I decided when I was 16 that I was going to be a novelist. I sold my first book when I was 46, so I’ve been chasing this dream for a while. My mom was a librarian, and so we had a very book-friendly culture. My mom and I still do this when I go home to visit: One of us will put down a book and the other one will pick it up and start reading it. We’re just constantly reading books and talking about them—and giving each other books. I grew up in rural Maine, which, at that point, was very closed-minded. I got completely ostracized. If I had been a guy, I would’ve been beat up all throughout high school.
― Sarah Tomlinson, Interview, The Creative Independent
What booksellers are saying about The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers
- With the plethora of Rock n’ Roll fiction that has come out these past few years it’s so nice to see a new take on the bad boy/scenester plotline so prevalent in pretty much all of them. Not that there isn’t some of that here but it comes early and quickly evolves into a novel of family, warts and all (what else? It is a rock n’ roll novel after all,) that turns the hedonism on its head as seen through the eyes of a most original narrator, a ghost writer hired to write the memoirs of two of the principal characters. Excellent!
― Pete Mock, McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro, North Carolina | Buy from Bookmiser
- Perfect for fans of Daisy Jones and The Six and Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. Loved the perspective of a ghost writer!
― Jessica Nock, Main Street Books, Davidson, North Carolina | Buy from Main Street Books
- Sex, drugs, rock and roll, and so much more! A super fun gallop through the shady history of a famous rock band and the mysterious death at the center of their rise to long term fame and adoration. The insights into the ghost writer’s craft and the complications of our own personal histories with the ultra famous and the songs that form the soundtrack to our lives make this more than a glossy read.
― Susan Williams, M. Judson, Booksellers, Greenville, South Carolina | Buy from M. Judson, Booksellers
About Sarah Tomlinson
Sarah Tomlinson, a former music journalist, has been a ghostwriter since 2008, penning more than twenty books, including five New York Times bestsellers. In 2015, she published the father-daughter memoir, Good Girl (Gallery Books). She wrote The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers, her first novel, in between assignments for a who’s who of celebrity clients.
