling-with-an-ocean/) - As I sat at my desk missing my departed companions, I did what had long since become a natural reflex when grief paid a visit. I began to write.
- [Story Time](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/story-time/) - Over the years, I thought about trying to write a children’s book. But besides not having a story in mind, I always felt like this was Mom’s arena, her turf.
- [Summer Thunder](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/summer-thunder/) - For more than 20 years I’ve wondered when the right moment might be to tell this story—and now that moment has arrived. It happened on a sweltering midsummer Saturday, the kind of triple-digit Sacramento Valley scorcher that transforms sandals from footwear into safety devices. At the children’s swim meet we were attending, every racer would
- [Imposter Syndrome](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/imposter-syndrome/) - The new Tim Green novel—title and publication date to be revealed any moment now—had two chief sources of inspiration. The first was a reader who wanted more of Bernie, Tim’s music-writer father. As discussed last time, thinking about what a Bernie story might look like led me down a logic trail to a conclusion that
- [The Book of Ruth](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/the-book-of-ruth/) - The minute the central story arc of Home Was a Dream came together in my mind, a fresh challenge immediately clamored for attention: how was I going to tell this particular story? The first two novels in the Tim Green series (Believe in Me and Never Break the Chain) are narrated almost entirely from Tim’s
- [Home Was a Dream](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/home-was-a-dream-2/) - Here are the words we’ve all been waiting for: Home Was a Dream is available now at the links below.
- [Cover Me Up](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/cover-me-up/) - Covers are challenging enough without making the job harder on yourself—which I certainly did with Home Was a Dream (coming April 9), by crafting a story that follows three distinct main characters along three distinct timelines. The third Tim Green novel finds Tim digging into his father’s past, only to uncover the shocking truth that
- [Tim Green Will Return (Again)](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/tim-green-will-return-again/) - Tim Green will return. Again. Readers of my newsletter and this space have known this was a possibility for some time, thanks to my barely contained enthusiasm about the new novel that’s been gathering momentum for the past two years. As of today, though, it’s official. And while it’s not time just yet to share
- [Deeper into the Forest](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/deeper-into-the-forest/) - Some writers do their best to avoid all feedback from readers. I get it; they want to write without letting the opinions and perspectives of others affect the trajectory of their work. Personally, though, I find reader feedback heartening. Whether it’s positive, negative, or some original blend, feedback from readers signals that the story in
- [Home](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/home-4/) - The title of the new Tim Green novel is a tale in itself. This particular tale begins with one of my favorite songwriters active today: Jason Isbell. The man is a master storyteller whose songs are populated by Faulkneresque characters full of self-doubt and dark corners, either trying to find their way toward the light,
- [Welcome Back My Friends (to the show that never ends)](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/hello-world-2/) - Welcome. When Wampus chief Mark Doyon offered this soapbox for me to talk about my forthcoming novel Believe in Me—and, more generally, in his words, “Music, Fiction, Dreams”—I couldn’t help but appreciate the irony. Because Believe in Me will be published in e-book form only, and my wife and I are still mourning the loss
- [Listen to the Music](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/listen-to-the-music/) - On average, I probably listen to a hundred songs a week. My novel Believe in Me might exist without music, but it would be a completely different story. In fact, check that. It wouldn’t exist without music; it couldn’t. The thing about popular music for me is that it serves so many different functions. Sometimes
- [Gone to the Movies*](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/gone-to-the-movies/) - One of the early readers of Believe in Me, commenting on a change I made several drafts ago, told me that the prologue I had added felt more like the opening of a movie than a book. This was clearly intended as constructive criticism, the implied solution being to “Make it more novel-ish.” Yeah, well,
- [Time](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/time/) - It’s time. We’ve talked about the book itself, about the music it’s infused with, about the research that went into it, and about a couple of movies that helped bring the story to life. And next time—later this week, in fact—I’m planning to talk about some of the authors whose work inspired and influenced my
- [The Voice](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/the-voice/) - It’s funny how the mind works. That’s especially true, I find, when you try to turn it on a dime from creative mode—open, flowing, unfocused, nearly devoid of intrusive consciousness—to analytical mode—hyper-conscious, capturing every bit of external data, putting it under a microscope and trying to see it from all angles at once. A couple
- [Faith](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/faith/) - When I started writing the story that became Believe in Me (Wampus Multimedia, Nov. 29), it never occurred to me that faith would play a role in the narrative. When I started writing this blog, it never occurred to me that faith would be a topic for one of my posts. The fact that I
- [Thank You*](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/thank-you/) - Believe in Me (Wampus Multimedia, Nov. 29) begins one sunny July morning and ends during the first week of that same November. Which means Thanksgiving does not happen in the book. Now, when I sat down to write this post – the title having felt inevitable considering the timing – I initially thought I might
