On Sale Now
Available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook:
Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, Audible, and Apple
Physics dropout, Dr. Brad Jorsen…
is rocked out of his hermit’s cabin in Crested Butte, Colorado when he saves Dr. Brenda Drake, a prominent physicist from the University of Michigan, in a high-profile hiking accident that kills many top-tier American physicists. A popular religious right-wing organization, in return for political control of the US government, secretly becomes the stiff-arm of an international conspiracy to control the next great power upgrade at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. Brenda is assigned as the lead American at CERN, where a new gravity particle with more power ever imagined is being propagated by the Russians—now at the helm, but under scrutiny from the West. Brad follows to Switzerland to protect Brenda and help decipher this new theory, where on top of Russian secrecy, he is met by a well-timed European tour of the leader of the deadly religious cult.
From 2019
Buy now in paperback or ebook format at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or support independent bookstores.
When Cowboy finds himself…
kicked out of graduate school by Nixon’s cuts to NASA, he turns to his first love of being a photographer and amateur filmmaker, trying to find his art in a world gone mad with Vietnam and police brutality. He also finds a way to smuggle marijuana from El Paso in a small Piper Tri-pacer airplane, and while attempting to unload a conspicuous amount of dope, Cowboy is introduced to several underground players in Ann Arbor. What ensues is the powerful one-two combo of drug money and a bunch of drop-out NASA engineers at the U of M producing the loudest PA system in the world.
With this new big sound, they create the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival and the 10 for 2 concerts—marking the end of marijuana persecution and the beginning of Rock & Roll political power. Out on the road, their one-of-a-kind arena sound system opens the door for Rock & Roll anthems like, “We’re an American Band,” by Michigan’s own Grand Funk Railroad. But when the war winds down, and Rock & Roll gets too slick and selfish, Cowboy is left with no place to go, looking for enough money to support the artist he wants to be.
Short trailer that sets the stage for Norm’s new novel. The full documentary, “Ann Arbor Summer ’70,” is a time capsule of the Free Summer Park Concerts and the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival during the summer and fall of that pivotal year.
Follow Norm
Look inside the book with “Sometimes…” videos hosted by Warlock Productions. Follow Norm on Facebook for news on this new book and beyond.
Norm’s “Sometimes…” Spotify Playlists
Listen while you read!
Dip in with the original list, 16 songs that start the chapters of the novel: Grand Funk Railroad, Jimi Hendrix, Chicago….
Move on to Cowboy’s Driving Trip, 25 songs of Peace, Love, and Raunchy Humor….