Books by Mitchell D Lopate

Suzy is a little girl who lives with her parents beside a big mountain. She never talks to anyone because she hears their thoughts in her head--and they can't hear her answering them. Inside the mountain live a group of amazing dragons: they are hiding from humans for hundreds of years. They create huge tunnels by eating rocks to visit their families in other countries. When a young boy dragon forgot to cover up the exit to the dragon home cave, Suzy and Goldie, a little girl dragon, meet one day by accident. They become friends and stay out late when they learn dragons hear human thoughts! But there's trouble when Suzy's father and Goldie's dragon father come looking for their missing children! A little human girl and a little dragon girl become heroes who help everyone make up a peaceful way to live and work together. Come join the adventure of their story--and learn about delicious-flavored gemstones (dragons think they are like candy!), a dragon-hosted heated swimming pool, and a dragon/human neighborhood cook-out barbeque!

How to make a rock & blues stew?Mix together with extreme caution and a touch of frenzy: an insatiable passion for the wild and dangerous smokin' steamy blues and gutsy rock 'n' roll; a healthy measure of renegade rebelliousness and rambunctious mischief; full-moon madness driven by the Zodiac and other Cosmic capers; a razor-sharp mind that splashes words like a paintball fight; a call for the open road and skies-and you have the ingredients for the music, the people, the backstage presence and the sights and sounds of Rock 'n' Blues Stew II. Follow what my friends call "Mitch-Tripping the Musical Universe" with the heroes, angels, and devils from the onstage and studio days of Derek and the Dominos, George Harrison, The Band, the J. Geils Band, Delaney and Bonnie & Friends with Eric Clapton, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Leo Kottke, Richard Thompson, Rory Block, Buddy Guy, and many others of voice and instrument.Here are some of the essays, interviews, and articles that brought me friendship and fun through the world of the music circuit and the artists who make it their life calling. From Nashville and Memphis to the Ozarks, down in the Mississippi Delta, Gadsden, AL, Macon, GA, Muscle Shoals, AL, or Red Bank and Asbury Park, NJ: if you play it, shake it, or just let it give you the groove, then drop in these stories and let it flow. It's a stew of rock and blues for your musical news. Living and loving large as a free-lance editor, travel with me to the homes and life stories, concert backstage rooms and sound studios, and the fame and glory of some famous and upcoming drummers, guitar players, vocalists and songwriters of our time-and the tales they have to tell.