Lulu Marketplace

This is John Hovorka's first novel. It is about the rock and roll scene of the 1980's. Hippie Johnny, a local "rock star" in the medium-size city of Carthage, Ohio, decided to change his name to Johnny Wylde and seek his fortune far from home. At first, despite his immense creativity and his very good band, he could barely get as far as Indianapolis. He knew that his music was good enough to take him to the top, but he found that being excellent at what he did was not nearly enough to get him there. With great self-conscious effort, but also in ways he could have never foreseen, he took on the challenge of changing himself into the kind of person who could get the job done.