The manuscript for my latest book is now with the publishers. The provisional title is: The Songs of Genesis: A Complete Guide to the Studio Recordings. It does what it says on the tin. It’s been twenty years in the making. I wrote an early version of the book way back at the start of the Millenium, not having written anything before. Having struggled to get interest from publishers back then, partly because the music scene had moved on from Genesis and probably largely because my book could have been better, I parked it.Over the last three years, I have sharpened it up, expanded it and got it to a finished state that I am happy with. McFarland, who published my first book The World of Shaft, were keen and are now going about formating and preparing the manuscript for publication. I’m hoping it will be out early next year.
In the meantime, Sticking It to the Man: Revolution and Counterculture in Pulp and Popular Fiction, 1950 to 1980 (edited by Andrew Nette and Iain McIntyre, published by PM Press), to which I have contributed a chapter on the Shaft books, is now due out in November.