I am very excited to say that several people have downloaded "The Carpenters Online Interviews" from the Lulu.com website.
For those of you who have not yet checked it out the book contains the following interviews:
Randy Sparks (writer of (A Place To) Hideaway)
Dee Long (from the band Klaatu - Calling Occupants...)
Steve Eaton (writer of All You Get From Love Is A Love Song)
Palma Pascale (writer of Love Me For What I Am and honorary friend of Carpenters Avenue)
Randy Schmidt (editor of the book Yesterday Once More: Memories of the Carpenters and Their Music)
Leo Bonaventura (author of the book Leave Yesterday Behind) - includes an update with some very interesting information not included in the original interview
Chris Christian (writer of (Want You) Back In My Life Again)
Rob Mounsey (writer of Guess I Just Lost My Head, keyboards and arranger on KC solo)
Liberty DeVitto (drums on KC solo)
Russell Javors (writer of All Because Of You, Still In Love With You and Truly You, guitars and arranger on KC solo) - includes a short update not included in the original interview.
Louis Johnson (new never before published interview - bass player on KC solo)
Larry Herbstritt (new never before published interview - writer of the songs I Just Fall In Love Again from the album Passage and If I Had You from Karen's solo album)
There are also two short interviews with Carpenters fans from the Carpenters Avenue forum - Enigma (from Canada) and Ming (from Hong Kong)
The book contains a preface to describe the book and how some of the interviews came to realization. There are introductions for each interview along with a lead-in to the Karen Carpenter solo interviews.
If you wish to take a look at the book for a preview you can find it through the link below:
www.lulu.com/content/e-book/the-carpenters-online-interviews/7655591For those of you who read e-book in the Kindle format the book will be available through Amazon.com with in two days. I will provide a link when it is released.
