Krazee Mouse Blues: A Novella: Volume 1 (Unsung Heroes Triology) - Tapa blanda

When Danny Dowd - a spoiled, upper-class white kid - is kicked out of college AGAIN, his father decides to teach him that not everyone is born with a silver spoon, not to mention a new BMW and stock options. Sentenced to spend the summer performing manual labor at a shipyard, Danny comes face to face with people from all walks of life, including Clement Buchman, a bluesmen who claims to be the bastard son of Jimi Hendrix. At summer's end, when Danny planned to begin the semester at a new college, he opts instead to continue working at the shipyards; eventually, he joins Clement's band, The Blues Flames. Just before the Blue Flames compete in a battle-of-the-bands sponsored by a local radio station, an event that could change their lives, the police arrest their lead singer. Frustrated, their dreams dashed, Clement and George kidnap the radio station's mascot, a twenty-foot blow-up figure called "Krazee Mouse". Thus begins a year that will lead to love, drugs, music, more drugs, and finally, a strange sort of catharsis in the middle of the Mississippi River.

Herder has co-written a humor book ("Nuclear Chic") published by Pinnacle Books his short stories have been published in "St. Louis University Magazine," "The Pine Tree Review," "tattoohighway," and "AntiMuse" (which voted his short story "One of the Year's Best"). He has also worked with several Los Angeles production companies, developing screenplays. Two scripts ("Frog" and "Frogs"), which he co-write, were produced by Wonderworks for PBS. His novel "The Second Coming of Jesse James" was a finalist in Wilkes-Barre University's James Jones Novel Contest.