- [With a Little Help from My Friends](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/with-a-little-help-from-my-friends/) - As we gear up for launch day tomorrow, our friends at Riff Raf are lending a hand. Fellow musicologist and Riff Raf chief Richard Fulco recently invited me over to talk about the music that both inspired and inhabits Believe in Me. Hope you’ll stop in and check it out. This also seemed like a
- [Don’t Give Up](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/dont-give-up/) - I wrote my first real story when I was 16. After seven months of junior-year high school literature study, the assignment from my English teacher – Mark James, a wise-cracking Englishman who was also a fine actor -- was a short story of five to 10 pages. I wrote 31. The story exploded onto the
- [Drive](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/drive/) - Where do stories come from? That, it seems to me, is the question behind the oldest question in the history of fiction: where do you get your ideas? The emphatic eye-roll the latter question generally receives from authors is because it’s impossible to answer. You might as well ask why the wind blows. (If you’re
- [More Than Simple Cash Can Buy](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/more-than-simple-cash-can-buy/) - Pete Frame got me thinking last week. Not that I would expect everyone to find inspiration in the work of a guy who charts out impossibly complex and detailed family trees of rock bands both famous and obscure—but for a liner-notes fanatic like me, his work is thoroughly absorbing and brilliant in a borderline savant
- [Down by the Schoolyard](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/down-by-the-schoolyard/) - So, spending half an hour the other day wallowing in the latest Interweb meme—Tuesday’s catastrophic PR meltdown by a one-man firm called Ocean Marketing, begun on Penny Arcade, mainstreamed by MSNBC, and covered in depth by International Business Times and The Escapist—got me thinking about (a) why this happened and (b) why this is exactly
- [Born to Run?](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/born-to-run/) - So, the other day when I sat down to write a blog post, all that came out was a rant about the SOPA debate*. That’s really not what this forum is for, so—let’s try again, shall we? The other thing that’s been taking up mental space for me just lately is imagining (hoping, dreaming) what
- [Come Talk To Me](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/come-talk-to-me/) - Two quick things this February morning: -- First, Wampus just published a nice Q&A with yours truly, exploring some of the ins, outs, and miscellaneous travails of the working writer. It was fun to dig into the meat of the creative process instead of the more prosaic questions that interviewers sometimes ask (“Where do you
- [Voyager*](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/voyager/) - One of the strange things about writing fiction is, you can accomplish a lot without actually writing anything. In my “spare time,” I wrote 3000 words this week, without ever opening the file for the novel I'm currently working on, and yet I’m quite sure I made good progress on it. The first piece was
- [Connection](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/connection/) - Last Friday morning, I tweeted “Headed to the Ronnie Montrose tribute show in SF tonight. The memories will be swirling around all night long (Hagar pun intended).” They were, as one world-class player after another hit the stage to play the music of my youth, the music made famous by a man who late in
- [Making Movies](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/making-movies/) - Maybe it’s the pace of life. Maybe it’s the overwhelming volume of choices we face every single day. Maybe it’s the near-death experience that our nation’s middle class has been going through over the past decade. Whatever the roots of the situation, it seems that when it comes to our stories—books, movies and the like—America
- [Master of Time](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/master-of-time/) - A great novel is like the best acid trip in the history of the world. It lifts you out of your reality and places you in another one, with a new identity, a new environment, new perspectives. It wakes you up to possibilities you hadn’t considered and drops you in the middle of experiences you’ve
- [The Power of Story](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/power-story/) - There’s something you should really know before getting in a car with me: if classic rock is playing, you’d best prepare yourself for an unsolicited history lesson at some point on the ride. My wife Karen has long since learned to tolerate this obsessive-compulsive need to share musical trivia of all kinds, having been paired
- [Fate, Grace, Karma](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/fate-grace-karma/) - In Believe in Me, Tim Green ruminates on fate more than once as he explores his own belief system. “I’m nobody’s chess piece,” he declares, before turning around a few dozen pages later to admit that “saying that everything that had happened was simply a random string of events felt like the most irrational argument
- [Of Being and Becoming](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/of-being-and-becoming/) - Wampus Multimedia publisher Mark Doyon once described my first novel Believe in Me as “a tale of being and becoming,” a phrase of such piercing power and insight that it still rattles around my brainpan on the regular a dozen years later. I didn’t recognize that’s what that story was about until Mark helped me to see it. The thing about “being and becoming”—that process of progressing from your old self toward a newer and possibly (hopefully) improved version—is that, with luck, you never stop doing it. Humans are meant to evolve and become several versions of ourselves between the starting line and the finish. For a goal-oriented person (ahem), this can be hard to accept. “Hey, I completed that goal! That means I’ve achieved what I set out to achieve! Everything is great now and all the problems have been solved!” Which is of course utter, fantastical bullshit. You’ve solved one problem: the problem of finishing the thing you started. Everything else? Still there. It isn’t even that one cycle of change has finished and another has begun; it’s all one big, continuous cycle that never finishes, until you do. This appears to be a lesson that I am destined to learn over and over again, which suggests either a learning disability, a penchant for self-deception, or a cavernous stubborn streak; let’s just say that I’m pretty sure it’s not the first one.
