The unraveling of eighteen-year-old Luna Kane’s haunted past begins in the winter of 1988, when her dying great-grandfather, a self-proclaimed faith healer, claims he hears phantom owls crying in the night. “ ‘Them owls, like music. Can you hear the music?’ ” he implores her in his final moments, triggering Luna’s repressed memory of her dead mother’s obsession with Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin’s legendary guitar wizard. Desperate to learn the truth about her mother’s suicide, to tease fact from family lore to weave her own personal narrative, Luna embarks on a pilgrimage from her family’s farm in the pines of eastern North Carolina to England, to search for the man whose music her mother held sacred. Searching for Jimmy Page is a story about grief and identity and the power of art and music and how they connect us to others and ourselves.

Paperback available on Amazon or your local indie bookstore. Audiobook available on Amazon, Audible, iTunes.

Searching For Jimmy Page - Chapter 1

Rock is Lit EP Celebrating the Audiobook Release of My Novel, 'Searching for Jimmy Page'. I talk with Melissa Connell about the terrific job she did narrating it, then Led Zeppelin legend Dave Lewis joins me to talk about Led Zeppelin.

Rock is Lit: EP Celebrating the Audiobook Release of 'Searching for Jimmy Page'

In each episode, host Christy Alexander Hallberg, author of the award-winning rock novel Searching for Jimmy Page, interviews authors about craft and the musical inspiration behind their work, then brings in music experts, like Pamela Des Barres (EP17), in separate segments to add real-world context to the bands or musical periods featured in the novels. 

The podcast runs the gamut from bestselling and critically acclaimed novels like Janet Fitch’s Paint It Black and Dana Spiotta’s National Book Award-nominated Eat the Document to cult classics like Rex Weiner’s The (Original) Adventures of Ford Fairlane to science fiction rock novels like Sarah Pinsker’s A Song For A New Day to YA LGBTQ debuts like Jessamyn Violet’s Secret Rules to Being a Rockstar to celebrity rock novels like the legendary Suzi Quatro’s The Hurricane. Bibliofiles and fans of grunge, blues, classic rock, punk, pop, and pretty much every other rock music subgenre will find something enthralling in each show. 

Rock is Lit is a proud member of the Pantheon Podcast Network. 

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Rock is Lit Podcast Trailer--Sept 2022

Christy Alexander Hallberg is the author of the award-winning novel Searching for Jimmy Page (Livingston Press, 2021) and host of Rock is Lit, the first and only podcast devoted to rock novels, from Pantheon Podcast Network. She is a Teaching Professor of English at East Carolina University and serves as Senior Associate Editor of North Carolina Literary Review. Her fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, and interviews have appeared in many journals, including storySouth, Still: The Journal, Fiction Southeast, and Eclectica. Find her at www.christyalexanderhallberg.com/ and on Twitter/Instagram/YouTube @ChristyHallberg.

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