Buy the paperback
- 5 years ago
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The Mockstars paperback is now available for purchase. Hoorah! Click here to buy your copy from Amazon. The eBook'[...]
Mockstars: out now!
- 6 years ago
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Ring the bells, sound the klaxons, bring out your dead etc - Mockstars is now available to buy for your Kindle, smartpho[...]
Book trailer released
- 6 years ago
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Today we released the book trailer for Mockstars. Take a look below! Mockstars is published as an eBook on 25 Jun[...]
#11WeeksOfRock
- 6 years ago
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We now have an official release date for Mockstars: Wednesday 25 June. Watch this space for eBook purchase links! In ce[...]
Revealed: cover image
- 7 years ago
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Ladies and gentlemen, I am dreadfully giddy to reveal the cover image for my upcoming debut novel, Mockstars. ...Ta-[...]
Mockstars to be published this summer
- 7 years ago
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I'm rather excited to announce that Mockstars will be published this summer by Red Button Publishing. As some of you [...]
Christopher signed up by top literary agency
- 7 years ago
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The journey to get my first novel published has been an interesting road so far, and things took an exciting turn this w[...]
Mockstars excerpt: "The A&R Man"
- 7 years ago
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Video excerpt from Mockstars. In "The A&R Man", Chris meets a talent scout from a major record label.
Mockstars live excerpt: "Posh Groupie"
- 7 years ago
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Chris tells the story of meeting Araminta - a well-heeled private school girl who has taken a shine to George - after th[...]
"Hilarious - it's The Inbetweeners meets Spinal Tap..." - Alex Marsh (author of Sex & Bowls) on Mockstars
- 7 years ago
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Alex Marsh found fame as one of the internet’s first prolific bloggers, which eventually led to the publication of his book Sex & Bowls & Rock and Roll: How I Swapped My Rock Dreams For Village Greens. As someone who knows what it’s like to admit that you’re never going to be quite as cool as Slash, Alex had this to say about Mockstars:
“Chris Russell stumbles around amidst the lunacy of the record business; a rabbit caught in the headlights staring aghast at what he sees. Hilarious – it’s The Inbetweeners meets Spinal Tap…”
"Induced three inner chuckles and one belly laugh in just over four minutes..." - Kevin Sampson (author of Powder) on Mockstars
- 7 years ago
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Kevin Sampson, a prolific British writer based in Merseyside, is perhaps best known for his iconic rock ‘n’ roll novel Powder, published in 1999. The fictional act portrayed in the book, the Grams – a drug-toting, Britpop guitar-machine – would quite likely beat the living buggery out of The Lightyears if the two bands were ever to fictionally meet.
Kevin rather kindly had this to say about Mockstars:
“Very funny, that! Induced three inner chuckles and one belly laugh in just over four minutes…”