- [I Need to Know Who the Drummer Is](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/need-know-drummer/) - One of my regular music publicist correspondents sent me an electronic one-sheet recently that caught my interest, so, as I always do, I requested a physical copy of the album he was pitching. I don’t review downloads or streams because that’s a one-dimensional experience, pure sound with no context. A physical release provides artwork and
- [“I Want To Write About Music”](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/1010write_about_music/) - The thing about turning points is that they’re often hard to recognize in the moment. One minute you’re just stumbling along like usual, trying to keep the ball moving forward, the next you find that you’ve turned down a path whose end you cannot see. In March 1996, the editor of a new local start-up
- [Saving Point Reyes](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/saving-point-reyes-2/) - Every book has its own unique point of origin, that Big Bang moment when it first miraculously springs from nothingness into its author’s mind. You just never know when it’s going to happen, which helps to explain why this part of the process is both joyous and exasperating. What’s also true if you’re a writer
- [A Month in Italy (Note by Note)](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/a-month-in-italy-note-by-note/) - Karen and I try to take a substantial trip every year these days, the occasional global pandemic aside. Travel is a privilege that we've made a priority for the past decade (our “new” car right now is a 2006 Honda Civic) and we recently returned from our longest trip yet, 31 days in Italy. Let’s
- [Every Chapter is a Song](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/every-chapter-is-a-song/) - Stories with music woven into their fabric have carried many different labels over the years; my personal favorite is “musical fiction.” Still, it can be a struggle to describe stories like Believe in Me and Never Break the Chain in a way that truly captures how central music is to the lives of their characters.
- [The Great Battle](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/the-great-battle/) - “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.” This quote, often attributed to Philo of Alexandria, serves as the epigraph fronting my novel Never Break the Chain. It was a good fit for that story, in which every major character is up against a seismic challenge of one kind or another, but
- [Reunited States](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/reunited-states/) - Two years of isolation, disconnection, and toxic political divisiveness are enough to make anyone feel alienated—and enough to make the prospect of something as simple as a high school reunion feel like tap-dancing through a minefield. Going into my two-years-delayed 40th high school reunion a couple of weeks back I was anxious about two things:
- [The Comet and the Colt](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/the-comet-and-the-colt/) - We all need that one mentor, that one transformative figure in our lives who believes in us more than we have yet learned to believe in ourselves, who both pushes and pulls us closer to our potential.
- [What Matters Most](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/what-matters-most/) - The Korean-language edition of my mother's 1960 debut The Thinking Book was what finally did me in. I sat on the floor with various foreign versions of her books heaped all around me and stared at it for a count of five, then looked up at Karen and announced “I need a break.” Like so
- [Bonus Time](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/bonus-time/) - Tirah the tabby, the last cat standing from the trio we enjoyed for 15 years, was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in August 2020. At the time, the doctors gave her six to 12 months. Sixteen months later, I just fed her breakfast to quiet her demands. With her two contemporaries gone before her, one at
- [‘The Remembering’ is Here](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/the-remembering-is-here/) - The Remembering: Reflections on Love, Art, Faith, Heroes, Grief and Baseball—on sale now—grew out of a conversation that began right here. So the first thing to say again today, is thanks. As regular readers know, that conversation about relationships and values and grief and art, and the feedback loop it created, started me down a
- [The Book I Was Meant to Write](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/the-book-i-was-meant-to-write/) - “This isn’t the book I meant to write… but apparently it’s the book I was meant to write.” That was the one fresh line I had solidly in mind when I sat down over the summer to rewrite the introduction to The Remembering: Reflections on Love, Art, Faith, Heroes, Grief and Baseball (coming Dec. 6).
