Episode 20: Celebration of the Audiobook Release of ‘Searching for Jimmy Page’, with Melissa Connell and Dave Lewis
‘Searching for Jimmy Page’ Trailer
Melissa Connell
Melissa Connell is an actor whose credits span theater productions, TV commercials and roles on such shows as Comedy Central’s ‘Strangers With Candy’, ABC’s ‘One Life to Live’, and HBO’s ‘Sex and the City’, and film, including roles in the internationally and nationally award-winning independent film ‘Bathroom Troll’, the short film ‘Control’, and ‘AKA’, which took home “Best Film” at the NY Independent Film and Video Festival.
She’s also a singer, voice actor, private acting coach, and a national award-winning radio documentary producer. Her radio documentary ‘Tobacco: Filtering out the Truth’ won 1st place from the Philadelphia Press organization and the National Headliners group.
Melissa received her BA in Radio/TV/Film and her MA in Public Relations from Rowan University. Melissa also serves as an actor, writer, client care manager, facilitator and phone survey specialist for True To Life Training in Central New Jersey.
She resides in New Jersey with her two children, along with their crazy Labradoodle.
Dave Lewis
Dave Lewis is an expert on Led Zeppelin. He’s written extensively about the band, including the books ‘Led Zeppelin: A Celebration’, ‘The Complete Guide to the Music of Led Zeppelin’, ‘Feather in the Wind: Led Zeppelin Over Europe 1980’, ‘Evenings With Led Zeppelin: The Complete Concert Chronicle’, and more. In 2015 Dave contributed the liner notes to the official Led Zeppelin release ‘The Complete BBC Sessions’. He is also the editor of the Led Zeppelin fan magazine ‘Tight But Loose’, which he started in 1978 when he was all of 22 years old. The magazine reaches Led Zeppelin fans in over 30 countries across the world and tracks recent events in the world of Led Zeppelin, including interviews and news as well as updates on memorabilia and the latest bootleg news.
About This Episode
EPISODE SUMMARY:
My award-winning novel, ‘Searching for Jimmy Page’, the first literary novel to feature Led Zeppelin and Jimmy Page, was published in paperback, hardback, and Kindle by Livingston Press on October 20, 2021. You can still get the Kindle version on Amazon, and the paperback is available on Amazon and your local indie bookstores.
Now that the audiobook is out on Amazon, Audible, and iTunes, I feel like this journey I’ve been on with my book baby is almost complete.
In this episode, listen to Chapter One, then join me as I chat up Melissa Connell about her experience narrating the novel and, later, Dave Lewis about when he became a Led Zeppelin superfan and the evolution of his magazine, ‘Tight But Loose’.
You can also listen to this episode on YouTube.
If you want to hear more about the novel, check out Season 1 Episode 7 of Rock is Lit, when Margaret Bauer, Randall Martoccia, and Liza Wieland interview me about the book, then Danny Goldberg joins me to talk about working with Led Zeppelin in the 1970s as their PR man and Vice President of Swan Song Records.
VOICES IN INTRO SAYING “ ‘SEARCHING FOR JIMMY PAGE’ ” IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE:
· Kerry Robinson
· Allen Mendenhall from Southern Literary Review
· George Dionne from The Rock is George Podcast
· Jeff Jackson
LINKS:
Melissa Connell’s website: http://melissaconnell.com/
Melissa Connell on Facebook: @melissaconnell
Melissa Connell on Instagram: @melcat92
Dave Lewis on Facebook: @DaveLewis
‘Tight But Loose’ website: http://www.tightbutloose.co.uk/
Dave Lewis and Christy Alexander Hallberg
Melissa Connell
Christy Alexander Hallberg in her home study/Photo by Matt Peiken
Photo by Neal Preston of Jimmy Page at Kezar Stadium 1973, which is a major motif in the novel ‘Searching for Jimmy Page’/Used by permission from Neal Preston
