It’s official. I’m co-writing the Michael Sweet autobiography. This’ll be fun. After 2.5 hours of talking/interviewing, it already is. I believe I already have the lead-off story. It’s a good one. I’m confident I’ll use it to start the book – unless he tops that story with another one, of course. I’ve never written a biography before, but I’ve read several and most seem to start off at the present or a certain point in time as an introduction – almost as a reason why you’re reading the book – and then it goes back to the beginning. That’s the general idea I have at this early stage of writing the book. My plan is to cram all this work into a short, concentrated time and crank this book out soon.
What questions should I ask him? What stories should I get him to tell? What do you want to see in a “TELL ALL” Stryper autobiography by its frontman?
“…you don’t know what the future holds…” (lyrics from a song by a certain punk band. I won’t use any names, but their initials are Lust Control). Could book writing be my new career? I don’t know. It’s certainly too early to tell. I have written a novel (Desert High), which I’m confident is a good story and could be made into a movie. That’s my hope and dream for it. Perhaps this Michael Sweet book could be very successful. I hope so. We’ll see.
It’s cool being able to write a book about something that I know a lot about. I still plan on doing my share of research work, but it’s not like I have to start from scratch. This band is very much one of the major reasons why I’ve had a career as a magazine publisher for 26 years. If it wasn’t for this band and their faith in God, I doubt that Christian metal would not have been a phenomenon nor a bandwagon that I jumped on.
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