- [Hybrid Vigor and Other Matters](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/hybrid-vigor-and-other-matters/) - My mother used the term “hybrid vigor” more than once over the years in a context that would be considered cringeworthy today. That said, her intentions were good, and her point was scientifically valid—combining two things with different characteristics can produce powerful and sometimes unexpected results. It’s a thought that came back to me again
- [You Did This (Thanks)](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/you-did-this/) - Seriously: you did this. And I’m so glad you did. You did it by making it clear that I haven’t in fact been shouting into the hurricane for the past four years, that the essays published in this space over that period of time were reaching and resonating with an audience of faithful readers. Beginning
- [The Most Important Work](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/the-most-important-work/) - Two years ago, the Monday after a job I had loved for more than a decade disappeared on me, I posted a photo of Karen and me at home with our grandchildren Nathan and Emma. The caption read: “First day at new temp job. Seem to be getting along okay with co-workers.” A former colleague
- [The Remembering](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/the-remembering/) - I don’t remember when it was that I began to spend so much time remembering. This is in part because memory is cumulative and I’ve somehow managed to accumulate—no, that can’t possibly be right—58 years’ worth of experiences, moments and sensory impressions, all neatly logged and stored away in the old hippocampus*. That’s a lot
- [Absent Friends](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/absent-friends/) - It might be the most 2020 sentiment of all: I miss my friend. Lucca always felt like an old soul, even when his body was young. Maybe it was the eyes, big yellow saucers on his remarkably expressive face. As a fluffy black kitten he chewed everything in sight and raced around on paws so
- [Find Your Way Back](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/find-your-way-back/) - The black and white image has an iconic quality to it. The father leans in, embracing his adult son with both arms, turning slightly away from the camera to plant a kiss on his son’s cheek. The son looks directly into the camera, weary eyes full of vulnerability, as a hint of a smile touches
- [Choose Your Future](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/choose-your-future/) - “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”-- E.L. Hartley One particular moment from the past has replayed in my mind over and over in recent months. Thirty years ago, I was a junior staffer for California Lieutenant Governor Leo T. McCarthy. The former Speaker of the Assembly was a throwback even
- [Everything Is Heavier Right Now](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/everything-is-heavier-right-now/) - The hardest part of the moment we’re living through isn’t the wait—it’s the weight. What a short time ago were the simplest everyday decisions now feel heavy with risk. Do I go into that store? Do I walk on that popular path? Do I visit with others who may calculate risk differently than I do?
- [What I’ve Learned (So Far)](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/what-ive-learned-so-far/) - Many years ago Esquire magazine launched a series called What I’ve Learned, featuring famous people reflecting on their experiences and the lessons gained from them. In my previous job, we used that same story frame for alumni profiles in our school’s biannual magazine. I never imagined turning the tables on myself, but here we are,
- [A Different Time](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/a-different-time/) - Last weekend—March 7th and 8th, 2020, just a week ago—suddenly feels like a different time. On Saturday our son brought our grandson and granddaughter over so he could take a long bike ride, and we fed them lunch and played with them until our daughter-in-law came by to bring them home. On Sunday we did
- [Move Me](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/move-me/) - As readers of My Heart Sings the Harmony know, I really only have one set-in-stone requirement for any music that I’m going to choose to make part of my life: move me. Make me feel something. The reason this came to mind this week is a concert that I went to the other night, that
- [A Hanukkah Story](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/a-hanukkah-story/) - We’ve talked about karma before. I tend to be a pretty grounded person from day to day, but as I’ve written elsewhere, I also find that sometimes the only reasonable thing to do is to give in to wonder. And so it was last night. My father was Jewish. But I was raised by my
- [A Series of Moments](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/a-series-of-moments/) - Life is a series of moments. The moment you took your first step. The moment you fell and split your chin open. The moment you landed a job that filled you with purpose and confidence. The moment you had to say goodbye to someone you loved. That defining moment when you pushed yourself to do
- [Legacy](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/legacy/) - “We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us, and make us kinder. You always have the choice.” – the Dalai Lama My father passed away yesterday, slipping free of his body in the early evening of a day
- [The Box](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/the-box-2/) - The box has sat on the bottom shelf of one of four tall bookshelves in my office at work for almost exactly 10 years now. It’s a standard-issue banker’s box, white with black lettering and holes at either end for handles, a bit worn in places, nothing remarkable about it other than its simple presence
- [Ohana](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/ohana-2/) - In the Hawaiian tradition, ohana is a word that straddles and blurs the line between family and community. Your ohana is your intentional family, the people gathered around you who love and support you, whether connected by blood or chosen bonds of trust and affection. Last week on the side of a mountain on Hawaii’s
- [Names and Places](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/names-and-places/) - In my fiction writing I typically invest almost as many hours choosing the names of people and places as I do writing about them. These details matter; I’ve always felt that in fiction, names should carry layers of resonance that reflect, reinforce, contradict, or otherwise illuminate aspects of the person or place. This only added
- [A Cosmic Equation](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/a-cosmic-equation/) - It’s a sensation that never quite leaves you, this feeling that you owe your very existence to someone you will never meet. My older brothers were born in 1950, 1952, and 1954; I trailed the pack by a full eight years, arriving in 1962. People often smile when they hear that sequence, jumping to the
- [Beautiful Soul](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/beautiful-soul/) - “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” - Mark Twain “Maggie is a ray of sunshine.” Margarita (“Call me Maggie”)
- [The Right Question](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/the-right-question/) - Five months into grieving the loss of my mother, it’s become clear I’ve been asking myself the wrong question about the process. The question I’ve been asking is “When will it stop hurting?” The answer, I see now, is never. Losing Mom, not being able to talk with her or send her a picture or
- [Nothing Has Changed (But I Know It Has)](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/nothing-has-changed-but-i-know-it-has/) - How can I put into words What my heart feels? It's the deepest thing When somebody you love dies – Ian Hunter, “Michael Picasso” Sometimes I think the hardest part of death is just grasping the simple reality of it. One minute a person who fills a space in your heart is here, and the
- [Earthquakes](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/earthquakes/) - Growing up in California, you get used to earthquakes. They’re impossible to predict, but you always know another one will come eventually. All you can do is prepare as best you can and then try to ride it out, both the initial jolt, and the inevitable aftershocks. My mother is the reason I am a
- [Tom Petty: Making Magic](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/tom-petty-making-magic/) - It’s a mark of respect, this business of obsessively listening to our musical idols’ songs in the days after they pass, but also a ritual of mourning. We listen to remember—mourning the artist through their creations—but also to remind ourselves of the inescapable march of time—mourning not just the loss of the artist’s voice, but
- [Never Break the Chain](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/never-break-chain-2/) - Writing a book is a journey culminating in a moment not unlike a key one in this very story: the author hands his or her baby off to the reader, saying "Here. This is yours now." Today we arrive at that moment: the publication of Never Break the Chain, the sequel to Believe in Me.
