PARDON the PREAMBLE, but PENGUIN has announced my PUBLICATION date! Louder than Love will drop, as we say in the music biz, on September 17th.

Since my debut novel has music (and fans) at its core, it’s still in keeping with my A to Z theme of the Music-Fan Connection…right?

PERHAPS I should PROVIDE a PREMISE? (or a blurb, as we say in the book biz)

LOUDER THAN LOVE –  Jessica Topper

The Dewey Decimal System places ‘Marriage and Family’ at 306.8 and ‘Death and Dying’ at 306.9 –

Do love and grief always go hand-in-hand?

 Katrina Lewis adores lists. Alphabetical, chronological, with bullet points – the levelheaded librarian delights in the order of things. But losing her husband in a freak train accident is information she’s unable to fully process. After locking it into a cerebral cabinet reserved for only her darkest thoughts, Katrina left Manhattan four years ago for the quirky comfort of Lauder Lake. Cocooned in her sleepy suburban hometown, she’s raising their daughter Abbey – a precocious preschooler who inherited her father’s eyes and his love of Beatles songs – and running her household like an underground bunker to protect it from any further disaster.

Reclusive rocker Adrian ‘Digger’ Graves barely escaped the 80s alive. He survived the implosion of his heavy metal career, but his muse has lain dormant for years – until Kat invites him to play at her local library, not on the basis of his impressive music credentials but rather, because of the obscure children’s television jingle he wrote as a lark years ago. In this chuckle-worthy case of ‘mistaken identity’, Adrian stumbles into the path of this captivating young widow and her comically lovable, PBS-obsessed daughter.

Using his tattooed torso as an illustrated reference, Adrian slowly begins to unfurl his former life for Kat, in all its shock rocker glory. Although he defies standard classification, Kat finds herself falling for him…but she still has her own past to wrestle with. To Adrian, she is like a desert flower; thorny but will some day bloom. Falling in love comes easy for Kat and Adrian, but will putting her ghosts and his demons to rest end up tearing these soul mates apart?

PLEASE forgive the PROMOTION, but in keeping with the letter of the day… PRE-SALE links have been PROVIDED.

Amazon for your Kindle

BN.com for your Nook

iTunes for your iBook

At just $4.99, it’s the PERFECT PRICE POINT!

PEACE out, and POWER to the PEN!