One Night Only

by SHELBY KNUDSEN

Overview

LONG LIVE ROCK AND ROLL. SKY BLACK has dedicated her life to making music. Through her difficult childhood and struggle with addiction, her band was the only thing that brought her joy. Just as her dream of playing to thousands of screaming fans might become a reality, she's dealt some devastating news. Everyone in her life tells her she has to quit - her sister, who's battling her own demons, and her mom, who shows up seeking forgiveness after abandoning the girls as children. But Sky's come this far and she won't give up now. The stage is the only place she's truly alive, so she chases her dream until she doesn't recognize it - or herself - anymore. When the fame machine is set in motion, there's no turning back. One Night Only is an intimately informed story detailing the intersection of art and success and - at its heart - a propulsive narrative about the relentless pursuit of a dream, no matter the cost.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781068850530
Publisher:	East Shore Books
Publication date:	07/09/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	394
File size:	883 KB

About the Author

SHELBY KNUDSEN has been a member of the all-female band Wild Honey for more than a decade. Her first novel, Mountain Girl, was an intense thriller about forbidden love and captivity. Her second novel, One Night Only, is an intimately told story that highlights the intersection or art and fame. She lives in Fernie, B.C. with her husband and daughters.

Table of Contents

A note for the reader:

The chapter titles in One Night Only are song titles. There is a complete playlist, including artists, at the back of the novel. Each song had a lyric or a vibe that resonated for me with what was going on in the chapter. This music has kept me company on the long days, inspiring both my life and my writing, as all art inspires more art. Thanks to all the artists who wrote, produced, and sang these songs.

Rock on,

Shelby

"I know, as an audience member, there's a certain thing that's going on for me during this ritual, anticipation, yes, but the instrument, the instrument being prepared, being perfected, being tuned, put into alignment, or allegiance and/or harmony with some kind of higher order in the world, a better order, somehow, with the wavelengths of all that is and all that can be good in the world... then, and this is my little brainstorm, so please forgive... in the build up of tension which has arisen during the tuning, then, in the guitar being donned, being "put on," between that and that first chord, the beginning of that first song, which is flight, which represents possibility and transcendence, in that gap, in that silence, oh I don't know Shelby, there is a kind of magic, the emergence of the possibilities which exist between instrument, player, and the audience member."

Mark Kusnir, when providing feedback for this novel.