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Book SynopsisWhen the Hits Hit the Fan marries the process of songwriting, and living a songwriter's life, with humor and empathy. It unravels the mystery, science, and livelihood behind the rapidly evolving art of songwriting, but ends up revealing just as much about who we, the listeners, are, and where we may be going. These are lessons and tools Mike Errico has honed over years of writing, performing, teaching, and mentoring. This is a book for songwriters, future content creators, music lovers, and all the rest of us who are dying to know how popular art forms are able to touch us so deeply.
Think Stephen King's On Writing and Mary Karr's The Art of the Memoir, for the songwriter, meets books that are a result of that writing, like Alan Light''s The Holy and the Broken and Jacob Slichter''s So You Wanna Be a Rock and Roll Star, to books about the industry, John Seabrook''s The Song Machine and Derek Thompson''s Hit Makers, and finally, experimental love letters to the art form like R
