“The Bird Is the Word” is a weekly series from Rare Bird Books’ authors, editors, and collaborators that offers a glimpse into the process of writing, creating, and publishing. This...

This week I appear on Pamela Des Barres’s podcast, “Pamela Des Barres’s Pajama Party,” to discuss the autobiography of her late best friend, legendary muse and former GTOs member Mercy...

Writer/musician Noah Lekas chatted with me at length for L.A. alt-culture gallery Lethal Amounts’ website about the posthumously published autobiography I wrote with/for the GTOs’ Mercy “Miss Mercy” Fontenot, Permanent...

I discuss the posthumously published Mercy “Miss Mercy” Fontenot autobiography I co-wrote, Permanent Damage: Memoirs of an Outrageous Girl, along with other highlights of my career, with Women’s International Music...

    ORDER HERE “There were definitely better known personalities than Mercy Fontenot in her time, but she was no less of a thrilling iconoclast for it. Long before unorthodox...

As part of the Grammy Museum’s Programs at Home, it was my immense honor to be joined by rock legend Alice Cooper, Arrow de Wilde of Starcrawler, original GTO Pamela Des Barres,...

Esteemed rock journalist Jim Farber wrote a lovely, in-depth feature for The Guardian about the posthumously published autobiography I wrote with/for the GTOs’ Mercy “Miss Mercy” Fontenot, Permanent Damage: Memoirs...

Bib Ruggiero interviewed me for a lovely, in-depth feature for Houston Press about the posthumously published autobiography I wrote with/for the GTOs’ Mercy “Miss Mercy” Fontenot, Permanent Damage: Memoirs of...