- [Drawing Winners, Jacket Quotes & You](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/drawing-winners-jacket-quotes/) - Thanks to all who entered our drawing for one of three copies of the new Tim Green novel Never Break the Chain. The winners are: Melissa Arian Kristine Waldenburg and an unidentified third winner who hasn't replied to my email yet... (hint hint) As we rush headlong toward Publication Day next Tuesday, September 5, here’s
- [Outside Looking In](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/outside-looking-in-2/) - Never Break the Chain once again finds Tim Green on the outside looking in. In Believe in Me, Tim has just lost his father, and longs to find a way into the road family he discovers on tour with Jordan Lee and his band Stormseye. In Never Break the Chain, Tim resolves to track down
- [The Wrapping on the Package](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/the-wrapping-on-the-package/) - The cover of the book is like the wrapping on the package—except it’s permanent. It needs to convey something essential about the story within—mood or themes or a moment or all of the above—without giving anything big away. Most of all, it should spike curiosity. Why this cover? What’s the significance of this image and
- [What's in a Name?](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/whats-in-a-name/) - Last time around we unveiled the basic outline of the new Tim Green story coming this September. This time we ask, with apologies to Mr. Shakespeare and his roses, “What’s in a name?” A lot, actually. Of the many aspects of writing with the potential to frustrate, naming things—characters, places, the books themselves—is the one
- [Tim Green Will Return: The Sequel](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/tim-green-will-return-september/) - Four and a half years ago I published a post titled “Tim Green Will Return,” and hints have been dropping ever since about a sequel to Believe in Me. While it took substantially longer than I'd imagined for that prophecy to come true—my fortune-telling skills never have been the greatest—the good news is, it's about
- [Mud Season](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/mud-season/) - When I started my current job nearly a decade ago (wait… what?), the school I work for in Central California had just become affiliated with a larger school back in northern New England. As soon as I arrived on the job that January there was immediately talk of me traveling to the “mothership” back East
- [Favorite Reads of 2016](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/favorite-reads-2016/) - As the stack of books-to-be-read grows tall once again, swollen by holiday gifting, it’s time to look back and remember some of my favorite reads of 2016… We begin with a caveat. Yes, confirmation bias probably played a part in my assessment of Bruce Springsteen’s Born To Run; how could it not? But this self-penned
- [Revenge of NaNoWriMo](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/revenge-of-nanowrimo/) - “National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to creative writing,” declares the NaNoWriMo website—a backhanded, tongue-in-cheek acknowledgement that you have to be a little bit nuts to try to write a 50,000-word novel in 30 days. For one thing, creativity isn’t something you can force. With apologies to Yoda, it’s one of the
- [Shut Up and Sing](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/shut-up-and-sing-2/) - After 20-plus years of writing about music, there’s one aspect of the scene that continues to utterly baffle me, particularly right about now, late in an election cycle. You see it over and over again on social media: an artist comments on a current political topic and/or candidate, and some portion of his or her
- [The Hug](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/the-hug/) - [We've already talked about why, for a creative person, travel equals fuel. This post and the previous one offer hard evidence, drawn from a recent trip to central Europe.] It was just a hug—a simple gesture of warmth and appreciation between two people who had met only a day before, and might never again. It
- [John Lennon and the Velvet Revolution](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/john-lennon-velvet-revolution/) - [We've already talked about why, for a creative person, travel equals fuel. The next couple of posts offer hard evidence of this, drawn from a recent trip to central Europe.] When John Lennon was killed on December 8, 1980, Czechoslovakia was still tightly in the grasp of the Soviet empire that had crushed a brief
- [The Map](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/the-map/) - One of the interesting parts of the post-release stage of publishing a book is figuring out all over again how to talk about it. Not in press releases or web text or newsletters or e-mails—by the time the book comes out, that’s all long since been drafted. But that’s all written work; once you’re standing
- [My Heart Sings the Harmony](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/heart-sings-harmony/) - Twenty years in the making, and now it’s here. My Heart Sings the Harmony: Twenty Years of Writing About Music collects more than 100 album reviews, artist interviews, and essays, most of them first published on independent music review site The Daily Vault. The pages of My Heart Sings the Harmony are populated by artists
- [Winner Winner Chicken Dinner](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/winner-winner-chicken-dinner/) - ...and the three winners of our drawing for a signed copy of My Heart Sings The Harmony: Twenty Years of Writing About Music are: Pete Mancini Jo-Ann Pendolino Aubree Summers Congratulations to each of you and thanks to all of our newsletter subscribers! As we edge closer to Publication Day (that would be next Monday,
