JOHN SLOMAN (Lone Star, Uriah Heep) has just released his 3rd book Rock Heaven , a novel . Rock Heaven is not autobiographical, according to John. “At the beginning of this year, I decided to adapt my original screenplay to a novel which is now currently available on Amazon under the title of my screenplay: ‘Rock Heaven’.”

John adds – “Rock Heaven was a screenplay I wrote in 2007. Had meetings with various producers who loved it. But the money never came. It’s about a rock musician…and a song titled ‘Rock Heaven’. But also much more. I wrote the title track, so at some point in the movie people would hear this song that’s referenced in the dialogue. It then occurred to me to write an entire soundtrack album. By now I was several years into this thing. I demoed the title track as well as all the other tracks for this soundtrack album at home. This time last year, I was in the process of writing what would’ve been my third book, when I decided to set it aside temporarily in favor of adapting Rock Heaven to a novel. My intention is to release Rock Heaven as a digital single, to provide a musical context for the book. If I receive some interest in my soundtrack album, I will consider releasing it at some point. For example, in the absence of a movie being made, I could release an audio version of Rock Heaven, which would include my ten songs.

Who knows, perhaps some film director scrolling on Amazon one night for an original story to bring to the screen might discover my novel, and my tale of woe becomes a movie after all.”

“At one point I adapted the screenplay as a 6-part TV series and sent it to a new production company based in Wales. Unfortunately, I didn’t even receive a response to my email, leaving me wondering if perhaps a Welsh writer basing a story around a Welsh musician wasn’t quite Welsh enough for a Welsh production company to be interested.”

ROCK HEAVEN is available on Amazon, at present (mine arrives tomorrow)

John also has resumed writing on the book he set aside for Rock Heaven, as well completing a new album to be released next spring.

Louis Deveroe is the resident music critic at a London based lifestyle magazine called XYZ Magazine and married to the much younger Gina. He should be happy. But the memory of that stinging rejection letter from Rolling Stone magazine all those years ago haunts him day and night – and he wishes he could find a story worthy of his superior writing ability so he can show those guys at Rolling Stone just how wrong they were. One night over dinner, his school teacher wife challenges her unfulfilled husband to change his life and pursue his dreams. And soon the story of a lifetime presents itself. But how far is Louis prepared to go in pursuit of that story? Would he smuggle a Class A drug into a psychiatric hospital in order to loosen the tongue of a disgraced rock star? Would he risk his life? There are three steps to Rock Heaven. But what is Rock Heaven? Where rock stars go when they die? Or where wannabes live in a medicated fog? The only one who really knows the answer is Louis…