Blue Room Books signs
Joey Huffman to book deal

Top: Huffman in concert
Bottom: Huffman and Durden

Blue Room Books is pleased to announce the signing of Joey Huffman, 58, to a book deal. Release of East to the Sun: Memories From the Life of an Accidental Rock Star is planned in 2022.

 Decatur, Ga | February 3, 2021

Blue Room Books, located in Decatur, Georgia, is pleased to announce the signing of Joey Huffman, 58, to a book deal. The title is East to the Sun: Memories From the Life of an Accidental Rock Star. Release of the book is planned for 2022.

The albums, artists, songs, and travel are mere punctuations in the life of a complicated man who is an insightful poet at heart and fueled by the mind of a brilliant raconteur. Joey Huffman, diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2014, began writing popular long-form vignettes of his life, posting some on his Facebook page.

Publisher Jeff Clark wrote in the January 2021 print edition of his magazine Stomp and Stammer, “Better Use of Your Time Than Livestreams: Joey Huffman’s autobiographical Facebook posts…read like chapters from a book — which hopefully they’ll one day become.”

“Joey and I had lunch a few years ago during which he told me of the stories he was beginning to write,” publisher Angela K. Durden recalls. “I was fascinated by his ability to tell a story with such blunt honesty yet keeping a beautiful turn of phrase. He has a unique voice that we love.” In 2020, Durden offered to publish his book.

Book editing and design is now in process and Mr. Clark’s wish is coming true.

Joey said, “I am very pleased and a little bit over-whelmed at having this book published. So many have told me to do it, but making it happen isn’t a straightforward process. I’m so happy to have signed with Angela Durden and her company.”

 

Bands and solo artists Huffman have played in/for: Matchbox Twenty, Soul Asylum, Isaac Hayes, Steven Tyler, Hank Williams Jr., Lynyrd Skynyrd, Indigo Girls, Witness, Michelle Malone and Drag the River, The Hellhounds, Keith Richards & the Expensive Winos (keyboard tech), Izzy Stradlin, Drivin’ n Cryin’, The Georgia Satellites, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Burns & Poe, Butch Walker, and more. Huffman specializes in piano, Hammond organ, and vintage keyboards. He is also a producer, engineer, and songwriter.

 

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Philip Haney: Careful and cautious; never a quitter.

by Angela K. Durden

The Most Brilliant Woman in the World

Citizen Journalist.  Novelist. Author of other stuff. 

Business writer.  Songwriter.  Protecting creator's copyrights. 

I knew Philip Haney. He wrote the foreword to the book by Jedwin Smith that I edited and published called "I AM ISRAEL — Lions and Lambs of the Land". Jedwin and I had lunch with Phil in Downtown Decatur one day. The conversation was great. We were all having such a good time. Not often I've had opportunity to converse with a man of such brilliance and integrity.

While working with him on the foreword to the book, we spoke often on the phone and emailed edits and tweaks back and forth. He always laughed when I said, "Philip, you're wrong, here's why, and you should change it." I'd make my case for his choice of word or phrasing and how it could be misconstrued or made much clearer. He always made the change.

When he spoke to Jedwin, he always called me Firebrand. That made me laugh. He wasn't afraid of much, but he was afraid of me! Even now in my grief, I smile at the memory. I will miss him.

He had recently been widowed when his wife, Francesca, died after very long being ill. She was the love of his life. However, he was still very busy and engaged with projects for agencies that dealt in national security.

He was outspoken against both the Bush and Obama administrations and how political correctness and the Deep State allowed terrorists to get a foothold in the U.S. He tracked funding to U.S.-based cells and could prove where it came from and to whom it went. His book "See Something. Say Nothing." documents what the Deep State attempted to do to shut him up.

Philip Haney was a man of God who loved life in all its many iterations. It would never have entered his mind to kill himself.

However, his life was in danger and he kept on the move. He was careful. He was cautious. But he was not a quitter. Philip Haney did not kill himself.

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