- [A Peek Inside](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/a-peek-inside/) - Last time we unveiled the cover to My Heart Sings the Harmony: Twenty Years of Writing About Music; this time we’re offering a peek inside. Beyond the framing introduction and conclusion, My Heart Sings the Harmony is made up of nine chapters. Chapters 2-8 feature around a dozen reviews each, broken down by both theme
- [Cover Me*](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/cover-me/) - *Bad puns were promised, and we aim to deliver. Which means there’s really no good reason not to title the blog post in which we reveal the cover of the new book after a disco song written by Bruce Springsteen. (No, seriously, he wrote “Cover Me” for Donna Summer, before his manager convinced him it
- [Cast of Characters](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/cast-of-characters/) - Every written work—whether fiction or non-fiction—has a cast of characters. They are the beings whose world you explore through the narrative, whose stumbles and triumphs and detours and exploits the author attempts to bring to life before your mind’s eye. The difference with non-fiction is that your cast of characters is real. They exist beyond
- [The Best Things in Life are Free](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/the-best-things-in-life-are-free/) - If it’s true that the best things in life are free—and you’ll find no argument here—then what could possibly top a free book? Oh fine, there might be a few things. But a free book is still nice. The book that I’m focused on just now—My Heart Sings the Harmony: Twenty Years of Writing About
- [A Love Letter to Rock and Roll](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/a-love-letter-to-rock-and-roll/) - What does music mean to you? Is it entertainment? Background noise? Or a consuming passion and constant presence in your life for as long as you can remember? For me, the answer has never been in doubt. Collecting more than 100 album reviews, artist interviews, and essays, My Heart Sings the Harmony is my love
- [The Soundtrack to Everything](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/the-soundtrack-to-everything/) - When I sent the initial draft of Believe in Me out to a handful of early readers, I enclosed a CD containing the novel’s soundtrack, a set of 20 songs that complement the action and are referenced in the text. This was, I can assure you, perfectly normal behavior—at least, for someone who listens to
- [I Am Not A Critic](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/i-am-not-a-critic/) - Of all the conversations I’ve had in recent weeks around the book I’ll be publishing early next year – My Heart Sings the Harmony: Twenty Years of Writing About Music – the single most challenging and revealing one has been about my visceral reaction to a label that many of my peers either quietly accept
- [Sequel](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/sequel/) - Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. - John Lennon, “Beautiful Boy,” 1980. For quite a while now I’ve been certain that the next book I published would be a sequel to my debut novel Believe in Me. I just didn’t think it would be this sequel. It seems the
- [Travel = Fuel](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/travel-fuel/) - It’s possible to write quality fiction without ever leaving your home turf—many notable authors have spent a chunk of their career writing about a single, specific region—but that doesn’t change the reality that, for a fiction writer, travel equals fuel. Whether you’re flying across the world or, as we recently did, taking a two-week road
- [Leave a Mark](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/leave-a-mark-2/) - Write what you know, they say. And that’s all well and good—my own personal history definitely helped me bring the musical and political elements of Believe in Me to life. But if you aspire to do more than just render interesting tidbits of fact in fictional form, you need to do more than just write
- [The Bookshelf Diaries (An Occasional Series): Peter Heller, Tom Rachman, Michael Connelly](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/the-bookshelf-diaries-an-occasional-series-peter-heller-tom-rachman-michael-connelly/) - Sometimes I go backward, sometimes forward. A nudge from Amazon a while back led me to investigate Peter Heller’s engrossing novel The Painter. Heller writes literary fiction, in the sense that his narratives are layered and philosophical and crafted with admirable elegance, but it’s literary fiction with a plot. The Painter is a story about
- [Herding Cats](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/herding-cats/) - Inspiration is something you can’t force or predict; it comes when it comes. Given the frequent presence in my writing space of my own feline menagerie (population: 3), I can’t help but fall back on the phrase “it’s like herding cats.” Trying to corral your own creativity is exactly that futile. Inspiration will arrive when
- [Quiet Hours](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/quiet-hours-2/) - The thing about the quiet hours that spin out, sometimes feeling endless, between published work is that it only looks from the outside like nothing is happening. Even in the quietest (or busiest-doing-other-things) moments, the engine continues to churn somewhere deep inside. The imagination is never idle, whether it’s busy at a given time working
- [Parenthood: An Appreciation](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/parenthood-appreciation/) - On my way home from work last Thursday, the night the Parenthood series finale was broadcast, I noticed a bumper sticker on the slightly banged-up Toyota in front of me: “Life isn’t about avoiding the storms; it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” Every person’s life is both a comedy and a tragedy. Wonderful,
- [Why Authors Celebrate on Publication Day](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/authors-celebrate-publication-day/) - Authors celebrate on publication day for so many different reasons. It’s the culmination of a journey. It’s watching your child step out into the world and find their way. It’s the satisfaction, hopefully, of a job well done, which can be its own reward. But for authors like me—and I know I’m far from alone
- [Travis Ishikawa: The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/travis-ishikawa-stuff-dreams-made/) - [Posted on my Facebook page last night. These are the moments every baseball fan dreams of.] The beauty of baseball is the drama and stories that the game's ebbs and flows allow to unfold. Yes, the walk-off pennant-winning home run in front of a delirious home crowd is awesome. But when you understand that the
- [The Bookshelf Diaries (An Occasional Series): Rob Yardumian, Kate Atkinson, Don Felder](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/bookshelf-diaries-occasional-series-rob-yardumian-kate-atkinson-don-felder/) - In recent years my reading list has been around 50 percent favorite series (see: Robert Crais, Michael Connelly, Ace Atkins, Lee Child), 25 percent rock and roll (biographies or rock-related fiction) and 25 percent randomly discovered novels selected for craft and reputation more than subject matter. Next time around I may focus on the former—as
- [Piecing the Puzzle](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/piecing-puzzle/) - I bought my wife a jigsaw puzzle for her birthday, and have been paying for it ever since (metaphorically, that is; I think it cost $14.99). It’s one we had glanced at together earlier in the year, a spectacularly vibrant image of fall colors, looking across a pond at a stand of birches and oaks
- [Heroes](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/heroes/) - So, this is awkward. Some part of me has always known this day would come, of course, but until now I’ve been reluctant to share the truth with more than a handful of people. Now I realize that I really should be honest with you about this part of my life. You see… I read
- [Of Loss, and Moving on: Thoughts on The West Wing](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/loss-moving-thoughts-west-wing/) - Most of the great stories ever told involve, on some level, dealing with loss. Hell, most of the pretty good ones, too. It’s an essential part of the human experience: how does loss change you? Is it possible to replace what’s gone? How do you learn to move on? That familiar cycle of loss and
- [Sparks](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/sparks-2/) - I can’t begin to speculate on when or where the first book-signing in history was held, but I’d bet the house that someone in the audience asked—maybe in Latin or Aramaic—some variation of this question, the oldest in the fiction game: where do you get your ideas? It’s an honest question, usually asked by someone
- [The Bookshelf Diaries (An Occasional Series): Carole King, Scott Turow, Greg Kihn](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/bookshelf-diaries-occasional-series-carole-king-scott-turow-greg-kihn/) - “Will You Love Me Tomorrow?” “Chains.” “The Loco-Motion.” “I’m into Something Good.” “Crying In the Rain.” “I Feel the Earth Move.” And of course: “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman.” These are just a few of the hits that have secured a special place for singer-songwriter Carole King in the fabric of 20th
- [Synchronicity](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/synchronicity/) - It began, as it often does, on a walk. Walks just before lunch have become a part of my weekday routine recently, offering not just a touch of exercise, but a chance to clear my head and maybe listen to a little music. Lunchtime is also a time when I often try to sneak in
- [The Bookshelf Diaries (An Occasional Series): Rachman, King, Hill](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/bookshelf-diaries-occasional-series-rachman-king-hill/) - This one didn’t come easy, in part because it doesn’t hew to our normal format of four discrete book reviews. Instead it only covers three, and two of them are closely related—not in style or subject matter, but, well, you’ll see. I’ve often admired the discipline of short story writing, despite the fact that, dating
- [Dancing About Architecture](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/dancing-about-architecture/) - “Writing about music,” Elvis Costello once famously said, "is like dancing about architecture.” His point being, don’t review my work, because you’re wasting your time, and by the way, you look stupid doing it. Love you too, Declan. An interesting discussion popped up the other day on Facebook about music writing, which is, after all,
- [The Person Who Gets It](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/the-person-who-gets-it/) - My friend Mark Doyon of Wampus Multimedia wears many hats: writer, publisher, producer, singer-songwriter, record label head, marketing communications guru. Lately I’ve taken to adding my own particular descriptor to what it is that he does for fellow artists: he’s a creative coach. In my case—and it’s probably different with every one of his clients,
- [Tribe](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/tribe/) - Humans are tribal by nature. Our first tribe is our immediate family; from there, our tribes spread out in overlapping circles of connection and mutual interest: extended family, friendship, community, work, hobbies, music. A band is a tribe; so are their fans. So is a baseball team—or as it is sometimes more aptly called, a
- [Writers and Baseball: A Love Affair](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/writers-and-baseball-a-love-affair/) - “You think you know, but you just don’t know… How about this trip around the bases for this guy? A lifetime minor-leaguer, and he gets a walk-off, in front of this sell-out crowd, in one of the best rivalries in sports.” -- San Francisco Giants broadcaster Duane Kuiper, 5/4/13 Almost every writer I know loves
- [Of Book Signing and Bungee-Jumping](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/of-book-signing-and-bungee-jumping/) - The other day I was telling a friend about the book signing that I’ve just agreed to do—details follow below—and expressing my discomfort with the prospect. At which she said, “Look, you’re not someone who runs around drawing attention to themselves, so you should just be yourself and enjoy it.” Good advice, which I’m now
- [Love Song for a Locomotive](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/love-song-for-a-locomotive/) - Given that I’ve been writing about music for much of my adult life, I’ve had plenty of opportunities to consider the parallels between the two disciplines. And as writing fiction has evolved for me from fantasy into reality—incorporating some of my musical obsessions along the way—I’ve come to appreciate those parallels more deeply. All of
- [Devil’s in the Details](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/devils-in-the-details/) - They say the devil’s in the details—and I might tend to agree, in most contexts. In the context of writing fiction, though, for me the details are almost always more fun than work. They also take some of the sting out of one of more tedious parts of the process: rewrites. The part where I
- [The Bookshelf Diaries (an occasional series): Macan, Walker, Townshend, Chabon](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/the-bookshelf-diaries-an-ongoing-series-macan-walker-townshend-chabon/) - “If you want to write, the first thing you need to do is read.” In the current lull before the next big push on the new book (which is fated to have a labor lasting many months), here's what I’ve been reading lately. Rocking The Classics: English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture by Edward Macan
- [Tim Green Will Return](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/new-year-new-story-to-tell/) - Well, we made it: welcome to 2013. New Year’s Day is the perfect time to talk about the future with one eye on the past, and that’s definitely the agenda for today. First up is a minor housekeeping item. Every post I’ve made on this blog from the very beginning has featured as its title
- [Secret World](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/secret-world/) - The more Michael Chabon I read, the more I’d like invite him to lunch sometime. That semi-delusional sentence is not in fact as absurd as it might seem at on first read; I only live 90 minutes from my Pulitzer Prize-winning imaginary friend Michael, and we do have a fair bit in common. Between progressive
- [English Electric](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/english-electric/) - I have a love-hate relationship with a number of things. Technology. Grammar. And today's adversary: research. I love research because I get to learn new things (no, really, it’s that simple). I hate it because it’s a huge distraction, often dropping me down Internet rabbit-holes from which I only emerge hours later with a heap
- [Thank You (Again)](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/thank-you-again/) - On a day for giving thanks, I'll start with these two: Thanks to Riffraf Magazine and Richard Fulco for your faithful support, including the fresh post about Believe in Me that went up today as part of Richard's "Writers and Music" series. Thanks to you, the readers, for your comments here and over on the
- [We Are One Tonight](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/we-are-one-tonight/) - Buckle in: this is going to take a minute. As I've mentioned before, Tim Green spends a lot more time in Believe in Me contemplating things like faith and destiny than I had anticipated when I sat down to write the story. As much as he wants to rely on a rationalist approach to sorting
- [Paperback Writer](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/paperback-writer/) - Last time we talked about the music that fueled Believe in Me (Wampus, Nov. 29). This time we move from the inspiration to the perspiration part of the process—the research. It would of course have been handy if there had been a stadium-filling rock star among my immediate family and friends, but since there isn’t
- [Desire](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/desire/) - “Persistence,” a wise man once said to me, “is the whole ball of wax.” He was talking about finishing a novel, but the statement applies equally pretty much across the board. Almost everybody starts things; it’s the finishers we remember. And his statement is so right, so true—but also, in its boldness, incomplete. On these

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- [About 'Home Was a Dream'](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/about-home-was-a-dream/) - Three generations connected by music and haunted by secrets.Unnerved by his recent engagement and the prospect of parenthood, Tim Green, protagonist of Believe in Me and Never Break the Chain, digs further into his music-writer father’s past and stumbles onto a hidden legacy that has shaped his family for generations: his grandfather was a Holocaust
- [About 'Believe in Me'](https://www.jasonwarburg.com/about-believe-in-me/) - A page-turning tale of being and becoming, Believe in Me follows young campaign operative Tim Green, the grieving son of a recently deceased music writer, and charismatic, politically active rock singer Jordan Lee, leader of the arena-rock juggernaut Stormseye. From their meeting on a jet to a recording session to a sold-out stadium concert, Green and
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